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Google Analytics [NOT PROVIDED] Anything you can do?

by manicmethods
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Maybe I'm unlucky, but I've got a website that is getting around 90% of it's traffic from Organic Search Results but 75% of this traffic is coming through with [NOT PROVIDED]

I know what this means etc but is there any way to get around this. A hack or something.

Because I literally have no idea what terms my site is ranking for to get this traffic.

We're also not talking 10, 20 visitors a day from this. We're talking a few hundred.

Just frustrating me.
#analytics #google #provided
  • Profile picture of the author Jamie Hudson
    Yeah - It's frustrating. First I wouldn't use Google Analytics - use Get Clicky, the paid version.

    With get clicky I get on average 30% not provided, test it out. For some reason I get less not provided with Get Clicky, at least twice as many not provided with analytics.
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  • Profile picture of the author elexmedia
    You could try other analytics softwares. There's a lot of other alternatives besides Google Analytics. I think Google Analytics is not the best, it's just the most well-known.

    Here's other alternative that you could try:
    1. W3Counter
    2. StatCounter
    3. Histats
    4. Woopra
    5. Reinvigorate
    6. Haveamint
    7. GetClicky
    8. CrazyEgg
    9. Chartbeat
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  • Profile picture of the author Jordan Kovats
    Bing Just released their Webmaster Tools last week. Besides the complaints of the user interface....try that. I have not tried it, now know if it is privy to google data as far as search terms are concerned.
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  • Profile picture of the author manicmethods
    OK. I'll load up another type of analytics onto the site, and compare results. Get Clicky seems to be highly recommended elsewhere so I'll try that.
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  • Profile picture of the author C Rebecca
    You can get some idea by going to Traffic Sources: Sources: Search: Organic and selecting "landing page" as the secondary dimension.

    That way, you can see what pages (not provided) traffic is landing on and try to infer an approximation of the keywords that way.

    As far as I know, there's no way to find the exact keyword. And I'm not sure that there should be.
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  • Profile picture of the author markowe
    Yeah, this is becoming a real problem - I wrote a blog post about that here:

    What’s this “&esrc=s” in my Google referrer strings? You may be shocked! | The Word Bay

    (it's the same issue, read the whole article, it explains about Analytics as well)

    Unfortunately, changing stats programs will NOT help even a tiny bit. The problem is that GOOGLE has stopped sending referring keywords for people who are logged into Google when they search. In some niches like IM or tech niches I am getting more than 50% of my searches shown as (not provided)!! And it's growing all the time.

    This is going to be a real problem one day, but for now, think of it like this: as long as you are still seeing 50% of your keywords referrer strings, and you get a reasonable amount of traffic, you have plenty of data to go on. If your top KNOWN keyword is "blue widgets", representing, say 20% of your traffic, then you can reasonable guess that 20% of your "not provided" keywords are also "blue widgets", so you are not REALLY missing out on that basic data, except on low-traffic, long-tail keywords, but they kinda don't matter so much anyway.
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