Keyword Ranking Report: does the organic traffic data take into account visitors logged into Google?
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Hi there
In Google Analytics, if a visitor to your website is logged into Google at the time of searching, the referral keyword is registered as 'unknown'.
So, I am curious as to how the traffic data for any given keyword in my campaign is calculated?
Thanks
Laurie
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There are some methods. If you can get somebody to log into with a law style login. Mail chimp used to have a system that works very well. If you can get them to login with Google, twitter, etc. you will get a lot of good information about what they have done this essentially lets the person logging into your site registering give up their rights of privacy and not totally but somewhat and in many cases you will be able to see those "SSL hidden keywords."
Here's more information I hope this helps you
https://developers.google.com/accounts/
https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OpenID
https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2Login
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/OpenID+plugin
I hope this is a help to you sincerely,
Thomas
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The traffic data is extracted from Analytics, therefore if Google is sending you traffic with the keyword hidden/removed/not provided, Moz can't also know, therefore that traffic numbers only reflect what Analytics says.
If a visitor comes from Google but with the keyword stripped, it is still a search visitor, but not counted on any keyword, both under Moz or Analytics.
You could decrease the "not provided" hits by using SSL on on pages (to be able to count SOME of the hits from logged in or HTTPS searches) but even doing that, Google is stripping the keyword, and soon we won't know which ones are actually being searched.
The moat accurate report you can get on Keywords (search, clicks, CTR, etc) is Webmaster Tools.
Hope that helps!
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