Any updates regarding 'not provided' organic keyword referrals in Google Analytics?

[nsauser]

I know that the encrypted searches done by people logged into their Google accounts is causing the error, is there any workaround or any update from Google as to IF they will give us our keyword data back?

I'm currently losing data on about 20% of my daily searches . . .

[VistageSEO]

"luckily", we've only lost about 8% of our data. But I fully expect that number to increase as should everyone else.

[SL_SEM]

Yep.

I was hoping it would stay a small percentage, but our users are more tech savvy so they are usually logged in to google. Now any segmenting I was doing of organic traffic based off of keyword is not nearly as solid as it was, and I hate playing guessing games.

Especially when I didn't have to do that previously. It is a step backward for online marketing.

[nsauser]

Thanks for your reply. Thanks also for the resources and citations you provided.

Crazy thing about it is that all that data is gone, since Google controls it there won't be a work around or other service to use. Google swings with a heavy hand.

[SL_SEM]

In short, this is not an error it is a security feature. You can check out Google's initial blog post about this here:

http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-search-more-secure-accessing.html

They do not currently plan on providing that data anymore, and it doesn't look like that will change any time soon based on Matt Cutts' response to Rand's latest post about the number Cutt's presented in the article being WAY off.

"@__randfish__ we looked at all the data (not just a sample of 5K sites) before launch, and my estimate was and remains accurate." - Matt Cutts

So the answer is "it's not an error, and they will not be giving you the data back"