Why isn't Google showing the first keyword result in Analytics anymore?
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Just checked my Google Analytics traffic sources under organic search and it dosen't display the first keyword, it says "not provided"
is there another way of determining the #1 organic searched keyword that my site was found under?
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(not provided) is probably not going away unfortunately. With secured search being the default now, and with Firefox switching it's search to SSL, the percentage of (not provided) will certainly be increasing.
@Randy Beck - there's no way around this for organic search. Any organic Google searches that come to your website from a user who is logged into their Google account will display (not provided) - you can still see logged in users keyword referral data from any AdWords campaign though.
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I thought this was due to users being signed in to Google when searching for terms and as a result Google doesn't provide this data in analytics.
I'm not sure if there are any plans on this changing down the line...
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Here is a good article on it.
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/how-to-analyze-google-analytics-not-provided-data
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