Question on 100% 'not provided' what are people seeing?
-
I've been curious what other SEO professionals have been seeing in their own analytics since the industry news came out that Google has gone to "100% not provided." I've definitely seen a steady rise in 'not provided' data across the board since about July but no sudden spikes and still not 100%.
Looking at one specific website this morning for the month of October to date in GA, and segmenting out organic traffic from just Google, I'm seeing about 85% not provided. Looking at just today (Monday) it is 88%. So over time it is definitely trending up, and I expect it will be greater than 90% by the end of October. Just curious if that is consistent with what others are seeing? Has anyone truly gotten to 100% of Google Organic traffic at 100%?
-
Thanks for looking into this IrvCo,
I am using clicky.com
-
Actually I see a very similar breakdown of Google as a referrer and direct traffic for safari as a segment in my Google Analytics as I see for my total traffic so I do believe GA is reporting the referrer correctly for Safari. I have no idea if Safari specifically has more of an issue with "not provided" but I do know that Chrome has been particularly bad all year since it started treating any search made in the address bar as a secure search by default. Maybe Safari does too, I don't know. But the traffic is at least attributed back to Google organic as a referrer, not direct, in my analytics.
Just curious what analytics solution you use? I've been a long time Omniture user and just recently started using GA (not by choice). I was definitely seeing issues with the way Adobe was classifying and under reporting not provided searches from Chrome due to this issue!
-
Thank you, Daniel.
I just checked and mine looks like IOS too. Glad you figured it out.
-
I got a site with 98% (not provided)... Overall among 28 sites that I checked I got a 87% avg.... But the trend line it's exponential on the las 10 weeks.
EGOL I've checked what you said about Safari traffic, I'm using GA and got as well a lot of direct traffic, however 95% was from IOS devices.... maybe the issue it's related to only mobile devices?
Dan
-
Most of my traffic from Google is now [not provided].
Another problem is that lots of Safari browser versions are passing very little information. No query terms and no referrer - so they look like direct traffic. In my opinion, about 1/2 of my Safari traffic is without query terms and referrers. (Go look at your analytics for safari and you will see same thing I think.... * I don't use Google Analytics so you might see something slightly different *)
I am also suspicious that some Google traffic is appearing as direct.
-
I haven't seen 100 yet, but I too have seen a rise since July.
-
This site should prove helpful:
http://www.notprovidedcount.com/
and of course what you can do:
http://moz.com/blog/100-percent-keyword-not-provided-whiteboard-tuesday
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
What's on your ultimate online marketing wish list?
Hi everyone! I'm one of Distilled's new online marketing analysts and will be writing my first blog post for them right before Christmas! I'm thinking about writing a post that combines the holiday spirit with what we all wish Google would give us. So fine people of Moz Q&A, tell me, if you could have anything from Google, no matter how ridiculous, what would it be and why? Any great quotes may even be featured in the blog post itself and attributed to you! Thanks everyone and happy Friday!
Industry News | | MorganChessman0 -
Now that Google is no longer publicly displaying Page Rank updates, how will this effect Moz's ability to calculate DA and PA?
Hi, How much more important do you guys think that Moz's Page Authority and Domain Authority metrics are going to become now that Google has stopped giving people public access to a site or pages Page Rank? And how accurate is PA and DA as a measurement in comparison to Page Rank..so for example if I was seeking a guestposting opportunity and saw a site as having a PR of 4....if I now looked to Moz's Page and Domain Authority metrics instead...would that still give me equivalent information on the strength of that domain and thus make a judgement on whether it will be a worthy site for a guestpost.. I guess what I am asking is, how close is now looking at Moz's metrics (ie. a third party company) to the info on PageRank that was being updated by Google themselves? Also will the lack of updated public PR info from Google effect the ability for Moz to calculate PA and DA?? Look forward to your replies on this,
Industry News | | sanj50500 -
Using 'Pipes' for Page Titles
A couple of years ago I was told to take off the 'pipes' for my page titles. To be more organic ....now I am being told it is best to put them back. For example I just read it is a good idea to do the following: 'Using pipes to separate these words would look like: SEO Company | Franchise Services | Higher Visibility Although this might not be the creative title you’re used to seeing on blogs, it’s a title that is incredibly optimized for Google (yet it still lets readers know what they can expect).' Should I replace the titles of my poor performing pages, with the common format which I am told is: Page Branding | keyword 1 |keyword 2 or keyword 1 | keyword 2 | Page branding. And I should keep the piping. Any opinions?
Industry News | | Llanero0 -
What are other SEO's calling themselves now?
I am piggy backing off of Rand's latest Whiteboard Friday: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/why-we-cant-just-be-seos-anymore-whiteboard-friday (It is an awesome post if you haven't checked it out yet.) I just want to hear some feedback from other industry professionals. Have you started defining/communicating your business as more than just, I do SEO? If so, what are you calling yourselves now and why? How has that been working out for you?
Industry News | | VentaMarketing1 -
Can't seem to submit my xml sitemap to Baidu, can someone help?
Hello Mozers and SEM's, I'm sure all of you know and understand the importance of uploading your sitemap to search engines. Once search engine in particular is Baidu. For some reason, i can't find a way to submit my link www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml. For Google, Bing, and Yandex it was easy, but Baidu is giving me problems. Don't tell me to "wait until they crawl your site", i have over 1000+ pages of unique content that those other 3 search engines found because of my sitemap; Baidu can't be that slow. Their robots only found 147 pages. 😞 If you take a look at the image attachment, you can see why I'm stuck, i can't read chinese! (and it's an image, so i couldn't translate it). Has anybody had any luck submitting their .xml link into Baidu? Can someone walk me through it? Let me know! Shawn xILP69w
Industry News | | Shawn1240 -
New TLD's released Jan 1st 2013\. Who's in ?
Hey Mozzers, Auctions for new top level domains (examples of top level domains are: .com, .net, .info, .org etc) concluded in the summer and will become available from january 1st. Did anybody bid/buy a new tld or know someone who did? And who has plans to register new exact match domains? My hobby is poker and i have a big passion for it so im already thinking about .poker domains. play.poker, texasholdem.poker etc. Here is an overview with TLD's that will come available:|
Industry News | | PrizeWize
http://www.newgtldsite.com/new-gtld-list/ I also like .amsterdam (my home town) as TLD. What are your thoughts on this? I haven't heard or read much about this in the SEO community so im interested in getting a discussion started.0 -
Google's Current Wave of Updates (4/24 edition)
Edit: Someone beat me to the punch, here is the thread: http://www.seomoz.org/q/google-webspam-algo-update-24-4-12 Let's just discuss it there. So Google has said they are doing another wave of algorithm updates that could impact anywhere from 3-5% of SERPs. I saw it here: http://searchengineland.com/google-launches-update-targeting-webspam-in-search-results-119295 http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/04/another-step-to-reward-high-quality.html Has anyone seen any changes? I've heard from a few friends that their sites are bouncing all over the place, which seems to happy a lot during these updates. We might not actually know the fallout for a few days/weeks/months. I saw a few of my smaller sites take a hit, but most of mine have stayed the same. Anyway what do you guys think? Sometimes an update like this can be a wake-up call to people who think they are doing white hat stuff but may be pushing the envelope a bit too much. Thoughts?
Industry News | | vforvinnie0 -
Who would you like to ask a SEO question the most?
I was wondering about which people in the industry you'd like to ask a question the most in the q&a? On my list is Matt Cutts (obviously), Marshall Simmonds, Jimmy Wales and Biz Stone.
Industry News | | ThomasHgenhaven0