Any reaction to the announcement from Google that 'signed in' searches won't pass through search query info to analytics?
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Seems like SEO is about to get that much harder:
http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-search-more-secure-accessing.html
Any thoughts on this?
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Yes i spend most of my time logged out, but every now again I am suprised to see my rankings skyrocket, then disapointment sets in when i realize I am loged in with web history on.
what has not been made clear is if the missing stats will be in Premium Analytics?
And is it true that Premium will cost 150K a year?
And will SeoMoz decide they too can charge more?
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However, it might be the other way around. My mom visiting a site may be more likely to be logged into gmail and thus logged into Google than I as an SEO. I have one browser that I use just for Google tools (gmail, analytics, etc.) and Facebook. I do all of my other surfing in another browser where I am not logged in. In any case, we're at least more aware of if we are logged in than the regular population. Whether that leads us to be logged in more when we casually surf or less I don't know.
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I know that they're saying this will only affect a single-digit percentage of organic searches, but isn't it plausible that in certain niches or communities it could take away a much larger portion of keyword data. Any SEO blog might be a good example. I would hypothesize that the average SEOmoz visitor is more likely to have a Google account (and be signed in) than a visitor to, say, MarthaStewart.com. Could this be a bigger blow to some websites' analytics data than Google is letting on?
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Bing!
I am pretty well pro Microsoft. But i do truly believe bing a better search engine. Better Results, less junk. Better WMT, and i always rank better in bing. I would like to see a comparison on ranking factors, but i believe bing likes clean code sites.
I am also suprised how few a people on this group are hosted on windows servers or have sites built in Microsoft technologies. Is it the Moz in SeoMoz that attacts mozilla people?
any one know how much Premium Analtytics will cost, I read an article that it can cost up to $10,000 a month others suggest $150,000 a year. I hope Microsoft bring out a free analytics
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Not so much difficult as making it less direct and leaving more to extrapolate or to be tested.
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I think the sentiments shared in the comments to the article you linked shares the sentiments of the community. I am laughing now because it is pretty clear what Alan's google name is based on the feedback
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The link worked, i read the article, it just gave me a chance to vent my speen about search term changes.
I am really losing faith in google, google adds has generated vast amount of useless sites full of google adds after ppc. They have become too powerfull and bossy.
Is this desiged to get peopel to pay for premium analytics? i much prefer Bing as a search engine,
Lets hope that Bing gains enouth market share to make google respect the users a bit more.
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Thanks, although their blog is even more worrying as they'll be stripping all info from searches where the user is signed into google.. (Will try to post the link properly this time)
http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-search-more-secure-accessing.html
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I have notived that Google now somtimes changes your search term without asking. In stead of simply suggesting did you mean blah blah, it just changes your search. I have a site that becomes unfindable becauce of this. It seems very rude. This also make a mockery of statistics
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I have notived that Google now somtimes changes your search term without asking. In stead of simply suggesting did you mean blah blah, it just changes your search. I have a site that becomes unfindable becauce of this. It seems very rude. This also make a mockery of statistics
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