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Not for signed in users: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-search-more-sec...

  To help you better identify the signed in user organic
  search visits, we created the token “(not provided)”
  within Organic Search Traffic Keyword reporting. You
  will continue to see referrals without any change; only
  the queries for signed in user visits will be affected.
  Note that “cpc” paid search data is not affected.

This will make it much more difficult to measure organic search marketing efforts, but for Google, this should encourage more investment in paid marketing campaigns to measure keyword effectiveness.


...so I no longer get to see which queries brought users to our site? (we get a lot of organic search results, not from spam, but reasonably) Ouch.




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