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Emil	10-19-2011 05:41 AM

Google: No more info about the referer keywords

Google is now going to make SSL default for signed in users so we wont be able to get the query-keyword out of the referer-string.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/...re-secure.html

Isn't that great. :disgust

cherrylula

10-19-2011 05:42 AM

They are fighting facebook for control of the internet, not a surprise they'd do something like this. It's their business info to make private, but yeah it pretty much sucks ass.

martinsc

10-19-2011 05:44 AM

:Oh crap

signupdamnit

10-19-2011 05:57 AM

At least the article states it will still be available in webmaster tools. Up to the top 1000 phrases.

Emil	10-19-2011 05:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by signupdamnit (Post 18500851)

At least the article states it will still be available in webmaster tools. Up to the top 1000 phrases.

Yeah, forcing us to use their shit.

cherrylula

10-19-2011 06:01 AM

well there you go.... yeah google analytics pretty much sucks, but not useless.

seeandsee

10-19-2011 06:02 AM

so i will now need to use their tools to see kws, sure...

signupdamnit

10-19-2011 06:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emil (Post 18500854)

Yeah, forcing us to use their shit.

True, true. I only registered one site with them. I'm not registering the rest. I guess we can just use a multiplier to try to guess what the real stats are per keyword based on the ones we can see? So if it shows 500 hits for a keyword and on average only a third is shown due to the change we can estimate we got around 1500 queries for that keyword. Stats software should do this automatically from here on out?

TheDoc

10-19-2011 06:15 AM

The SSL is for Wifi... so the connection is encrypted, so people can't drive around and lift your history basically.

I've use https WEB google for a long time, as long as a page passes the google query through, anything can capture the query in the url.

Barry-xlovecam

10-19-2011 07:05 AM

I can currently track every keyword in the Urchin Program I recommended that we buy from Google for $10,000 6 months ago -- now they make an important part of the program worthless. I will have to consider cutting my AdWords expenditures now that I don't get the tracking data to justify the AdWords buys.

This kind of asinine policy will just drive people to advertise and optimize for other search engines. Piss your customer off and drive them to the competition -- taking lessons from the Bank of America Google?

This is why oligopolies are evil.

Google sends no referrals with personally identifiable information. The Google idiots just dried up the source of keyword tracking that drives their AdWord purchases ... Congratulations arrogant idiots...

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