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(Entry was posted by Operation Technology on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 09/24/2013).

Has anyone else notice "Not Provided" jump in their Google Analytics?

Anyone else notice "Not Provided" jump in their Google Analytics? We`re up to over 80% not provided now for keywords and others have noticed a huge spike in "Not Provided" also. Sigh...
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YOUR ANSWERS

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

  • Clayton Nichols: You're going to see even more as Mobile begins to dominate the search. ;
  • Rob Wagner: +Alistair Lattimore ;warned us a week ago that this was coming. Nice call Alistair.
  • Alistair Lattimore: Google have been making changes since the last week of August but it wasn't clear with the ebbs & flows of our traffic what was happening until a fortnight ago.

    Now that more data is in, its clear what is happening and Danny Sullivan has confirmed with Google in a SEL article that they are indeed rolling this out more broadly. ;

    If the current rate of growth we're seeing in our data holds, we should see close to 100% in ~4-5 weeks.

    Ouch.
  • S?awomir Zdunek: In my account I see over 90% of not provided keywords. The good thing is that we can still see search queries in Google Webmaster Tools as well as in AdWords accounts. I think a number of people can turn back on GA unless Google introduces paid version where you can have access to keywords data. (That's a pretty good idea, I guess :)
  • Operation Technology: +Sławomir Zdunek I'd gladly pay a bit for the keyword data that led to clicks. And the lolz goes to >> Cutts was quick to respond that it was estimated that the amount of "(not provided)" visits "even at full roll-out ... would still be in the single-digit percentages of all Google searchers on Google.com."

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