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Showing posts with label google se0 help. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Not Provided vs. Not Set in Google Analytics

What is the difference between Not Provided and Not Set under the keywords section in Google Analytics?

Answer:

Not Provided occurs when a user is browsing on an encrypted URL at Google.com. If you are logged in to your Google+ account, you will automatically be on https://. This means the more users that use Google+, the more you will not be able to see what keywords brought them to your website.

Not Set is simply a referral or direct visit with no keywords that are allowed to be passed. Sometimes a user can search from their browser and end up on the site and this may propagate (Not Set).

Tip:

You can click (not provided) and view the landing pages as a secondary dimension to at least figure out what pages are being viewed the most. You could also compare this to the known organic keyword traffic and attribute a estimated percentage in distribution to each known organic keyword.

Click to Enlarge - You could also do unique page views for increased accuracy to attribute to other relateed keywords for each individual content page.