by Brian Clifton | Feb 1, 2013 | SEO & Analytics
If you are active with search engine optimisation (SEO), then you will be aware of the issue of “not provided” showing in your Google Analytics reports for organic visits. To quickly summarise, in October 2011 Google implemented a change to how searches...
by Brian Clifton | Oct 19, 2011 | Data Understanding, GDPR & Privacy, SEO & Analytics
An odd announcement form the GA product team was made last night that affects all users of web analytics tools: When a signed in user visits your site from an organic Google search, Google Analytics will no longer report the query terms that the user searched on to...
by Brian Clifton | Dec 15, 2009 | SEO & Analytics, xPlugins & Hacks - Deprecated!
Google Analytics recognises 41 search engines by default. Although this is constantly being added to, there are of course a great many other search engines in the world – language and region specific, as well as price comparison and vertical portals. This hack...
by Brian Clifton | Jun 6, 2009 | SEO & Analytics
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) has been a part of my background since starting my career in the digital industry (since 1997). In fact it remains a major part of working with clients, though now social media is a bigger part of the mix. Hence I still speak at...
by Brian Clifton | Jun 4, 2009 | SEO & Analytics, xPlugins & Hacks - Deprecated!
As you may have heard, bing.com is the new search engine from Microsoft. Although tracking bing.com visitors in Google Analytics will take place automatically, the caveat is, that at present it is reported as a standard referrer – as if a link from another...
by Brian Clifton | May 4, 2009 | SEO & Analytics
Many people use Google Analytics for Search Engine Optimisation. As you may know, I started my digital life way back(!) in 1997 in web development and SEO – odd as it seems now, at that time Alta Vista was the Google of its day and Google was still a university...