{"id":517,"date":"2017-02-14T12:28:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T12:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/?p=517"},"modified":"2017-02-14T12:28:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T12:28:13","slug":"analytics-information-is-not-reliable-not-provided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/analytics-information-is-not-reliable-not-provided\/517\/","title":{"rendered":"Analytics Information is not Reliable &#8211; &#8220;not provided&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We know for some time that Google started hiding much of their organic search data from monitoring applications. When we come to see the keywords that originated the searches we see &#8220;not provided&#8221; most of the time. There is nothing new here, but lately it has become so extreme that Google Analytics information regarding organic search is completely useless.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a quick example:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/analyticsSucks.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-518\" alt=\"analyticsSucks\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/analyticsSucks.png\" width=\"415\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/analyticsSucks.png 415w, https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/analyticsSucks-300x284.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, 99% of our searches are not provided.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, I strongly suggest on not using Google Analytics integration in sheerseo. If you can, choose the Google search console (formerly Google Webmaster Tools) instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know for some time that Google started hiding much of their organic search data from monitoring applications. When we come to see the keywords that originated the searches we see &#8220;not provided&#8221; most of the time. There is nothing new here, but lately it has become so extreme that Google Analytics information regarding organic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheerseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}