"Keyword not provided" - Is Google's new decision affecting PIWIK's data?

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Hi All,

Since Google decided to hide their keyword report, my “keyword not provided” count on PIWIK increased drastically. Do you have the same issue? (I am in the US).

I haven’t found information if PIWIK’s data is affected by this change. It seems it is, but I want to reconfirm.

For more info: When Keyword (not provided) is 100 Percent of Organic Referrals, What Should Marketers Do? - Whiteboard Tuesday - Moz

Thanks

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Hi Caro,
yes Piwik is also affected, but this applies to all analytics solutions - even Google Analytics won’t give you keyword details anymore. The only option is to switch to https completely (your website and Piwik). This way browsers will still send Referrers that we can analyze.

Cheers!

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Hi

So if you setup piwik and the site as full https throughout then we can still track referrers and keywords through piwik?

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Yes

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What would be the steps in setting up Piwik to be https?

Thanks

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thats pretty much an epiphany with all the problems people are facing with the not provided update for analytics now.

M<ore details please.
ill work on our first domain today and try and get this setup to see if i find any problems.

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pwkuser: Just install a signed SSL certificate (e.g. StartSSL) and make sure Piwik is available under https://yourdomain.com/piwik

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Do the pages need to be https or can just piwik tracker be https?

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Before anyone goes further with SSL, as far as I could find references around the web, Google does not pass the keyword, no matter if you use the secure connection or don’t. The info is mostly from SEO oriented sites and forums, and it’s a kind of old news.

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There is a way to determine some data based on googles coding of the links from what i’ve read. wonder if piwik team be interested in looking into that. otherwise… F google… that dirty data hungry corp… hate’em

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Before anyone goes further with SSL, as far as I could find references around the web, Google does not pass the keyword, no matter if you use the secure connection or don’t. The info is mostly from SEO oriented sites and forums, and it’s a kind of old news.

This is correct. Spending extra cash and time on SSL certificates is not going to fix it:

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2300838/Google-Keyword-Not-Provided-How-to-Move-Forward

On an off note: Why is this word banned on these forums( I had to use Google URL Shortener to even post it )? The M word for cash, sounds like monkey.

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Spam: Monkey without k is banned because we had heaps of spam with it… sometimes spam measures are silly, but fighting spam is not fun…

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[quote=matt]
Spam: Monkey without k is banned because we had heaps of spam with it… sometimes spam measures are silly, but fighting spam is not fun…[/quote]

LOL! Roger. Yeah those Spam bots, are no fun.

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i am under the impression that all organic search keywords (in google) are still being made available to (paying) Google Adwords customers
who i am told can consult their paid and organic reports seperately

is that correct?

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[quote=escocia1]
i am under the impression that all organic search keywords (in google) are still being made available to (paying) Google Adwords customers
who i am told can consult their paid and organic reports seperately

is that correct?[/quote]

Paid keywords are still available but google is hiding all/most of organic keywords (even if you’re doing adwords).

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Good news: you can now use our new Search Engine Keywords Performance plugin which lets you import your Google, Bing and Yahoo keywords into your Piwik. Learn more about the reports provided and how to import keywords on the plugin page and in the Search Keywords Monitor User Guide.