Comments on: The Ultimate Guide to Google’s Keyword ‘(Not Provided)’

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 05:57:00 +0000

Can’t play too conservatively when you’re doing PPC. You have to bid to win that traffic. You should be receiving >90% impression share of the keywords you are bidding on and that means bidding a little higher sometimes. What happens is that you have to have an optimized sales process to justify the ability to bid higher. If you make more per sale, you can bid more per click, and squash your competition.

By: Brent Rangen

Brent Rangen — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 23:41:00 +0000

Yeah, the good ol’ fashioned URL modification (grid, in this case) works to pull more straight out of WMT’s. I’m sure you’re aware of that. I just stumbled into it and will add it to the article. Feel free to reach out to me Terry with any more insights if you’d like to see any other resources added to this article.

By: Terry Van Horne

Terry Van Horne — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 00:34:00 +0000

A partial tell is in the way the query and landing Pages reports are coded. They are executables whereas normal implementation is to write the data into divs and show the div on execute, usually click or mouseover. The way it is done simply scraping the pages (most SEO’s can do this with their eyes closed) does not expose the data.

By: Brent Rangen

Brent Rangen — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 23:48:00 +0000

Hi Terry,

As far as I can tell, search query data can’t be directly combined with any meaningful GA metric. You’re exactly right that they ARE working to remove this data from WMT’s exports and API’s. If not, this would be a great time for a Google rep to step forward.

By: Terry Van Horne

Terry Van Horne — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:07:00 +0000

Hey Brent 2 things… you could get the data as the top page and top data in GWT actually does provide the corresponding pages for a keyword or vice versa… the problem here is A. the downloadable csv does not contain the pages in the query data or the query in the landing page data…even worse you can’t get it by scraping because it looks like JSON calls that only execute when the executable is clicked… ie: in other words by design they have withheld and blocked the ability to get the data and figure out the notprovided. Further more that data is not available in the GWT API either…so obviously all the guff about they aren’t trying to hide it from us is just Google pissing on our leg and telling us it is raining. They absolutely can facilitate…but have gone to fairly long lengths to block it.