Thursday, December 8, 2011

Google Analytics Hides Logged In User Search Queries


Every webmaster making his site analysis and reports would back upon the data from Google analytics. The search queries, search engine traffic, global visitors and much more can be viewed in this Google product.  What we see now in the analytics blog seems to evoke much interest to webmasters.
About ten days back there was a blog post in the analytics blogspot  Making search more secure: Accessing search query data in Google Analytics. On reading it , it was surprising that analytics had some tweaks made to it , one interesting development is that analytics had decided to hide search queries from logged in users, even though the traffic would be recognized as  organic search the query terms would be kept under wraps.
Now this may be seen as a serious analysis drawback by many webmasters as which terms to optimize may become a little difficult to choose. Also one must take note that users that are not logged on will have their search queries still displayed. So only a complete analysis would give us the traffic of logged vs unlogged users and how to determine the statistics of it and how it affects the website analytics, all these questions will be answered by time & research alone.

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