{"id":5068,"date":"2017-04-10T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.red-orbit.com\/blog\/?p=5068"},"modified":"2017-04-05T16:12:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T14:12:05","slug":"tracking-results-in-not-provided-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.red-orbit.com\/blog\/tracking-results-in-not-provided-world","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Results in (not provided) World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 23, 2013, Google announced the use of secure sockets layer (SSL) encrypted search for all users. It was the beginning of the (not-provided) era. Where marketers used to be able to see which keywords led traffic to their sites, we started to see <strong>\u201c(not provided)\u201d<\/strong> instead.<\/p>\n<p>Keyword data was no longer available, and that had a major impact on how SEO performance was measured. Some marketers turned to other metrics to drive their SEO strategies and justify their budgets, but most of those alternatives are insufficient for the task. The only metrics that CMOs and business owners should invest energy in collecting are those that help them achieve their business goals. The total number of organic visits available in most analytics tools isn\u2019t one of them.<\/p>\n<h2>The Vanity Metrics Trap<\/h2>\n<p>Organic traffic has to be split into two major segments: branded and non-branded organic traffic.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Branded organic traffic<\/strong> measures traffic to your site from queries that include your brand name. \u201cGrasshopper phone systems\u201d and \u201cJobvite software\u201d are branded traffic terms. Branded traffic is a form of direct traffic, and speaks to the company\u2019s overall popularity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Non-branded organic traffic<\/strong> measures traffic to your site that does not include your brand name, like \u201coffice phones\u201d or \u201crecruiting software.\u201d This traffic is a result of the company\u2019s visibility in search engines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To measure (and even predict) SEO performance, you have to be able to measure non-branded organic traffic. Unfortunately, this segmentation is no longer available in Google Analytics.<\/p>\n<p>As a consequence, marketers have started to rely more on other metrics, some of them misleading, such as keyword ranking or the total number of organic visits. Ranking and the website\u2019s overall visibility in search engines are essential indicators of a campaign\u2019s progress, but aren\u2019t of any help in understanding how SEO performance actually impacts the bottom line.<\/p>\n<h2>Why is non-branded organic traffic an essential SEO KPI?<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>It\u2019s the most conclusive indicator of your SEO performance<\/strong>. While rankings are important, there are no insights regarding how visibility in search engines actually impacts your business. Plus, visibility is not a metric you can use to compare the performance of the SEO channel to other digital marketing channels. Once you start measuring the non-branded organic traffic, you can compare SEO against paid search advertising, social media, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong>It helps you put together an effective SEO strategy.<\/strong> If you\u2019re looking to increase sales from your SEO activity, selecting the best- performing keywords is crucial. To do so, you need to rely on historical data, such as keywords that already bring in transactions and revenue. Without access to (not-provided) data, you can not prioritize such keywords and, therefore, you are missing on valuable opportunities.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><strong>It helps you establish the ROI of any SEO activity.<\/strong> As long as you don\u2019t know if the keywords in your SEO campaigns are bringing you visits and conversions, it\u2019s impossible to measure SEO performance and, implicitly, justify the budget you invest.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Unlock the (not-provided) and Get Non-branded Data Back<\/h2>\n<p>The most reliable solution for reclaiming this data is to merge Google Analytics and Google Search Console data.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Use Google Search Console<\/strong> to view (almost) the entire list of keywords that brought clicks to your website and the landing page they triggered.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong>Use Google Analytics<\/strong> to view your organic traffic, segmented by landing pages.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><strong>Connect<\/strong> the keywords data (clicks in Google Search Console) with the sessions, revenue, and conversions (Google Analytics), using the landing pages as common threads.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><strong>Divide<\/strong> the total number of session per landing page proportionally to the number of clicks each keyword triggered. Do that as well for the total number of conversions and revenue to get a full picture of what impact each keyword had.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The API available for both tools enables you to extract the data. The next step is to combine the information through a simple automation. You can do this in-house, with the help of a programmer, or you can use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seomonitor.com\/\">SEOmonitor<\/a>. Our tool automatically discloses the (not-provided) data on a daily basis, giving you all the information you need about the keywords that brought traffic and conversions.<\/p>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"5069\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.red-orbit.com\/blog\/tracking-results-in-not-provided-world\/slika\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.red-orbit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/slika.png?fit=1365%2C765&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1365,765\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"slika\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.red-orbit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/slika.png?fit=1365%2C765&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.red-orbit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/slika.png?fit=1365%2C765&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5069\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.red-orbit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/slika.png?resize=1365%2C765&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1365\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.red-orbit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/slika.png?w=1365&amp;ssl=1 1365w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.red-orbit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/slika.png?resize=768%2C430&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are other suggested methods out there, but none of them is as accurate and reliable as combining the data from these two Google tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 23, 2013, Google announced the use of secure sockets layer (SSL) encrypted search for all users. It was the beginning of the (not-provided) era. Where marketers used to be able to see which keywords led traffic to their sites, we started to see \u201c(not provided)\u201d instead. Keyword data was no longer available, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":5070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[11,31,28],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tracking Results in (not provided) World<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On September 23, 2013, Google announced the use of secure sockets layer (SSL) encrypted search for all users. 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