Tag Archives: (not provided)
PPC Blog Posts Michael Wiegand // 11 Apr, 2014
(not provided) for Advertisers™ Beta
If you’re a paid search professional and you’ve been within a stone’s throw of a computer in the last 48 hours, you’ve probably heard: they’re coming for your search query data. Search Engine Land broke the story, Google themselves confirmed it: “Today, we are extending our efforts to keep search secure by removing the query… Read More
SEO Blog Posts George Freitag // 26 Sep, 2013
Team Portent Weighs In On the Loss of Organic Keywords
Well it finally happened. In what they claim is a move to make search data more secure, Google has begun to encrypt all searches, effectively placing all organic traffic into the (not provided) category. This means business owners will never see the keywords people used to get to their site. We’ve already gone over what… Read More
SEO Blog Posts Portent Staff // 24 Sep, 2013
A Day in the Life or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love (not provided)
I read the news today, oh boy… Danny Sullivan announced that Google is actively moving towards 100% encrypted search results. This should come as no surprise to anyone in the industry. When Google introduced secure search back in 2011, we saw the writing on the wall. As Google increased their number of users, the number… Read More
PPC Blog Posts Michael Wiegand // 16 Jul, 2013
Another, Better Way to Tackle (not provided)
I know it’s a horribly dead horse-beaten topic now, but (not provided) is a bigger problem than ever for search engine marketers. If we obsess over it, we lose sight of more important parts of a campaign. If we don’t address it, the client thinks organic traffic on their bread and butter keywords is plummeting.… Read More