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At the launch of G+ I tested a way to assign search terms that people used to get to my page to G+ users - if they clicked on an +1 G+ button (which had some ni
by franze 10y ago
At the launch of G+ I tested a way to assign search terms that people used to get to my page to G+ users - if they clicked on an +1 G+ button (which had some nifty callbacks then). Kinda worked. I could assign the search term to a set of users which I narrowed down with manual review.
Think Google must have been aware of the issue of intermingling Search with Social as a pretty short time later they scrapped the search query referers from (organic) Google Search.
Note: It was just a proof of concept to see if I could. Also: Nobody used G+ anyway.
- aub3bhat 10y agoSearch query referers were dropped due to adoption of HTTPS/TLS. When a url is visited from an HTTPS site the browser does not sends reffer url only the host. Its still possible to get "aggregate" information about keywords via Google Webmaster tools. https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2012/03/upcoming-changes-in-googles-http.html?m=1 https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2012/03/upcoming-changes-i...
- franze 10y agoYeah default-for-logged-in-users-https-with-stripping-part-of-the-referrer started in 2011, besides being a good idea -after the launch of G+ profiles as there was now a public "real name" piece of information that connected search queries to G+ users. Google Search Console data doesnt let you connect google search queries to sessions.
- travoc 10y agoGoogle passing your search queries in the referral URL was always a privacy issue. The TLS/SSL issue was an easy excuse to get rid of it.