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"And that reason can be wholly mitigated through the use of Google's Webmaster Tools." No, Google's webmaster tools only provide a sampling of the data. We use
by Matt_Cutts 16y ago
"And that reason can be wholly mitigated through the use of Google's Webmaster Tools."
No, Google's webmaster tools only provide a sampling of the data. We used to provide info for only 100 queries. Now we provide it for more queries, but it's still a sample: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/more-data-and-charts-in-top-search.html http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/more-data...
Please don't make the argument that the data in our webmaster console is equivalent to the data that websites can currently find in their server logs, because that's not the case.
- rsingel 16y agoHi Matt. Is there any technical reason why that tool can't provide full information? Clearly Google isn't opposed to not sending referrer data, given the existence of https search, but doesn't DDG have a point about third parties having access to the referrer data? (Full disclosure: I wrote this article)