Google: Is There a Way to Find Your "Unknown Search Terms"

[VinJGirl]

I believe Google stopped reporting search terms for privacy reasons. All my searches show as "unknown". I found a video that showed how to get around this but it's not current. Is there any way to get your Google terms search information?

Thanks,

Jo-Ann

[ASEO]

Do you have a backwards ranker tool? If you know what you are ranking for - that might help narrow things down. Rank Recon has a tool that finds where a domain ranks in the top 20 results for specific keywords. Its not infallible but it is helpful.

[seoman10]

As far as I know there is no way of uncovering the Google 'not provided' keywords, and I don't think there's any point in kicking against it either because there are several ways that you can get information.  Mostly I think Google tries to hide any terms it thinks may release confidential information or very specific low-volume terms, in which case these probably wouldn't be much use anyway.

With enough traffic you can still get an awful lot of information from Google Analytics, it still releases about 10% of the keywords.

Secondly, Look at Google Search Console > Search Traffic > Search Analytics.

The strategy that I like best is to work the opposite way on, decide on the keywords that you want to go after and then optimise the site for those keywords.

[VinJGirl]

Great! Thank you both! The "Search Analysis" is very helpful!