Google's War on Data and the Clickstream Revolution

Posted by rjonesx.Existential threats to SEORand called "Not Provided" the First Existential Threat to SEO in 2013. While 100% Not Provided was certainly one of the largest and most egregious data grabs by Google, it was part of a long and continued history of Google pulling data sources which benefit search engine optimizers. A brief history Nov 2010 - Deprecate search API Oct 2011 - Google begins Not Provided Feb 2012 - Sampled data in Google Analytics Aug 2013 - Google Keyword Tool closed Sep 2013 - Not ...