Google Analytics Not Tracking Paid Keywords

[Dave_Davis]

Hi guys.
On one of my accounts that I manage, GA is not tracking "paid" keywrds.

Analytics is set up correct and I am getting all data except for one piece. Tracking keywords works fine for organic traffic, however not for paid.

If I go to : Traffic Sources >> Keywords I can see all the keywords.However if I select show>> paid all I see is:

(Not set)

What is this (not set)thing? All other accounts I manage are showing the paid keywords correctly.

I have tried removing the code and re-adding it. I have also turned off and back on auto tagging. Still nothing.

Any ideas?

[cfx211]

You probably need to encode/tag the landing URLs for your paid keywords. This was the only way I could get paid keywords to report properly.

They got a tool for building URLs:

[google.com...]

[Dave_Davis]

Thanks for the reply.

It says "If your Google Analytics account has been linked to an active AdWords account, there's no need to tag your AdWords links - auto-tagging will do it for you automatically."

I shouldn't have to tag them. Also, manual tagging for more than 1000 keywords is not practical.

I sent over an email, but I doubt I'll get anything back. Looks like this is my excuse to start looking into alternative third party tracking analytics packages.

[Dave_Davis]

Just a quick update on this. Google got back to me. Here is what they say:

[//Paraphrased Edit]: This is a known issue that they hope to rectify soon, but can't say when it will be fixed [End Paraphrase

I am surprised that no-one else is posting about this considering it appears to be widespread.

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[edited by: Receptional at 8:45 am (utc) on May 22, 2007]