Keyword stats from Google?

[myrrh]

I recently had a conversation with a web developer who claimed he can provide his clients with the keywords visitors use to find his clients' sites.

I said "But not those searches referred from Google."

He said yes, from Google.

I thought that about 2 years ago, Google switched all searches over to encrypted searches and no more keyword data is passed to site owners.

Am I misunderstanding what the Google keyword issue change meant or is there actually a way to get keyword data from Google?

Or is that web developer confused about what he's talking about?

[RhinoFish]

He's confused, or referring to some proxy method he thinks is close enough.

[chewy]

there are ways - but you have to pay and know how to use AdWords to get the data - or you can always guess based on the little data actually provided.

there are people who claim that GWMT does it - but I can't figure it out and don't trust what I see there anyway.

AdWords is the only way as far as I can tell, and I think that's going to be degrading more and more over time.

[onlineleben]

The problem (at least for me) is that GWT provides keywords that the site is found for, but it doesn't show all the click data.
I quite often see something like "754 clicks / -5% / 178 shown".
This gives me an idea of what is popular and done right, but not the full picture.
Any ideas how to get more info? My GA and GWT accounts are linked.

[chewy]

Nope. No ideas.

GWMT keyword data is but an estimate as far as I know.

Maybe the other folks here at WebmasterWorld will say different.

There are some work-arounds but the require specialty filters to show what landing page the query landed on and combining that with inferring from patterns.

Spend for AdWords is the only answer.