Why do I see a keyword labelled "not provided" in the Organic Search Traffic report"

Why do I see a keyword labelled "not provided" in the Organic Search Traffic report"
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The "not provided" keyword indicates visits from Google.com where the user has signed in to their Google Account or has used the https:// version of Google Search. 

When a signed in user visits your site from an organic Google search, all web analytics services, including Google Analytics, will continue to recognize the visit as Google “organic” search, but will no longer report the query terms that the user searched on to reach your site. You can read more about this in this Analytics blog post: http://goo.gl/NUhXH

If your website is verified in Google Webmaster Tools you will be able to:
  - View the top 1000 daily search queries and top 1000 daily landing pages for the past 30 days.
 - View the impressions, clicks, clickthrough rate (CTR), and average position in search results for each query, and compare this to the previous 30 day period.
- Drill down by service (web / video / images / mobile) and location (country) in the Top Search Queries report

More details here: http://goo.gl/uS26O

And if you have more questions about the data you see in your Webmaster Tools account, add these friendly folks from the Webmasters Help team to your circles and watch your stream for invites to the Webmaster Central hangouts.

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