Keywords on Google Analytics

[Innovatora]

For those who have experience with Google Analytics, there is the section of "keywords" under "Traffic Sources" on the left- hand side of the page. For the referral keywords, are those the keywords that people typed in and found a link to my business page from there?

Some of the referral pages are websites I have never heard of or advertised on, so how would people discover my page from those sites? Do others post my link on their sites without my acknowledgement?

Thanks.

[PaperFlora]

Yes, traffic sources are the words people used to find your shop.
I find it hard to trace some of my referral pages. I get views from a blog about once a week and I have scoured her blog and can't find how they end up on my page. I'm not listed, I don't advertise, she has mentioned my shop or added a photo? It's just one of those weird things.

[Former_Member]

Thank you for this thread! I had the same question as Monique. Helpful tidbits - thanks Natalie!

[Former_Member]

I read somewhere else that it is the source that brought people to Etsy... not necessarily your shop. I could be reading it wrong but an Etsy help article says this:

With traffic sources, Shop Stats shows how people found your shop and Google Analytics shows how people found Etsy. If someone searched for "Etsy" on Yahoo, clicked through to the Etsy Homepage, did a search on Etsy and then clicked through to your listing, Google Analytics would record the traffic source as Yahoo and Shop Stats would record the traffic source as Etsy Search.

http://www.etsy.com/help/article/544

[Former_Member]

NO, those are the keywords that people used to come to ETSY, and unless your shop was the first thing they came to, they're NOT the keywords people used to find your shop.

Same thing with the websites people come from - not actually the source link to YOUR SHOP, just how the first got to Etsy, which maaaaay be your shop.