how to get more traffic from google?

Hi! I "think" my SEO is pretty good.....not neccesarily asking for a critique there but....

Today I had 494 views from etsy.com, and only 9 from google. com :(

Is this a normal/average ratio? I have been here a while now and make decent sales, but most of my search views are from Etsy (yay Etsy!)....and cannot for the life of me figure out how to increase my google views! Any advice? I also realize I am in one of the most saturated markets ;)
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Re: how to get more traffic from google?

First of all, not all of your Etsy views originated on Etsy - google views only count google for the first view (when they click from google to your page); after that any clicking around to other listings, shop main page, etc. are etsy views.

Generally it's better to compare Etsy search views to google views.

Google is a long game. the SEO best practices are a bit different, but not much - mostly, you have to look at your listing descriptions to make sure they don't have blocks of repeated text, and do keyword research to make sure you're targeting phrases that people actually search but for which the competition is not too high.

After you've done those things, it's about backlinks. This is hard. I don't even try because I am out of time as it is, but someday I will have to start pursuing them.
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Re: how to get more traffic from google?

thanks - didn't know about the first google view! yes.....so much to learn and do, so little time ;)
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Re: how to get more traffic from google?

I also don't understand about Google views. I did an image search on one of my items, and when I clicked on it, it brought me to an Etsy page with a zillion other items in my category, but NOT the item shown in the Google image search (and it still is for sale in my shop). This doesn't seem right.
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