Over the last few months
you’ve probably noticed a new feature called, “Shop Stats”. If you haven’t seen them you will find this
new feature by clicking on YOUR PAGE, then on the drop down Menu clicck on soources for yuou to choose from.
When there you will see a lot of data. You can choose to see data for the day, for
yesterday , for the last 7 days or for the last 30 days. You
can also see last month, the last year, and more.
Direct traffic is when someone types your shop name into
their browser to access your shop, via a bookmark or click through.
Etsy.com is traffic that has come from the site, this includes treasuries, search, teams,
etc.. On the shop stat page they are
broken down individually on the right hand side of the report.
There is what is referred to as the Dashboard. It includes data and graphs for views,
favorites, and revenue. Here, there are
listing views and shop views. Listing
views are when people view your listings pages.
Shop views are when
people view any of your shop pages, they view your shop page and then go to
other shop pages of yours. It could include sections,such as sold items and policies.
HOW DO PEOPLE FIND YOUR SHOP
There are a total of three reports , that send people to your shop.
·
Top Traffic Sources: these are sites that sent people to your shop
·
Top Traffic Sources on Etsy: Etsy
features and pages that sent people to your shop
·
Top Keywords: Keywords used to find your shop in
search engines, including Etsy search
Each of the reports lists up to 12 traffic sources. You can use these reports to dig into
where your traffic comes from.
You can track your marketing efforts and look for opportunities to
increase traffic. . The Top Keywords
report provides a window into how people search
for your items on Etsy, google, and other search engines. You can use the report to get ideas for how
to tag your items and where to focus efforts to increase search engine traffic.
The Top Traffic Sources on Etsy report Etsy lists features and pages on Etsy that sent
traffic to your shop. For example, if you see a Favorites listed as a traffic
source, it includes all traffic for favorites pages. It might mean someone
viewing their own favorites or someone elses favorites and then clicking through
to your listing or shop.
Shop Stats in Real Life
Shop stats track the
referring page for each view in your shop. If you see “Your Shop” as a traffic
source. It means someone was exploring your shop and went from one shop page to another. This of course what you want to happen. Let’s
look at some examples and see what’s going on in their shop. I’m going to use
my own stats because I have access to all the data I need. These first stats
are from several weeks ago around the time people were getting started with
their holiday shopping.
v
StumbleUpon
649
Your Listing 46
v
Direct Traffic 579 Your Shop 46
v
Etsy.com 200 Your Profile 30
Let me first explain a little about how I do my
promoting. I start with twitter, I then copy the ad I just wrote for Twitter
and then I go to Facebook and paste it there.
After Facebook I go to Stylepage, again I paste my ad there, then I’m
off to Pinterest where I again paste my
ad. After I do Pinterest I go to StumbleUpon, and then I finish up with Flickr. I am also on tumblr although I don’t have to
do it myself, StumbleUpon takes care of that for me. That is a lot of free exposure. You can see
from my numbers that it paid off for me. StumbleUpon also posts to several
other social networks. So with 649 from the last 7 days I would have
to say that work was very beneficial.
The next listing is DirectTraffic, remember that direct
traffic is when someone actually puts your name into their browser , to access
your shop, is 579. I really like this listing, it means people are aware of me
and they think enough of my work to check in and see what’s new.
The third listing on the left is Etsy.com, keep in mind that
this number is an accumulation of the 12 items on the right side. In this case they are self explanatory. I
got views from my listings, my shop, and
my profile, as well as a few others that brought the total to 200.
These figures tell me that my profile is interesting and it
pulls in some customers. “Your Shop”
tells me that people stick around look at more than just the first page they
look through the whole shop or at least more pages than just the front page.
Your listings views are when people stick around and view your listings
pages. If you continue to look through these listings you will see
numbers on most of the 12 items. This is showing that you are doing a little
bit of advertising in various, probably most or all areas.
If your numbers don’t look good, what can you do about
it? Having this tool to help us we can pinpoint our areas that we need to work on. You can hone in on what to do. You may want to work on speading the numbers
around. Getting the most bang for your
buck. Depending on your what your product is will probably be
the deciding factor about where you will want to advertise. Some of the social
networks are more for fashion designs and then some are more inclined toward
s housewares, and homedecor. You
may want to check into the social networks themselves, there are so many
more then what I have mentioned so far. So do some research you may find places
that are better suited for your product.
Kaboodle for instance is all about fashion, from clothing to shoes and
jewelry, but home decor is irrelevant .
My own feelings on the matter are this; StumbleUpon
reaches a wide and diverse audience so I want to keep up my numbers there,
all the ads that go on StumbleUpon
go out to other social networks ,
so that is a lot of bang for my buck.
Direct Traffic is great because those people have heard
about you some how some way and are interested enough to type your shop name
into their browser and look up your shop.
You want this number to grow.
That means your brand is becoming known.
Do what you can to make this number grow.
Etsy.com is
important, views in this area come from people seeing your items in treasuries or coming across them in a search. So let’s keep making those
treasuries and viewing them, and at
least clicking through on one item of
each treasury if not more.
Let’s look at another example.
v Etsy.com 316 Search 67
v
Direct Traffic
58
Your Shop 62
v
Google.com
12
Your Profile 40
Without giving too much attention to it, we will remember
Etsy.com is the traffic that has come
form the site or team itself. My guess would be is that this person is very
active in creating treasuries and being reciprocated by being used in others
treasuries. While treasuries are
excellent sources for exposure or advertisement they do tend to keep the
information within the confines of the Etsy site.But many sales are generated
just this way, so it’s nothing to be
ignored.
The direct traffic is 58, that indicates that this shop owner has built up a following of around 60 people. I would bet that this person does not use Twitter, Facebook or any of the other social networks.So I Would have to recommend just that, get out there and post to the teams and also post to Twitter Facebook, etc.
Here is another good example .
v Direct Traffic 485 Your Shop 42
v
Stumble Upon 305 Your
Listings 35
v
Etsy.com 176 Your Profile 2
This person has built up a great following, 485 people typed
this shop name and purposely chose this
shop to visit. They also did their
ground work by promoting to the right social networks, with 305 on
StumbleUpon. This shop owner is well
rounded in her promotion, with 176
coming from the site, which would be the treasuries, searches, and teams.
The 176 for etsy .com is an accumulation of all the numbers from YOUR
SHOP, YOUR LISTINGS, YOUR PROFILE, ETC.,.
She is doing well with her promotions , but could probably do more of
the same..
Here is one more example,
give a try yourself reading what it means and what needs to be donel
v
Etsy.com 29 Your shop 12
v
Direct Traffic 3 teams 9
v
Google.com 1
Treasury 4
Remember etsy.com is traffic that has come from the site, it
includes treasuries, searches , teams,
etc. Direct traffic comes from people typing your shop number into the address
line and intentionally going to your shop.
In this case Google.com was used with very meager results. All the other numbers are shown are added
together and total the number of etsy.com.
I hope now that you’ve read this information you will use it
to analyze what is going on in your shop.
If you learn the meanings of the terms you will be able to pinpoint your
weak points and you’ll be able pinpoint trouble spots.
by Marilyn Rush