Why is my root domain showing as most common keyword?

Discussion in 'Google Analytics' started by berglin, Nov 23, 2011.

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    I have an ecommerce store and I'm wondering why the name of my website is the most commonly searched keyword according to analytics. I rank for a number of keywords for deep product pages and that is reflected in Google Analytics under keywords but I can't imagine why people would be typing in my website name as it is not a well known store (yet). Where do these results come from?
     
    berglin, Nov 23, 2011 IP
  2. Cain Fleming

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    It depends what your website domain is at the end of the day. If it is a keyword based domain then the likelihood is, yes you will get natural traffic and higher ranking for those keywords.
     
    Cain Fleming, Nov 23, 2011 IP
  3. berglin

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    I get a lot of results that just say "not provided" for the keyword results. Where do these come from?
     
    berglin, Nov 23, 2011 IP
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    Not provided is when a google user is signed into their google account. They are searching via SSL so the keywords are not transmitted and picked up by your analytics JS. Quite annoying...
     
    Cain Fleming, Nov 23, 2011 IP
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    Your responses were helpful
     
    berglin, Nov 23, 2011 IP