I think it explains it in google analytics as there being no referring site, so I take that to mean the url was typed directly into the browser's address bar. In my case, most of the direct traffic is me working on my store because if I check the 'city' information, 9 out of 10 direct traffic instances come from my own town.

It's quite possible they did. However, they don't have to type it to class as 'Direct Traffic'

Direct traffic means "anyone who arrived at your page without clicking a link on another website to get there"

So anyone who:

has saved a page as a bookmark and clicked that // wouldn't be 100% unique as they've been before
typed it in the address bar
copied & pasted it in to the address bar
is running an anonymizer which stops websites being able to tell where you just came from

all count as 'direct traffic'. The last 3 are most likely to be who visited your store.

Hope this helps.

There would be results in the 'referred sites' part under 'traffic sources' which have Zazzle search URLs ... ie, http://www.zazzle.fr/cat+labels

I don't think Analytics can track product views though (or statcounter). I think it just tracks people who visit your home page or your category pages. The products aren't actually part of your store as they don't have your store name in the URL like a store category does.

I had a marketplace sale at 5:07AM (Zazzle time) today and I have no record of that person in either Analytics or Statcounter. This suggests even more that they don't track people visiting your actual products. So if someone buys from the marketplace you'd never see it in your stats unless they clicked your username instead and came to your store before going off to by a product.... I think that makes sense.

Just from looking at your Analytics Account you'll technically never know if you have or not since they don't track visits to actual products.

You could have had 100 people look at one of your t-shirts today. 25 of them came from a 3rd party website (ie, joe's blog), 25 came from a Zazzle Marketplace search and the other 50 came from your Zazzle store.

Analytics will only record the 50 people who got to that t-shirt from your Zazzle store and it'll appear as an exiting link. It won't record the 25 from joe's blog or the 25 from the Zazzle marketplace because Analytics doesn't know that that product is from your store.

Your products only show in your store because they are connected to it via a database. They are actually part of Zazzle. The only part of Zazzle that your Analytics account tracks is anything which has your store name in it. So,

zazzle.com/chosenpeople
zazzle.com/chosenpeople/gifts?cg=196778332509825899
zazzle.com/chosenpeople/myfanclub

etc

The main reason for having traffic stats on yout Zazzle store is to see what percentage of people are being driven there from your personal website/s and how many stay to buy something.

I have a website which I track traffic on. I can see who leaves via a link to Zazzle and if they went to a 'trackable' page within Zazzle. I then cross reference with my Zazzle traffic stats to see where they went after they got there. It takes some cross checking and it's not perfect because as soon as they click a product you've lost them. Sometimes though, you can track them right through to the purchase. It all depends on the route they take.

I'd like to put my 2 cents in. It doesn't work. GA says I have about 5-15 visitors a day where my homepage says I have well over 100 every day. Doesn't make any sense.