: What keyword is driving traffic to a PDF Is it possible to figure out what keywords are driving a traffic to a particular page? Our's for instance is a PDF file that is not being tracked

@Angela700

In Google Search Console, click on Search Analytics, then select Pages. You can use an include only filter for .pdf files or specific one, or select from the table below.
Then, go back to Query, and now you can see which keywords directly drove traffic to your PDFs.

You can also track PDFs in Google Analytics.

Here you can find 2 complete answers about tracking PDFs in Google Analytics:
Tracking PDFs properly on our website

So, you can use Events or Virtual Pageviews. Your choice.

Remember that keyword data for analytics is very limited and you'll have only a small spectrum of them. But it can be interesting because now you can see the path your segmented audience can take before reaching a PDF, even when PDFs are not "landing pages".

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@Gail5422790

Yes, As Olivier said, it is not possible. Workaround method would be, "Put up a intermittent redirect page (blank with GA Code embedded and appropriate delay which allows GA pixel to fire) where you can capture the information you require".

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@Karen161

This is not possible using Google Analytics, unless you implement a server side proxy script, that sends a request to Google Analytics before sending the PDF file to the browser. See developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/v1/
I would suggest that you use Google Webmaster Tools, which allows you to see search requests from Google (but not other search engines unfortunately) for certain pages, so you would be able to see which keywords were used before downloading your file. This is visible under "Search traffic" -> Search requests and then clicking the "Popular pages" tab.

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