How do I create a segment that shows me all pages using a certain keyword? But nothing that doesn't have that keyword?
-
There must be an easy answer to this, but I can't seem to find it.
All I want to do is create a segment in Google Analytics that shows all pages and search strings with "orthopaedics" in the title, with pageviews, uniques etc.
If I simply navigate to "All Pages" in Google Analytics and then click Advanced Filters and do an Include Page Contains "orthopaedics" it works just fine. (See attached Screen Shot)
But when I try to recreate this as a segment, it pulls in all other pages the users visited before arriving on the orthopaedics page I want to include, which I don't want. I can manually exclude each URL I don't want, but this is tedious and I feel there must be a simpler method I'm just missing.
At the end of the day, I'm trying to create a list of every page and dynamically created query string that includes the word "orthopaedics" to say doctor X, your orthopaedics section generated X views, and here's a list of the pages.
-
OK cool, I want to make sure I am answering you properly. You mention above that you'd like to say "X amount of unique website visits (or X amount of users) came to this set of landing pages" but also that you don't want to exclude sessions that started on another page. I'm going to assume that the questions you want to answer are;
- How many sessions visited Ortho pages at any point
- How many users visited Ortho pages at any point.
If you would like some help setting up the custom segment do let me know but it makes perfect sense that that segment would include non-Ortho pages when you go to the all pages report. As you say above, you are happy to see sessions which include users visiting other pages, even sessions where users visit non-Ortho pages first of all. So both of the following can be true;
- The segment is showing you only sessions which included a visit to an Ortho page
- The segment includes page hits to non-Ortho pages.
The key difference is that when you filter the all pages report you are saying "only show information about the following pages" and when you apply the segment you are saying "only show information about the following sessions/users". Does that make sense?
You will need to set up separate segments to get the total number of sessions and total number of users who ever visit the Ortho pages, assuming you are using the Sequences part of the GA segments builder, you'll want the following settings (which you may have already applied);
For sessions
- Include
- Sessions
- Sequence start: Any user interaction
- Step 1 - Page contains: ortho (etc.)
For users
For sessions
- Include
- Users
- **Sequence start: **Any user interaction
- Step 1 - Page contains: ortho (etc.)
Once you have those segments applied, you can go to any of the unfiltered GA reports which give total session and user numbers and record those numbers as appropriate.
Hope that helps!
-
I just want to say X amount of unique website visits (or X amount of users) came to this set of landing pages. In this case Orthopaedics. I think in my screen shot that's precisely what I'm retrieving, but perhaps I'm interpreting that wrong.
I don't just want to capture landing pages for Ortho, because many people start elsewhere, visit an Ortho page and then visit some other page in a different section. I just want all the traffic related to Ortho pages though, and none of the pages related to other sections in the report.
Like I said, I can exclude those other pages from the report, but it's a tedious process.
Thanks Robin for taking the time to try and help me.
-
Hi there Patrick!
So by the sounds of things, what you are looking for is Landing Pages, rather than just Pages. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you would like to know how many sessions started on "orthopaedics" pages right? If you go to Landing Pages rather than All Pages in the Content report and filter it just the same way, you'll be able to see the number of sessions which landed on the pages you've filtered to.
Does that help?
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
Help setting up FILTERS for External Payment pages?
Hi all, I own a webshop and believe my Google Analytics is not showing true data. At the moment when a user pays for their basket, they are redirected to an external secure payment page from my PSP, then after they have paid they are redirected back to my website. How is this visitor being counted? As the PSP-URL is a different site I assume this would be treated as an exit? Can I setup FILTERS to INCLUDE this URL so GA doesn't think its an external page or is there a better way? Thanks
Reporting & Analytics | | darrenbooy0 -
Why am I showing a difference in Goal completion for Adwords and Analytics?
I have conversion tracking setup for Adwords and Goal tracking setup in Analytics. There is a large discrepancy between the two. Anyone have any ideas?
Reporting & Analytics | | EcommerceSite0 -
Conversion via Paypal not showing order value in google analytics
Hello All, I have an e commerce site, when goal conversion happens by CC(credit card) I can see order value in e commerce tab in Google analytics but when conversion happens through paypal I always see order value zero. I want see order value for Pay pal also.Please help me out. Thanks
Reporting & Analytics | | Alick3000 -
SERPS showing wrong page
Hi there, searching Google UK for the term 'wireless alarms' returns the following page at position 39'ish - http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk/security-information/gsm-gprs-alarm-systems The page that should be returned for that search is - http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk/security-equipment The page being returned by Google at present is not optimised in any way for 'wireless alarms' but the page it should be showing is optimised for that term and the Moz grading tool agrees. The correct page also has a higher PA and 533 inbound links and the page being displayed has a lower PA and only 3 links. Could some kind soul tell me what i am doing wrong please? Thank you Si
Reporting & Analytics | | DaddySmurf0 -
Does analytics track an order two times by refresh on the confirmation-page?
Hi there,
Reporting & Analytics | | Webdannmark
I have a quick question. Does Google analytics track an order two times, if the user buys a product, see the confirmation page and then click refresh/click or back and forward again?
The order/tracking data must be the same, but i guess the tracking code runs for every refresh and therefore tracks the order two times in Analytics or does analytics know that it is the same order? Someone that can clearify this?Thanks! Regards
Kasper0 -
Why is Google Analytics showing index.php after every page URL?
Hi, My client's site has GA tracking code gathering correct data on the site, but the pages are listed in GA as having /index.php at the end of every URL, although this does not appear when you visit the site pages. Even if there is a redirect happening for site visitors, shouldn't GA be showing the pages as their redirect destination, i.e. the URL that visitors actually see? Could this discrepancy be adversely affecting my search performance? Example page: http://freshstarttax.com/innocent-spouse/ shows up in GA as http://freshstarttax.com/innocent-spouse/index.php thanks
Reporting & Analytics | | JMagary0 -
Homepage on page 2 for site:domain
Hi all, today I noticed that our homepage is located on page 2 if you do the site:domain query. As far as I know, the site:domain results mirror the importance in the eyes of Google. Some time ago, our homepage was the first result. I have to say that we do not often have changing elements or new content on the homepage, it is more like a static page. But still the most linked to page on the domain... What conclusion can I come to? Is our homepage of lower importance to Google than some time ago? Is it a problem for SEO? As we backed down our advertisments, the traffic from branded keywords fell the last months - could this be an explanation? And, most important: do I have to worry? (Besides, the SEO-traffic is fine and growing..)
Reporting & Analytics | | accessKellyOCG0 -
Google Analytics' Goals and Cold Fusion
We are having an issue tracking goal completions in GA with a cold fusion site. I would like to know if anyone as had similar issues and found a solution.
Reporting & Analytics | | JamesBarry0