Just click on the link and, if signed in to Google Analytics, you’ll be prompted to add the segment to your account.
Not provided segment for organic search
This is a major pain for marketers, and this segment allows you to quantify exactly how much of a pain it is. Then you can bitch about it with the facts at your fingertips…
See? Almost 25% of all visits are ‘not provided’:
It gets worse when you view this as a percentage of organic search traffic. Then it’s almost 65% of all organic queries, essentially rendering measurement of keywords almost useless, in our case at least.
Not provided custom segment
Organic searches minus not provided
This one filters out all the pesky not provided searches so you can concentrate on analysing the keyword referral data you have.
Organic searces minus not provided
Google+ traffic
Who knows? There might actually be some.
In our case, not an awful lot, as this segment shows. The spike, if you’re interested, was down to the Google+ discussion around this GA custom reports round-up.
This does show that, if you provide something of value to the G+ audience, and get involved in the discussion, it can produce results.
Google+ traffic segment
Search queries with multiple keywords
This one comes from the fantastic Avinash Kaushik, and you’ll see a more in-depth explanation on his blog. You’ll see how much time you’ll save with this if you read how Avinash created it.
Basically, it’s a great way of measuring long-tail traffic, and shows visits with three or more keywords in the search term.
For Econsultancy over the past month, this segment shows that 22,183 visits used three or more keywords, 19,967 used four or more, 12,454 five or more, and so on.
Search queries with multiple keywords segment
Branded vs non-branded keywords
Of course, branded keywords are unique to your business, so you’ll need to create this one yourselves. Here’s how…
Click on ‘+new segment’ and select ‘exclude’ from the first drop-down. After this, choose ‘dimension’ and select ‘keyword’.
Then it’s a case of adding your brand keywords to exclude from the non-branded report. If you have more than one, select ‘add AND statement’ and repeat the process for other brand terms.
For the branded keywords, it’s a similar process, only you need to include the keywords you excluded in the non-brand segment.
Mobile traffic (excluding tablets)
Google Analytics has a pre-loaded advanced segment for mobile traffic, but this includes tablet traffic. Since mobile and tablet can be very different, it makes sense to look at each individually.
Mobile traffic (excluding tablets)
Organic traffic with conversions
The next couple of segments will help you to see where converting traffic is coming from.
This one shows organic search traffic which converts:
Organic traffic with conversions
Social traffic with conversions
This is the same as above, only for traffic from social networks.
Here’s what it looks like, you can add any social sites which are missing, or remove to show the conversions from one particular network.
Social traffic with conversions
Blog to website traffic
Wany to find out how much traffic your blog is sending to the rest of your site?
This segment shows unique visits where vistors have entered through a blog page and ended up elsewhere on the site. This one only measures unique visitors, but you can edit to add pageviews and other metrics.
Blog to website traffic
Depth of visits
This segment shows the number of visitors viewing three or more pages on your site. (I found this one on Boagworld but I can’t find the exact article).
This is a good way to look at the depth of engagement, and how effective you are at keeping people on the site.
For example, we try to provide blog visitors with ideas for further reading, through promotion of reports, and related articles, and effective internal linking.
It’s a good idea to use this segement to compare time periods so you can see how effective your efforts are.
In our case, happily, we’ve managed to increase the number of visits with three or more pages.
Depth of visits
Depth of visits for social traffic
This is a version of the report above, which will show you if social traffic is more or less engaged than the average.
Here’s what it looks like. You can play around with this and use different traffic sources, page depths or see which of the social networks send the most ‘enagaged’ traffic.
Depth of visits for social traffic
Related posts:
- How to use Google Analytics advanced segments: a guide for beginners
- 10 valuable Google Analytics custom reports
- 10 more valuable Google Analytics custom reports
- How to steal some ‘not provided’ data back from Google
What have I missed? Which custom segments do you use regularly? Please let us know below…
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