Site structure is simple:
/menu
/blog
/photos
Each of these "sections" have many pages below them. All of these pages follow the url structure: pages under /menu have the url /menu/nameofthething, etc.
How do I answer the question: "of all of the users to our website, how many users ever view any page under /blog?"
"Content Drilldown" allows you to see page views for a section like /menu or /blog but it doesn't appear to give me any data that would allow me to calculate that from page views into users.
Any help would be much appreciated.
You can create a custom segment of your users, who have visited a given page or set of pages, or a segment of sessions, that contain a visit of selected page(s). (Look for Conditions tab under Advanced group of New segment dialog.) You can apply this segment to your reports, e.g. Audience reports in your case, which will give you number of users for this particular segment and selected time period.
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My end goal is to find related pages for any given input page, using 'other pages viewed in a session' as a proxy.
So given the URL of '/mens/sweatshirts', I wanted to know that there are usually always views recorded on '/mens/sweatshirts', '/mens/hoodies' and '/mens/t-shirts' for example
Any direction appreciated. Thanks
You can do this with segments.
Your setup would be something like this:
Say you're working with the google demo account and was looking at men's shirts:
You would note that URL and use it in the segment configuration like so (make sure it is 'session' at first, use 'user' if you want to isolate it by the user across multiple sessions ):
Apply the segment and now all the data you see when browsing around GA will be focused only on people who have visited that men's t-shirt page. In this specific example, it shows all the pages people visit in sessions that visited the men's t-shirt page.
I have a large amount of items that each item has a page like this site/item_show.aspx?id=The_ID_here there are tens of thousands of items and each day nearly two thousands are added. Furthermore each item has a description in its page so for each item, its page should be crawled by search engines.
My question is with this amount of data described: How can I generate sitemaps or anything like that to make all items visible by google and other search engines?
It is clear that I cannot show all items in the first pages but I can make pages that simply just contains the link of items and provide tens of them each page for just search engine. Would it work or is it anything better to do for making items be indexed by google?
essentially there are 3 methods which will help you with the Mass-Indexing :
1. Create an XML SiteMap for all of your pages and link to it from you HomePage.
2. you should have Google Webmaster Tools Installed and you can load that same XML file into it.
3. Have an Organized Categories structure - depending on the type of your site think about a logical Categories Structure for example in eCommerce stores all the products are categorized by product Main-Category then a product Sub-category and sometimes by Brands etc... - of course you should do this via your Shopping-cart platform - Just remember that if you begin chaging the URLs-structure you'll need to take care of all the Redirects from the old URLS to the new ones.
First, use XML sitemaps and submit those to Google (note that i said sitemapS - more than one).
Next, ensure that your on-site content is nicely organised into categories and sub-categories - ideally you'd want all elements to be reachable in as few clicks as possible without users (or Googlebot) having to resort to the search function.
Finally, ensure that your more popular / important items are featured in the homepage or 1-2 clicks deep, and get links and social shares to those specific product pages.
Be popular and get links to your site. Have a good server which can handle the crawl.
There is also not a hard limit on our crawl. The best way to think
about it is that the number of pages that we crawl is roughly
proportional to your PageRank. So if you have a lot of incoming links
on your root page, we’ll definitely crawl that. Then your root page
may link to other pages, and those will get PageRank and we’ll crawl
those as well. As you get deeper and deeper in your site, however,
PageRank tends to decline...
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I'm collecting data on complexities of several domains- represented by total pages, visited and unvisited.
I was initially finding what I wanted from Google Analytics by drilling down to Behavior -> Site Content -> Landing Pages but wasn't sure if that was returning unvisited sites. Then I tried All Pages per domain, but that returned like 1,800 results for "pages", with params in some cases /Pages/Results.aspx?k=update.
That being said, I don't think I can rely on GA for total pages per site.
Then I thought about using a web scraper, namely web2disk or httrack.com, to scrape for the #pages per domain. Is that a good path to take? Is it necessary to get this information?
Thanks
If you want to know how many pages there are on your site you need to crawl your site to find all the pages. Because of the way it works Google analytics will 100% only show you data on pages which have been loaded (which fires the analytics code) in a browser.
http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/ is a paid for crawler you can use to find all the pages (£99), or you could potentially try to hack something together using a free crawler like http://import.io (disclaimer: I work at import.io) to get all the URls.
Find all visited pages via GA:
Behaviour -> Site Content -> Landing Pages does not give you any pages which were not 'Landed upon'.
Then I tried All Pages per domain, but that returned like 1,800 results for "pages", with params in some cases /Pages/Results.aspx?k=update.
To remove the params from the page URls you can use a report filter at the top right of the table. Click 'advanced', and use the tools there to exclude params from URls.
Alternatively you can switch your primary dimension to 'Page title' if you have Unique page titles for each page (and identical ones for pages with params).
I defined some custom variables to make it possible to identify when a specific user visits my website. So for each user I can see when and how many pages they visited, avg visit duration etc.
Is it possible to know which pages they have visited?
I was able to make it work by going to Content > Site Content > All Pages and adding a custom segment (in Advanced Segments) that allowed me to filter by custom variable (ie, user id in my case). This way it shows all pages viewed by the user I've filtered
I'm having a problem with a View not showing up on an affiliate domain.
There are two new domains which are both to serve up the same content as another existing domain. All content to be served resides in the Drupal database.
We have two main sites w/content, a US version and a European version. The new domains are to serve up the European site.
I added the two new domain records via the domain access module and then went through and added those two new domains to the "Publish to" for all affiliate content that was currently on the European site.
I went through Pages and modified the selection rules to include the new domains.
The particular page has a pane containing a view. That page is at the url 'xxx/press'.
On the Euro site, everything works fine. On the new domains, all content shows and menus work except on the xx/press page, the view doesn't show. The page is coming up and the header node shows so it's just the specific view.
Since that view is on a Page content-type and that Page has selection rules which specify the new domains as a means to show, I'm not sure why it's not showing up.
Is there anywhere else besides the selection-rules of the actual Page that the view is being called on that could limit when/where that View shows?
I found the answer. Too much control!! For the record, in the Views there was one language setting under Filters and the language setting of the new domains didn't match that one.
Amazing that exclusion of content occurs in so many areas and ways! It's like visiting Photoshop all over again and looking at ways to make drop shadows.