Comments on: Use Google Analytics Advanced Segments To Find The Real Questions Your Visitors Ask

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:37:46 +0000

In reply to Jennifer.

Jennifer, it should appear under Advanced Segments

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:36:43 +0000

Yes, the process is slightly different nowadays (as GA has a new interface) but essentially follows this same flow. I find it tremendously interesting to see the (type of) questions people ask that lead to your site. Thanks for the comment, Susan.

By: Susan Walsh

Susan Walsh — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:49:17 +0000

Great post Rudd. I need to get into using Google Analytics more than just looking a “keywords” or how many visitors.

I love “how to, step by step posts, like you have done here. I’m going to give this one a try.

Thanks!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:48:58 +0000

I loved the post, but feel like a dunce, because I could not get it to work like you said. I followed the steps, at least I think I did and could not get to the part where I could see what questions people used to find my information.

Jenn

By: Peter Fox

Peter Fox — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:00:58 +0000

I confess I don’t use Google analytics, I still have a reluctance to ket a search engine know too much about my site and it’s visitors. My own stats tell me which keyphrases people use to find my site so I dig out a thesaurus and work on similar, but not identical, terms. It may or may not be coincidental but I find that the sites I have applied this logic to inevitably do better in the SERPs for the original chosen phrases, Google semms to like plenty of synonyms in my experience. Anyhow, good luck to all!

By: Gabriel LopezSeco

Gabriel LopezSeco — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:55:05 +0000

I too have found creating custom traffic reporting rules to be very beneficial in identifying entrance source keywords and traffic patterns.

Thanks for a great article, love the details.

By: Patrice Collin

Patrice Collin — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 01:28:59 +0000

A Big Thanks for this! I love the fact that we can share Segments so easily, we use this extensively in our de-centralized Web structure.

We are a comms shop and so this segment is really gold for us in improving our content and also getting a better handle on our visitors.

Keep them coming, much appreciated!

By: JB

JB — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 19:09:34 +0000

Briiliant SEO tactics. Thankyou for sharing… it makes the world a better place to enlighten an spread the light. I love google analytics this will help me in many ways, in blogging and seo.\

Peace.

By: Tim Leighton-Boyce

Tim Leighton-Boyce — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:39:16 +0000

I really like these detailed, step by step, examples of how to get actionable information out of Google Analytics.

It might be worth applying the same technique to your on-site search (build a GA custom segment around ‘search term’ instead of ‘keyword’).

My suspicion is that the on-site searches will be much shorter and lacking the specific words, but any that you do find will be very valuable. These people were on your site and asking about whatever. They think your site could help them. That’s gold dust.
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By: Ela

Ela — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:43:24 +0000

This was really helpful, I found the words used in Romanian questions and created this segment – it’s a great universal idea. And thank you James for the tip on how to see only relevant
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