Back in October I mentioned Google Analytics new feature Advanced Segments, and how you can use it to track visitors coming in through email. Here is the post: How to Use Google Analytics to Track Your Email Campaigns. Since then I have become a big fan of this new feature, and as far as I am concerned, they can take the beta icon off it now. Below are a six of my favorites, and thanks to Google, they make them easy to share.
My Six Favorite Custom Advanced Segments
To add these to your Google Analytics account simply click on the link and then save it by clicking Create Segment. See screenshot below on how to save.
- Without Stumbleupon Traffic – Probably my favorite one here. With the occasional surge of traffic you may get from Stumbleupon, its traffic is sure to mess up your stats. Now you can look at stats without that traffic showing up. It may be a good idea to set up one these for Digg as well.
- Firefox Users – See stats made only by Firefox users
- Internet Explorer Users – See stats made only by IE users
- Mail – See when users are visiting your website from links found in web hosted email accounts
- Minus San Jose Traffic – I live in San Jose so I use this feature to block me out instead of IP filtering. Great for those of you that do not have a static IP. Just edit your city in the segment.
- Feedburner Traffic – Want to know how effective your RSS feed is? Most feed traffic does not come from Feedburner, but some do. I use this segment to track the traffic that does.
After clicking any of the links above you will need to save the advanced segment. To do this just click Create Segment. See screenshot. Obviously, you will also need to have a Google Analytics account already setup.
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You can segment it to Traffic Sources> Referring Sites » Referring Site Detail » You will get the direct link to the referral page. Clicking on that will take you to the specific page.
Also, Using Google Analytics you can find the referring sites only. I.e, You can see the sites only when people clicked the link from their site to reach us.
That is a way to see those stats, but with advanced segments you can apply the filter throughout all the analytics.
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I’m also very fond of the Stumble Upon Traffic Exclusion feature. It took me a while to find out why sometimes my stats were so odd, and when I saw that SU is to blame for that this feature came as a true blessing.
’m also very fond of the Stumble Upon Traffic Exclusion feature.
Big fan of stumbleupon.. and such an underrated source of traffic. I don’t mind it messing up my stats