How do I create a segment that shows me all pages using a certain keyword? But nothing that doesn't have that keyword?

[Patrick_at_Nebraska_Medicine]

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.

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[R0bin_L0rd]

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;

1. How many sessions visited Ortho pages at any point
2. 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;

1. The segment is showing you only sessions which included a visit to an Ortho page
2. 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!

[Patrick_at_Nebraska_Medicine]

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.

[R0bin_L0rd]

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?