Website segments (directories) in GWT

[vlexo]

Has anyone setup website segments in GWT before?

i.e. can we setup segments for these:
http://www.example.com/
http://www.example.com/news/

Our website is quite large, so we don't get much keyword data for the /news/ section under 'Top Pages' in GWT. So this would be a potential workaround. Has anyone else done this before?

Cheers.

[edited by: goodroi at 3:34 pm (utc) on Jan 29, 2015]
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[lucy24]

Has anyone else done this before?

Never mind has-anyone-done-it. Can it be done? Subdomains, yes. With-and-without www, absolutely. But directories? I don't remember seeing any discussion of it.

[vlexo]

You can definitely add sub-directories.

Unfortunately none of the categories on my site get visits from organic search, so I really can't test this properly. Though, I may try it on one of my websites. In fact, if I can do this on a subdirectory, I wonder if I could do this for a single post - that I know is getting traffic from organic search?

I'll test this and report back here.

[edited by: aakk9999 at 4:18 pm (utc) on Jan 30, 2015]

[Collieman]

Yes. We use wmt for a sub directory
No problems other than some of the information will only show at root level

[vlexo]

@Collieman: Does this mean you'll only get keyword information and top pages for that specific sub-directory?

Could you expand on your second point please?

Thanks!

[aakk9999]

I use language subdirectories with no problems and as Collieman said above, some info shows only at root level.

But search queries do show at subdirectory level, hopefully this will give you an insight you wish for.

[Collieman]

Hello Vlexo

Just had a quick look - the crawl stats don't show at directory level but everything else i look for
Queries
Traffic
Internal links
and so on
They are there

I remember now i set this up as a way to geotarget the subdirectory.
Not sure how successful that is though as the traffic is still getting established

But yes it is an interesting way to use G WMT

Thank you

Colin

[vlexo]

Hi @Collieman @aakk9999

Thank you both. I've now submitted a request for this. It's good that the queries, traffic, and internal/external link data is specific to those sub-directories. Makes it easier to identify certain sections of the site.