Difference between landingPagePath and pagePath

[Aaron]

Hi,

I'm trying to extract a list of all keywords that drove search engine
traffic to my site on a page by page basis.

After reading the docs, I am still confused as to what the difference
between pagePath and landingPagePath is. I want to show stats for the
actual pages users clicked on in the search engines. So, should this
be landingPagePath and not pagePath?

Thus far, my query is as follows:
dimensions:ga:hostname,ga:pagePath,ga:keyword,ga:source
metrics:ga:pageviews,ga:uniquePageviews
filters:ga:medium==organic

Thanks!

[Nick]

HI Aaron,

landingPagePath is defined as the first page view tracked in a session

pagePage is defined as any page view tracked

Search keywords are a type of referral (or referral campaign). So if you want to know which keywords referred visitors to a particular page, you use their entrance page (landingPagePath). If you want to know which keywords referred visitors to your site, who saw some pages and viewed a particular page in the same session, you use the pagePath.

Both are valid queries and answer different business questions.

-Nick

[Mv analytics]

Hi,

I'm trying to have in API, to have the same data like in analytics. But i don't succeed to have the data under Site Content -> All Page -> Page

I'm using VBA functions for google analytics:

Metric = visits&pageviews

Dimensions = PagePath&LandingPagePath

Actually the colums ga:visits is returning back the number of entrances (comparing data with analytics)

Which dimensions an metrics i have to use, to display correctly Page? 

Can You help on that ?

Simon

[rbaans]

Hi there,

If you like to know which pages people clicked on and with which keyword you can better use dimension ga:landingPagePath in combination with ga:keyword and medium==organic. For metics use ga:entrances and i would also use ga:entranceBounceRate so you can check the quality of the keyword.

PagePath is valid if you like to know if a page was visited by someone who came to your site via a search engine. So in this case it might not be the startingpage of the visit.

Cheers!

Op woensdag 29 augustus 2012 15:15:32 UTC+2 schreef Mv analytics het volgende:

[Mv analytics]

Hi rbaans,

Thanks for the reply but in fact, i don't want to track the keyword, just all pages visited. I can not find the combination to display like (from google analytics):

Page, UniquepageViews from the Site Content area

Does someone knows the ga dimension / metric to display Page, UniquepageViews ?

I found ga:uniquePageviews for UniquepageViews but for the Page , which on it is ?

Thanks

[Mv analytics]

hi

i found what i was searching for on, http://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/explorer/

Cheers

[rbaans]

Hi MV analytics,

My mistake. My reply had to be on Aaron original request :)) 

Good to hear you solved your problem.

Cheers!