Building your segments as expected is a critical, and sometimes complex task. The following examples help you understand how to build segments for the most effective targeting:
For information about building segments, see Creating and managing segments, which includes a list of default segment criteria that are available for your use.
Geolocation segments
You can create a geolocation segment for an entire country by searching for a country in the Find Country field.
Current Location : Country — Matches One [AU]
You can create a larger segment by combining countries, such as creating a North America segment by identifying users whose country is Canada, the United States, or Mexico. Conversely, if you want to target highly-specific areas, geolocation segments can also be as small as a postal code, city, or suburb.
Device type
By examining your users’ platform, you can identify visitors using mobile phones or tablets to visit your website.
Current System Info : Platform — Matches One [Mobile]
Marketing campaign referral
If you’re using UTM codes on your marketing campaigns, you can identify
visitors referred through an email link by matching UTM query strings in
URLs, such as utm_source=email or utm_campaign=campaign-name, to
the Segment Criteria field in Personalization. For more information about
available fields, see External Campaign.
First-time visitor
By targeting Frequency, you can identify first-time visitors to your website.
Event Count based on visitor’s history
Identifying users who have at least exactly one Content View event during the range. For example, Sept 01, 2023 - Sept 12, 2023.
Identifying users who have exactly one Content View event for the past 2 days from the current date.
Behavioral-based segment
By identifying users who view a specific page more than once, you can target visitors with a stronger interest in a topic.
Preferred content types
You can identify browsing behavior by identifying users according to the
Favorite Content Type. You can also combine several criteria to build
a more complex segment as shown in the following example, which looks for
visitors who have viewed more than three pieces of content in the past
30 days containing the string /health in the URL.
For more information about other default properties attached to visitors, see Person properties.
Multiple Page Views in a touch
You can identify visitors who view the number of pages you specify during a single touch of your website:
Touch : Number of Page Views — >= [2]
Event-based
You can identify users who perform a specified action on your website, such as subscribing to a newsletter. For more information, see Creating and managing events.
Shopping cart abandonment
You can identify users who have performed events external to your system if you have created a custom event connecting the system to Personalization. For example, visitors who have abandoned a shopping cart with items in it can be targeted with Event: Abandoned Cart. For more information, see Creating and managing events.