Provide access to full referral path

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Name of API affected:
Analytics Data Export API

Request summary:
The API should provide a new dimension for the full referral path - including 
search engines. This would allow easy and straightforward passive SERP tracking.

It has multiple advantages: 
1. not being forced to do active SERP tracking (breaks TOS)  
2. no need to create script/filter to do passive SERP ("out of the box")
3. works for historic data (since data is still there I assume) 

discussion: 
http://groups.google.com/group/google-analytics-data-export-api/browse_thread/th
read/eaedcb69605b7abc

Use Cases:
Users can query the API for the full referral path and the used keyword for 
visits from search engines - via a script the according parameter(s) can be 
extracted. The user then can easily track the ranking of keywords and monitor 
their change. Furthermore segmentation by country can yield additional insights 
into region-specific ranking.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by stephan....@gmail.com on 9 Jan 2011 at 12:11

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Rather than (or in addition to) the full referral path, they could add 
"ga:averageRank" as a dimension. That way GA does the aggregation against 
arbitrary other dimensions - not just pagePath.

Original comment by back5...@gmail.com on 14 Jan 2011 at 2:54

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Well that's a completely different story and while being a very valuable piece 
of information, the full referral path is so more powerful. As Google becomes 
more and more individual for different locations & users, it's much more 
interesting to see what page rank your site has for keyword X in country Y and 
so on. This way a very detailed analysis could be made - much better than with 
only an average rank, if that even exists.

Original comment by stephan....@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2011 at 5:00

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Removing an obsolete label that was used when these issues were in the 
gdata-issues project.

Original comment by jrobbins@google.com on 21 Jul 2011 at 10:04

• Removed labels: API-Analytics

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Changing the issue type to match the organization desired in this project.

Original comment by jrobbins@google.com on 21 Jul 2011 at 10:06

• Added labels: Type-Feature

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see 
http://analytics.blogspot.com/2013/07/40-new-data-points-in-google-analytics.htm
l and
changelog for Release 2013-07-09 (July 9, 2013)
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/v3/changelog

Original comment by pfrise...@google.com on 9 Jul 2013 at 6:07

• Changed state: Fixed