Comments on: Google Analytics: Account and Profile issues

By: Jeroen Stoker

Jeroen Stoker — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:59:27 +0000

I am having the same problem here, i can only create up to 25 accounts…

By: Predrag Jivici

Predrag Jivici — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:10:03 +0000

I’m stuck in the same situation, to many profiles not linked to any adwords, and still no solution. I’m starting to create new accounts for each profile, but I’m loosing all the analytics data and I’m not very happy about it.

You cannot currently transfer profiles or account data from one Analytics account to another Analytics account.

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:04:13 +0000

Hi Kirk, and thanks for the great comment! Always appreciated.

It’s the rigidity of Google’s software that often frustrates me — like not being able to set the time zone of my Analytics account to GMT 0 without sending them a written, signed letter! I mean, that’s just bizarre, isn’t it?

So this topic’s been on my mind for quite some time, and recently I broadened the scope of my criticisms of the (not so) great Google empire to include an case for combining Google FeedBurner, Analytics and Webmaster Tools…

By: Kirk

Kirk — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:22:19 +0000

Can’t understand how Google can envision so many integrated capabilities and miss something as fundamental as recognizing that a service provider would need to manage multiple AdWord and Analytic accounts and link them together under a single login.

Like so many others, I too have many web profiles within a single Analytic account. I had planned to have multiple AdWord campaigns withing a single AdWord account. My thinking was to link each campaign to a specific web profile. I also assumed each campaign would have a separate budget and billing, but it doesn’t work that way.

Google does offer an MCC account that will allow you to easily switch between multiple AdWord accounts, but it doesn’t offer a similar capability for easily switching between multiple Analytic accounts.

Apparently you can ultimately get there, but you have to orchestrate the creation of many accounts with many different email addresses. It’s an administrative burden to say the least for the service provider. And then of course, as you rightly point out, you can’t migrate your web profile to the new account. Let’s hope they recognize the problem and work toward a solution so others don’t fall into the same trap.

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:20:00 +0000

Hi James, the Access Manager is only used for giving out user privileges and doesn’t cover actual Accounts or Profiles in that way.

I’ve got most of my clients signed up to their Profiles with just read rights, rather than as administrators.

Thanks for your suggestions, anyway…

By: James

James — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:35:00 +0000

There us a section called Access Manager which gives different levels of admin privileges to the account for a new user. Have you tried this?

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:22:00 +0000

Hi erik, and thanks for the comments.

Google must have seen that problem coming when they limited accounts way back when.

A migration tool would be useful...

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:56:00 +0000

Agreed. I have the same problems with linking my accounts. I set up a bunch of analytics profiles within my account before I knew I needed AdWords to have their own analytics accounts… now I’m screwed because I’m collecting data to profiles I can’t link.