Comments on: How to Set Up Your Google Analytics Account Structure to Avoid Headaches Later

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:21:58 +0000

Good tutorial and convinced me to start seperate GA accounts, i guess the only reason that someone would not want to have this recommended setup is because they want to keep a stronghold on the client, almost to ransom. However i think the pros of this setup outweigh the cons. Cheers.

By: Tim Schneider

Tim Schneider — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:12:31 +0000

In reply to Helen.

I think I get where you’re going – but the diagram was confusing.

In my example, consultantA@gmail.com is limited to 50 accounts under GA, which is why we never create the account in GA. The client creates the account and adds consultantA@gmail.com as admin.

I picture it with the client account on top, with ‘Your account’ added to each one as admin.

By: Tim Schneider

Tim Schneider — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:58:05 +0000

Have to disagree with the idea here.

In our experience, it is best to:

1.) Have the client create a generic gmail account for the company. This way, there is nothing tied to personal accounts. clientA@gmail.com

2.) Consultant/Agency should also have a generic account consultantA@gmail.com

3.) Provide the client with instructions on how to create a GA account and how to add consultantA@gmail.com admin access.

This set up has a number of benefits:

1.) Consultant will not run out of accounts in GA at 50 (happened to us) and can access set up and all admin features of clientA account

2.) Each client now has 50 accounts plus all the profiles under each account to work with.

3.) Client has control of GA access. Can stop consultant A from seeing data and add consultant B at any time.

4.) With no GA accounts tied to personal accounts, risk of losing access to data when someone leaves (happened to us) is mitigated.

By: Kelvin Jones

Kelvin Jones — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:58:37 +0000

Quite frankly Google really messed this one up…. you should be able to add sites under one account then just let users/clients have administrator rights to their own sites and not let administrators see all sites. Even a mid teir would help something like ‘power user’ where they can set goals, filters and the likes. ‘Admin’ is for the webmaster, ‘Power User’ for the clients web team and ‘User’ for third-parties and general staff that need the data only.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:38:45 +0000

How do you “unhook” a client account set up this way?

By: Data Entry Services

Data Entry Services — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:01:21 +0000

Thanks for the reminders. That’s pretty much what I’ve been doing.

By: Eden

Eden — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:50:00 +0000

So, it looks like I’ve set mine up incorrectly. I know how to set up a new account but how do I transfer “ownership”?

Also, having all of the comments on twitter really decreases the utility of the blog…unless they’re just reference links and not actually comments…