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[tambre]

Hello all,

I have an analytics account and perhaps I was mistaken about where to set them up. I made a master account and started creating profiles for my clients and I was stopped.

Add Website Profile »
You have reached the maximum number of website profiles allowed.

When I checked in the Google Analytics help section they said:

Google Analytics will track as many websites as you own! You're limited only by the 5 million pageview limit per month - but even that is removed if you're also an active AdWords user. We've provided multiple profiles in your account, so you can view individual reports for specific domains or subdomains.

Should I have created different accounts and not one master account with a lot of profiles?

thanks!
-sam

[joedolson]

Huh. How many do you have? As much as they claim there's no limit, it seems entirely likely that there really is one...or, that there's a limit per account and after that you need additional accounts after that point...

However, it does SAY there's no limit...so I can't help but be curious!

I haven't approached that limit myself...but then, I do actually have three accounts.

[tambre]

it capped me at 50....

[joedolson]

Well, I'd consider that a little surprising, given their claims...

I can't really help you, here...I'm just curious...

[sonjay]

Google set that whole thing up quite weirdly. You can have up to 50 website profiles in one "Account," and then you have to create another account.

But, it doesn't have to be a whole separate account with a separate login. Up in the top right, in the orange bar, where it says "My Analytics Accounts," pull down that drop-down menu and choose "Create new account" and give your new account a name.

Now you can put 50 more website profiles into that account.

I don't know if there's a limit to the number of "Accounts" you can have under a single log-in. I have 4 accounts currently (although only one of them has the maximum of 50 website profiles). Once I realized how Google was forcing us to handle that, I started setting up separate accounts for my clients that have more than one web site, so that I could organize them a little better.

Unfortunately, my initial account has a number of sites that I'd rather group under their own account, but it doesn't appear that you can move a site from one account to another without losing all of the historical data, so I'm kind of stuck leaving those where they are.

Edited by sonjay, 20 September 2007 - 03:27 PM.

[tambre]

joedolson: thats ok I'm rather curious too considering they said it's unlimited. but maybe I'm not setting it up correctly

sonjay: ahh, i see. I had been wondering if I could create a new account that way. Mmm... well, now I need to rethink the structure since you can't move the accounts around, which seems a little bothersome to me. Oh well. Thanks for the help

Edited by tambre, 20 September 2007 - 03:30 PM.

[glyn]

:mr_rant: Google Analytics, what a great way to check for emerging keywords and bill for them. :mr_rant:

[bobbb]

Umm, is anything free?

[glyn]

Plenty... :disco2:

[bobbb]

OK, I'm game. What are some.

Maybe I should re-phrase that. Is there anything someone will give you so you can make money and not be some payback for the giver? This is really what I meant.

Here's another for Google:
Firefox 3 Antiphishing Sends Your URLs To Google: http://yro.slashdot....7/09/25/1622229

Edited by bobbb, 25 September 2007 - 02:53 PM.

[JohnMu]

You can also check your keywords in your Google Webmaster tools account (after verifying site ownership). It even tells you which keywords you rank for but don't get clicks for -- even more to bill for

I'll leave the question of whether or not you'd bill that or whether or not you'd agree to pay for potential future keyword rankings out. I think that's something everyone has to work out between SEO consultant and website owner

John

[bobbb]

check your keywords in your Google Webmaster tools account

Yes I check that and I'm not saying there is anything wrong with what G is doing. Their business is data and searches and keywords. They are doing what they need to do to get infomation. So you give a little.

What they give me helps me. What I give in return helps them.

Edited by bobbb, 25 September 2007 - 03:07 PM.

[glyn]

For a start sites that link to you because they actually think that your site is of interest to their users. NO COST

Google will give you their spider and your website will get listed organically.

[eternal_seo]

I think its a good practice to have separate accounts for different clients, and you should have it with clients login, because if client for some reason want to leave you, then you want have difficulty giving him access. Otherwise it would be big problem.

Just my 2 cents as newbie.

[tambre]

Thanks eternal_seo. Thats a really good point and idea.

Because I had thought I could have an unlimited number of reports in one account I was setting it up so that I could restrict access to my clients, so they could only see the reports I allow them too. It's the same idea as what you suggested, but if I had known that Analytics capped me at 50 reports in an account I would have done separate accounts... As sonjay mentioned earlier it doesn't appear as if the reports can be moved from one another to another or even to their own account. Bummer.

[EGOL]

Some clients may not want to have their sites associated with others via a common account.

[tambre]

Maybe I'm more confused than I thought but I thought if I restricted client access they would only access their report and never know they would be in a larger account and associated with others in a common account .
By being in the same master account as the admin I would see that they would be associated and in the same area but would that effect my clients? And if it does how would it?

Thanks,
-sam

[Justin-Goldberg]

Tambre, I've run into that problem with analytics and hittail too. They can have administrative access which lets them add other administrators and viewers, but it gives them access to all my accounts, even my personal sites. On the other hand, perhaps the best practive is to give up access by making them the admin if/when they find someone else, and they then can remove my access, I assume? :pieinface:

Oh, BTW, I've never lost a client, although I've only worked on small business sites.

Edited by Justin-Goldberg, 26 September 2007 - 08:26 PM.