Comments on: Google Analytics Trap

By: xavierfrancis

xavierfrancis — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:56:05 +0000

@Vlad Mayzel:
Motive? I'll hazard a guess that perhaps this type of functionality could be bundled into a subscription paid service in future for businesses/professionals managing multiple accounts in future e.g. Google Advertising Professionals. Many successful SAAS businesses are based on this free account vs premium subscription model. Monetization…

Currently, we're all just getting hooked on using free GA heroin and down the track we may eventually demand more depth from our GA accounts, Analytics, AdWords etc.

Or less cynically, perhaps the developers just need more time to properly test an account transfer system, for security's sake… Hahah maybe– yeah right

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:06:31 +0000

I admire Google as a company but it really can get frustrating when they work in kind of a monopoly effect (ie… forcing you to get a GMail account to use other services). I wasnt a fan when Microsoft did it with Windows and I can see it coming with Google.

By: lunaticg

lunaticg — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:16:53 +0000

Thank you for sharing. This really help me to understand google analytics. lunaticgs last blog post..My 7 June 2009 Coin Hunting Trip in Butterworth Roadwalk

By: Vlad Mayzel

Vlad Mayzel — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:40:14 +0000

We’ve been fighting with this problem ever since Google created their Analytics service. Our clients switch to us from other providers and every time there is a big or a small drama around Analytics. We reported to Google so many times, but it seems it is not on anyone’s list of concerns. As a business analyst i can confirm that it is a very real problem for businesses, yet we could not figure out what is the motive for Google to maintain staus-quo. If it was not on purpose i bet technically it is very simple to fix, so they must have some reasons for it which is a mystery to me what can they gain from it?

By: Jeff in Hawaii

Jeff in Hawaii — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:06:31 +0000

Wow – I never know that if you made someone an administrator for one of your sites they actually would be for all the ones in your account. That is pretty scary stuff. You would think they would allow you to specify that user to only one site in your account and not all of them.. maybe because it is free.

That is a bummer to about not being able to export the data from an account. If you were to purchase a site it would be a good thing to transfer all that data.

By: SiteOptimized

SiteOptimized — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:25:52 +0000

Kelby is right. If you make someone an administrator, they are able to act as administrators for ALL if your accounts not just for a single domain.
This is a serious flaw.

By: Kelby Carr

Kelby Carr — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:12:15 +0000

Yes, but that doesn’t work if you have more than one client or you have your personal web sites plus a former employee or client’s web sites. You would have to hand all your site’s data over to them.

By: LoRaK

LoRaK — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:34:43 +0000

The new account (a.k.a. user) has to be added as administrator for the given profile on the old account.
After logging in to the new account you will be able to access the profile and edit the users for it.
You can now remove the old account (the design firm) from the list.

By: Elisa

Elisa — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:56:10 +0000

Wow, great post!

I just moved to self-hosted WP and I’m only now realizing how limited Google Analytics is when modifications need to be made. I guess I have to start from scratch!

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By: Michael Stalker

Michael Stalker — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:32:01 +0000

Thanks for the post, Kelby! Here’s a Google employee that confirms what you said. http://tinyurl.com/cf92gb

I’m on the other side of the fence–I’m setting up a Google Analytics account for a client, and I want to make sure they can take the data with them if they decide to move to a different web development company. I’ll look into setting up a separate account for the client.