We setup a new Google Analytics account for the new domain but the old one is still there

[Lucidica]

Hi,

Our company has changed their domain almost a year ago and after the migration, they created a new Google Analytics account rather than changing the address on the existing GA account. Now I can still see that Google indexing the old domain. Just wanted to ask if we can still tell Google that we've changed the domain on the old one? Or, should we just go ahead and use the new one and delete the old one?

Very confusing, but our traffic is constantly dropping although we rank for on the first page for tracked keywords, just want to understand if there is a connection between the organic traffic droppings and not telling Google we've changed the domain.

Thanks!

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[Lucidica]

Hi,

Thank you for the answer Martjin.

To be honest, we've done a full audit and we realised that around the migration, redirects weren't configured right, we had broken and out-dated pages and many more. After the full audit, our rankings have recovered, actually, we started to rank much better when you compare to our old good days. Somehow, our organic traffic is dropping every day and we can't understand what should be causing this issue. Very frustrating.

Anyways, thanks again for the explanation. At least we know that GA account is not the case.

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi,

I'm sorry to say, but there is no connection whatsoever between data (or settings) in Google Analytics and how you're ranking. So changing the settings on your Google Analytics account or changing the domain name in the settings wouldn't impact your rankings (at all!). I'd likely try to find the cure for what you're trying to accomplish somewhere else. Are there any other changes that you've made and is there anything that you've done around the migration of the domains that could have gone wrong?