Google Analytics Best Practice Set up for Clients
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Hi When setting up new Google Analytics accounts for clinets what is the preferred/best practice.
At present we have our own company google account and add new clinets this way (to our account) - the disadvantage with this, we can only grant them limited account access otherwise they would be able to view all the accounts we cretaed.
Plus we can't link their adwords to the GA account we cretaed them.
Is it best practice to set the client up with their own Google Account and then we just link to their account.
Advise would be appreciated, thank you.
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I agree as well. Right now you can't hand off the analytics account if you and the client split ways, for one. For another, it's not just Google that can see which sites are related. Take a look at http://spyonweb.com/ -- put one of your clients in there, and you're likely to see all of your clients show up.
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From now on - I will create unique accounts for each client and link myself to their account.
Foe the simple reason when they start to run google ads they can not link their account
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What would be the disadvantage of Google knowing who your clients are? (Just wondering)
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using a tool like RoboForm helps outs...this can really help with alll the PW's...
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I would agree with using separate google accounts. I usually put everything like analytics, webmaster tools, youtube etc within a unique account for each client.
-Dan
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I'd be careful using GA for clients. If you link them in any way, google can easily see who all of your clients are. I think using a different tracker is preferable.
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