{"id":815,"date":"2020-04-23T20:18:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T00:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/?p=815"},"modified":"2025-03-20T09:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:37:20","slug":"gain-control-of-a-lost-google-analytics-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/gain-control-of-a-lost-google-analytics-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Gain Control of a lost Google Analytics Account"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">(In Theory)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Supposedly there is (finally) a process for getting control of lost google analytics accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;re in the middle of attempting this, so we&#8217;ll see where it goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The instructions we&#8217;ve found are here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/analytics\/troubleshooter\/7264014?hl=en&amp;ref_topic=1009691#ts=7271146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/support.google.com\/analytics\/troubleshooter\/7264014?hl=en&amp;ref_topic=1009691#ts=7271146<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and pretty much the same thing here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/analytics\/answer\/7268497#prove\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/support.google.com\/analytics\/answer\/7268497#prove<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part of the process is creating an analytics.txt in the web root of the site in question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>GooGhywoiu9839t543j0s7543uw1 - pls add {INSERT EMAIL ADDRESS} to GA account {INSERT UA-ID} with \u2018Manage Users and Edit\u2019 permissions - date {INSERT DATE}.<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The information gets submitted on this page:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/analytics\/contact\/adminleft_ga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/support.google.com\/analytics\/contact\/adminleft_ga<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It wants information about the previous owner, of which we know nothing, so we&#8217;ll see if google likes our worthless answers. (ie: unknown@unknown.com for the previous owner&#8217;s email address)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From poking around on different sites, we&#8217;ve gathered these tips:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Don&#8217;t include the &#8220;-1&#8221; at the end of the UA-ID, as that will reference only the one property, not the whole account.<\/li><li>The date needs to be MM\/DD\/YYYY format.<\/li><li>Google wants your adwords account information, so we had to create a new one for a customer who hadn&#8217;t used adwords before.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ll update this post as we find out more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This handy article got us pointed in the right direction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-data-driven-u\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"l9E0a4P4s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.datadrivenu.com\/recover-google-analytics-account\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How To Recover Your Google Analytics Account<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;How To Recover Your Google Analytics Account&#8221; &#8212; Data Driven U\" src=\"https:\/\/www.datadrivenu.com\/recover-google-analytics-account\/embed\/#?secret=l9E0a4P4s2\" data-secret=\"l9E0a4P4s2\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(In Theory) Supposedly there is (finally) a process for getting control of lost google analytics accounts. We&#8217;re in the middle of attempting this, so we&#8217;ll see where it goes. The instructions we&#8217;ve found are here: https:\/\/support.google.com\/analytics\/troubleshooter\/7264014?hl=en&amp;ref_topic=1009691#ts=7271146 and pretty much the same thing here: https:\/\/support.google.com\/analytics\/answer\/7268497#prove Part of the process is creating an analytics.txt in the web &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Gain Control of a lost Google Analytics Account\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/gain-control-of-a-lost-google-analytics-account\/#more-815\" aria-label=\"Read more about Gain Control of a lost Google Analytics Account\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}