It had to happen sooner or later, one of my Google Analytic accounts has reached the limit of 50 domains!

Yes I know I didn’t realise that there was a limit either. Now I can’t add anymore domains to the current setup.

It’s not a big limitation as I can split up the domains by client and create new accounts for each.

When I say account I don’t mean register a new email, Google is confusing about this; you have an account that you login to, but with analytics you have accounts within that account (you can also have other peoples accounts on there and view them as an admin or read only) I can see why they call them accounts but most of the time people would use them to group their domains. Maybe it should be “external accounts and groups” or that might too much too.

Anyway I wish I had discovered this when I set the accounts up in the first place as I would have structured everything by client. I can do that now but the old data will have to rest under that old sub-account as it cannot be3 moved.

So it will look something like this:

My Main Google account (the one I use for email etc.)

Client 1 - Main domain sub account

Client 1 - 2nd domain

Client 1 - 3rd domain

Client 1 - filtered content

Client 2 - Main domain sub account

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Client 3 - Main domain sub account

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Client 4 - Main domain sub account

And so on…

That would have been a lot tidier then the 1 big account and if I had known the 50 limit I would have done that from the start.

A friend told me (not seen any evidence yet) that there is a 100 limit on sub-accounts so that makes 100×50= 5000 domains I guess that’s generous for free and you can always use another email to create a brand new account.

See you later.

Cheers

Dave

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