This is a followup to the previous two articles about adding users to MSN adCenter and Yahoo Search Marketing PPC advertising platforms. In this article I'll walk you through adding a new user to your Google Analytics statistics account.
This article explains how to add new users to Google Analytics. As of this writing, Google Analytics offers two different access levels you can assign to new users. This allows you to have a user or group of users act as administrators, with full control over the account, and also to have a user or group of users have access only to the reports and not to any of the administration features that would give someone full control over the account.
In order to access a client’s Analytics reports, I prefer to have that client add me as a user with access only to the account reports. This allows me to log in and review that client’s reports through my existing account dashboard. This makes it really easy to keep an eye on a number of different client accounts all at once.
Here’s how to get that done.
- Log in to Analytics
- Scroll down on the homepage and click the link that says “User Manager” as seen below.
The Analytics Home Screen
- Toward the top right of the User management table, click the “Add new user +” button as seen below.
The User Manager
- Enter the user’s email address. It’s important to note here that this email address must already be associated with a Google account, so it’s important to enter the correct email address. If you’re one of my clients, use my johncrenshaw.net email address. Otherwise ask the person you’re trying to add to your account which email to use.
- Select “View reports only” in the Access type drop down menu.
- Finally, and this is a killer feature of Analytics, you can assign access to website profiles individually. If you’re only tracking one website with Analytics, you won’t have much to choose here, but if you’re using Analytics to track more than one website, you should see a list of all your sites. You can select any or all of the sites to control which of those this new user will have access to.
- Hit “Save Changes” and you’re done.
Adding the New User
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