| Sharing analytics with client | DBLU | 5/27/12 9:38 AM | Does anyone withhold any information from your client regarding the analytics reports? I can see where it would be beneficial to not give away all of the secrets, so to speak! I have wondered this and wanted to post. Hope the Holiday Weekend is a |
| Re: Sharing analytics with client | Sampatirao | 5/27/12 10:10 PM | DBLU, You can create only two kinds of users at GA, one with only user access and other with Admin access. User: Can able to see all the reports, and you can't restrict user to some of the reports under your profile. Admin: Can able to see the config |
| Re: Sharing analytics with client | Whims | 6/2/12 9:30 PM | You could create a new profile going forward for the same web property ID, apply filters to filter out the undesireable information and then allow a user only access to that particular profile. This wont help though with any previously created profi |
| Re: Sharing analytics with client | JonathanRElder | 6/22/12 8:18 AM | Is it for their site? I always give full admin access to the clients - and ask them not to change anything. If the worst happens an I get run over or the company closes it's doors, at least they have this, and the transparency many mean a few extra |
| Re: Sharing analytics with client | canitmaketea.com | 7/19/12 2:35 PM | Hi DBLU, I know what you are saying, to keep the business don't give them the keys. I create the client website using their own google email and password ( So its clear who the site belongs too). Give them the details and then show them how to add my |
| Re: Sharing analytics with client | Alan Fuller | 7/20/12 12:52 AM | Generally, I'm not sure what you would want to hide from a client? I have two sorts of clients, those that want access (and normally have access before I came along) and those that wouldn't even know how to log-in. I feel, in principal, if you hide t |
| Re: Sharing analytics with client | Whims | 7/20/12 1:44 AM | I have to agree.. disclosure is usually the best policy in most cases. Having said that though. occasionally you can run up against clients similar to the one in this cartoon: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell In which case you are then left |
| Re: Sharing analytics with client | DBLU | 7/20/12 5:50 AM | Thank you all for the answers... I do completely agree with the moral or ethic issue involved. It is also quite a bit easier to continue to add them as a user or have them add me as a user with full access to reports. The information that I am curi |
| Re: Sharing analytics with client | canitmaketea.com | 7/20/12 6:56 AM | Hi DBLU,I was going to write: Until Webmaster tools is 'One with analytics' asking nicely for someone to take the time to set it up (chargeable), it is going to be clunky for sure. Getting Keywords and SEO Will be make your job harder.But without int |