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Old 05-06-2009
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Default Don't EVER attempt to change your Google identity

I was told by my accountant that because I incorporated all my various web and internet endeavors last year, I needed to get all my various income and expense accounts into my company's name. Of course, AdSense is a significant portion of that. But they don't offer you the ability to just change your tax ID and payable. That would be too easy. You have to request a whole new account.
So I did, and it was approved within a couple of days, which is nice. But then came the business of trying to move things over - and that's where the nightmare comes in.
There's no easy way to export your ads or channels or reports, or any of that stuff from your existing AdSense account. That's been taking me the better part of a month (and that's only for one site - I have a lot more)
I got some assistance on getting my old AdSense account unhooked from my Analytics, but apparently I can't hook the new one to my Analytics, because they are different Google Accounts. I can create a new Analytics account under the new Google Account, but then I lose years worth of data. Not an option. So no AdSense/Analytics hookup.
I have a lot of custom search engines created in Google CSE. I can unhook them from my old AdSense account, but I can't hook them to my new account - it says I don't have AdSense for Search set up. Well no, all my search stuff was created in CSE. I have to re-create hundreds of search boxes and code results pages now too?
Not to mention the other services, like iGoogle, and my AdWords account (AdWords doesn't seem to have a problem with my corporate identity) These things are important, because they allow me to keep a lot of the site feeds and bookmarks I need to keep synced on different computers - but between my own accounts and my client accounts, I'm bopping in and out of different Google accounts a hundred times a day, because there's no way to be in more than one at the same time unless you use different browsers - I'm up to three, I need 22 more browsers to cover all my accounts.
ALL of this could have been spared had Google let me change my tax ID number. That's all.
Now I'm looking at significant downtime, right at my peak season, and I'll probably never get back everything I had working on the old account, or get the same data and the same reports and same search engines as I was.
And of course, all through this, I can't get any support. If I send an email to support, it just bounces back and tells me to get USER support in the forums. Well I don't think USER support is going to do me any good here.
I guess nobody else in the history of Google ever tried to do this before, because there's absolutely no clear or easy way to do it.
Whatever account or payable you have now - keep it for life.











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I was told by my accountant that because I incorporated all my various web and internet endeavors last year, I needed to get all my various income and expense accounts into my company's name. Of course, AdSense is a significant portion of that. But they don't offer you the ability to just change your tax ID and payable. That would be too easy. You have to request a whole new account.
So I did, and it was approved within a couple of days, which is nice. But then came the business of trying to move things over - and that's where the nightmare comes in.
There's no easy way to export your ads or channels or reports, or any of that stuff from your existing AdSense account. That's been taking me the better part of a month (and that's only for one site - I have a lot more)
I got some assistance on getting my old AdSense account unhooked from my Analytics, but apparently I can't hook the new one to my Analytics, because they are different Google Accounts. I can create a new Analytics account under the new Google Account, but then I lose years worth of data. Not an option. So no AdSense/Analytics hookup.
I have a lot of custom search engines created in Google CSE. I can unhook them from my old AdSense account, but I can't hook them to my new account - it says I don't have AdSense for Search set up. Well no, all my search stuff was created in CSE. I have to re-create hundreds of search boxes and code results pages now too?
Not to mention the other services, like iGoogle, and my AdWords account (AdWords doesn't seem to have a problem with my corporate identity) These things are important, because they allow me to keep a lot of the site feeds and bookmarks I need to keep synced on different computers - but between my own accounts and my client accounts, I'm bopping in and out of different Google accounts a hundred times a day, because there's no way to be in more than one at the same time unless you use different browsers - I'm up to three, I need 22 more browsers to cover all my accounts.
ALL of this could have been spared had Google let me change my tax ID number. That's all.
Now I'm looking at significant downtime, right at my peak season, and I'll probably never get back everything I had working on the old account, or get the same data and the same reports and same search engines as I was.
And of course, all through this, I can't get any support. If I send an email to support, it just bounces back and tells me to get USER support in the forums. Well I don't think USER support is going to do me any good here.
I guess nobody else in the history of Google ever tried to do this before, because there's absolutely no clear or easy way to do it.
Whatever account or payable you have now - keep it for life.











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