Comments on: Why Won’t Google Analytics Let Me Remove Accounts?

By: seo

seo — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:25:56 +0000

Same deal here. Very bad.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:02:14 +0000

I still have nearly a dozen dead ones like this – Really frustrating! Oh well – Fixing it won’t make google any money, so it’s probably not high on their list to fix… (like reporting paid links is)

By: Michael Merrell

Michael Merrell — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:34:24 +0000

I am having this same issue. I left my employer back in March of last year and prior to leaving I had them grant access to my account to view statistics on several of the websites.

Now they have removed my access to those websites, but not to the account itself. So I have this empty account there that I can’t view and can’t remove.

It is very frustrating. Even more so to see that they have a thread in their support forum where a Google Employee responded but still nothing as been done.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Analytics/thread?tid=608f5dcd377c5a54&hl=en

By: Chad

Chad — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:13:51 +0000

Google is getting worse and worse. I keep trying to love them but this is terrible. A simple delete button could solve this entire issue. Sometimes I wonder if Google really wants to make peoples lives more difficult. I hope they find a solution for this soon. I am loosing my faith in Google.

By: Pen

Pen — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:40:00 +0000

Very frustrating – I have 3 identical listings of my new website in my Google Analytics account. I am the admin of this account and I tried deleting the duplicates by clicking edit and delete, but they are still there. There does not seem to be a way to delete them or to contact Google directly. Does anyone know the Google contact URL?

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:57:47 +0000

This is ridiculous. It’s amazing how much of a problem this is. I’m having some other issues as well with using Google services with a non gmail account. Please fix this Google.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:02:54 +0000

Looks like you CAN actually delete them now, but only if there’s no Adwords account associated. I was able to free up a handful in mid May (see comments above) but still am stuck with outdated ones because they’re somehow linked to adwords accounts. How screwy…

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:51:09 +0000

This is driving me crazy. I have a analytic account that i watched when i was helping with a site. The guy has since closed his doors and I have never heard from him again. Oh yea he lives in the UK. Soooooo are we just screwed and have to look at it for the rest of your lives?

By: Amit Patekar

Amit Patekar — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:04:11 +0000

Yaa, this is insane, how can a company like google do such thing. I am sure there is some kind of hidden profit or problem. Let me also know if this is possible in future. Just a delete button will do. Simple and sweet.
Thanks and regards
Amit Patekar

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:04:05 +0000

As far as I know, even after 2 or 3 years of requests, pleading and begging Google refuses to allow millions of its users to delete accounts in Analytics that they are not an admin for. Absolutely insane. Please let me know if this EVER changes.