How to Share Google Analytics Reports with Others

January 10th, 2009 | email this

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It has been many days I did not join any contest as participant or sponsor. Last time I participated in a contest, Blogging Idol, I was honoured by title of first blogging idol by Daniel at dailyblogtips.com by various prizes in cash and webmaster tools for winning the contest.

After spending some hectic time in immigrating to UK, I am right now recovering from jet lag, setting up myself into new country and getting back to my blogging and online ventures.

I am still not in a position that I can give enough time to all my projects but I am expecting to get into that mode very soon. One of the motivation is to participate in some good contests. Last time when I participated in Daniel’s contest, I spent all July month after my finance blog to make sure that I give my 100%.

This is my motivation this time while I participate in dollarshower.com’s SEO contest

Updating my blog very regularly: This time my motivation is not to win the contest but get back into mode of working hard on my blog. As per the rules of the contest, I am already far behing in the contest.

One of the requirement of the contest is to share your Google analytics report with dollarshower.com. I am thankful that he is not believing on the Alexa rank or any other reports that has high chances of manipulation.

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It was a question for me initially that how to share it, but I could figure out a way, and I am sure it would be a quick lesson for you too if you ever need to share your reports with anyone else.

Follow these steps:

1. Login to your Google Analytics
2. Go to Analytics Settings
3. Go to the bottom of the page and click on User Manager link
4. On next page, you would see a table with “Add User” link at right top
5. Give email ID of user you would like to share your Google Analytics report with and choose the website profiles that you would like to share reports of (whether you have one or more than one websites).
6. Add and Save changes, and the users you shared reports with would be able to see the Google Analytics statistics of your website in their Google account login.

I am sharing my stats right now for the contest (I made sure that he can only see my website profile that I want to share reports of by testing it with my another Google account), I would like to suggest you to go to the contest page and see how it goes.

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11 Responded To This Post

26365. Webkinz said in January 11th, 2009

That’s one thing I like more in google analytics than other statistic meters. Sharing stats for one site to one person in a time is really coll.

26370. Judit said in January 11th, 2009

Hmm, that would be a bit risky step. I am not sure if you also allowing them to see your search engine keyword statistics ? If yes, then they can use that data to collect valuable keywords that people look for. But if you can disallow that part of google analytics i am fine with the contest.

26373. Ajith Edassery | DollarShower said in January 11th, 2009

Thanks for the shout out Abhijit. Today is the last day for the enrollment.

@Judit, I am not an SEO expert or a business person in that line to make use of the shared data. My only aim was to make sure that the competition participation is fair and genuine. In fact, I spend a lot of hours on manaully analyzing all these data for no real benefits Since I got some sponsorships I thought of giving it away in a fair way (Further I work in the middle management role of one of the top 5 software giants in the world and I handle even very sensitive business data. You can trust me)

26387. SoLinkable said in January 11th, 2009

I second Judit’s worries. I would only use this method if it had a way of obscuring the keyword statistics. Traffic stats in general can be nerve-racking to share. I wouldn’t want to give away where I get most of my traffic from.

Anyway, with that being said, good luck with the contest!

26404. Krishna said in January 12th, 2009

This is really a cool idea. I am using it. Thanks for sharing

26428. Silvia said in January 12th, 2009

I have also seen some risk in that idea.Is the risk quite necessary here?

26456. Gesunde Ernährung said in January 14th, 2009

congratulations.Mere looking at the way you do blogging, you are a sure winner. about this google analytics, is this safe? sharing information to others?

26468. Monica- Savings said in January 14th, 2009

I enabled this feature sometime last year but went back to its default setting again. Not sure about how my data will be used - so the question of risk comes into play.

27285. Miami Design said in February 3rd, 2009

Can you share your goals? It’s 709 that month - is it just RSS subscription or you make other goals?

27364. Myers Briggs Test said in February 5th, 2009

Dang, I wish I would have known about this earlier. I usually just give people my login/pass which makes me uneasy because it also gives them access to my email and other accounts. I mean, I only give it out to people I trust but I still don’t like basically giving them FULL access to my online life.