Solution to Google Analytics asking me to Sign Up over and over again

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The solution is in knowing where to look, some people on the web have spent a couple of weeks trying various suggestions to get back into their google analytics account and I could easily have gone down that rabbit hole and tried a bunch of them tonight too except one little thing occurred to me - yesterday I had deleted an unused gmail account and it somehow rearranged my default gmail address log in. Could it be a coincidence?

It seemed like no big deal, I could still use all my gmail accounts. In fact I preferred the new default as it was my WA address. The big deal was when I tried to sign into Analytics BOOM it would offer me absolutely no way to sign in. It just kept telling me to sign up. Over and over. No matter how many times I opened the page. I may have thought it was a cache issue especially seeing as it was opening on another laptop, but before having to erase all my passwords I decided to pursue the default gmail account angle first. And thankfully I did, no need at all to clear caches this time or anything else!

Now it would seem like a simple thing imo for the geniuses at google to include a button on that page that said 'have another gmail account'?! Because however many reasons there may be for that 'lock out', the easiest one is always best to try first.

So a quick google search showed me to change the default gmail address in my accounts:

  1. Log out of all your gmail accounts.
  2. Sign back starting with the 'default' address of choice, in this case whatever gmail address you used for your Google Analytics.

Your 'default' gmail address may not even be the one you use the most anymore, so if you forget then just try to remember which one was opening up first when you logged in fresh to gmail and had no probs signing into your Analytics account and go back to that, or try different ones there by process of elimination. In my case I knew a different gmail address was opening up for me first since yesterday. However if I'd somehow forgotten about deleting an account or the new default I'd have gone down the rabbit hole trying to solve it, easily done!



And if you still need to Flush DNS or Clear Cache [which is the first troubleshooting step SiteSupport tends to give us, but some of their videos on this are outdated an unclear] then here's an easy way to do both of those things

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/how-to-flush-dns-in...

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Thank you, Mary, for sharing, and congrats on solving the issue!
Here's to unlimited success! :)

Randi

Nice job!!!

Tried and true

Elaine

Good you have discovered the solutions.

Thanks Jimmy, I nearly didn't share it but am so glad I did as immediately someone commented they were at breaking point working on the same issue. At least we can all hop in and help each other when we are aware, even if we need to find other solutions. :)

Right.

Another nice, informative post. Thanks, LMM!
Carol

LOL! not to be confused with MLM! :D

Good point!

Thanks for sharing Mary.

Thank you for sharing this, Mary:)

Thanks for sharing, Mary.

good info
Jerry

Great info. I'll save it to a file, and then check it out more in depth when I have time to do so.

Make it a great day!

Hey Alan, you are so right - we've got to make it a great day :)

And what a great suggestion!

I will be checking this out closely! I have spent hours and days on this. I am to the point of tears. Beyond frustrated and ready to quit everything over this. Thank you and wish me luck and success!

wow, keep me up to date on this, I'll help you out best I can and others will jump in too. Also feel free to PM me.

These sort of things are as stressful as it gets!

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