Should One Webmaster Tools Account Manage Many Sites?

[onedodd]

As a web designer I was wondering the best way to submit Google sitemaps, verify them, and manage them.
Should I open a webmaster account for every site I build OR is it possible to just open one account and manage 40 or 50 sites from that one account?

I do the SEO and manage the sites I do for usually a minimum of 6 months and as long as a year for some so I definitely need to set up sitemaps for each site and monitor / manage them.

I am mostly building sites for < clients who > are not into computers at all so they could care less about having the account in their own name to manage.

Up to now I have been opening an account for each site. But it is a real pain when there are lots of sites involved.

I have my own site account for my own websites and I wouldn't dare add others sites to that. No reason in mind, I just don't think that is a smart move.

Anybody run many or multiple sites from one webmaster account?

Thanks, Joe

[edited by: tedster at 4:55 am (utc) on Mar. 5, 2008]

[fishfinger]

Up to now I have always used separate accounts for each client, but it's getting to be a real pain. I'm thinking of starting a new account to amalgamate them all.

Most clients aren't bothered about the data so I don't need to worry about confidentiality.

My view is that as long as you are not doing anything like

- duplicate sites in the same niche, or
- dodgy links via a network of sites

then don't worry about Google knowing that you run a number of sites and what these are. I don't really mind Google knowing what I'm doing because I don't think I'm crossing the line.

[phranque]

sure no problem - dozens...

[netmeg]

I have about 150 sites in mine now.

The biggest problem is that I can't set the page site myself, so I have to do a lot of jumping back and forth between pages, (and everytime you go back, you start over at the first page again!) which is a real pain and really slows me down, and I've made numerous suggestions that Google let ME set the page to display all or whatever, but do they listen? no....