Linking an adwordsa account with a different analytics account.

[cmendla]

Hello all

One of my clients has analytics installed on his site under his google account. He recently hired an adwords consultant. The consultant wants me to put his analytics tracking code on the site. I presume that is so he can link the adwords and analytics.

Questions.

1. Can we just add him as an admin user to the existing analytics tracking that is already on the site? I'm not sure if adwords will allow that or not.

2. Is there any harm in running two google analytics trackers on the same site? ie we would add his tracking code to the pages but not replace it

(I realize the second question belongs more in the analytics forum but the main part of the question is adwords specific)

Thanks

chris

[RhinoFish]

1. yes.
2. yes.

[MadeWillis]

The consultant likely has a MCC account and he shouldn't really need his analytics code on the site to see the stats. Just give him access.

Adding more tracking codes and other scripts to your site can affect performance. I would not have more than one analytics account running on a single site.

[suzukik]

About Q2.

You can put two GA codes at the same time by using "second tracker":

<script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
try {
firstTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-11111");
firstTracker._trackPageview();
var secondTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-22222");
secondTracker._trackPageview();
} catch(err) {}</script>

UA-11111 is one of your IDs in your profiles and UA-22222 is the other of those.
This is working well for me.