Opening New Adwords Acct For Business

[arthur spooner]

Not sure if this is exactly the right forum, but seemed pretty close. I have always operated as a sole prop and so I guess I had a personal adsense account. Tied to that same account, I managed my adwords/analytics for all my sites as well as a site for my father.

I recently incorporated and am thinking I should put everything under the corporation name so it's easy at tax time. While I only make about $700/month from adsense, it's not something I want to lose because of some poor planning. Which, I will say is how I got into this mess in the first place.

I think the time has come to basically seperate my sites from my father's sites and have them each under seperate credit card/bank info. Since my dad's site has a long adwords history as well as more imoprtant analytics data, I think it'd be best to leave that tied to the existing email.

Then I was thinking of setting up a new adsense account in my business name. I think it would be a pain to have to change the adsense code and analytics code, but oh well.

-Is this the best route to go or am I missing something?

-Is there a chance that by replacing the adsense code on a few of my sites that Google would view that as an ownership change?

-And is there any disadvantage (or advantage) to starting an adsense account from scratch?

-My personal address and business address are the same (seperate payee and tax id though), I'm assuming that wouldn't get flagged in google's system as 2 accounts?

-And finally, all these sites that have adsense also have analytics on the existing account. Is it as simple as replacing the code? The old analytics wouldn't be tied to the new stuff, but does anyone know if it would get flagged by the system as being in 2 accounts?

[arthur spooner]

I guess there is another option. What I could do is change the payee information of all my adsense accounts to my father's corporation and then have his company just cut me a check for the same amount. The new income would obviously be offset by the expense of cutting the check to me.

And then all new websites that I start, I can just put them on my adsense account.

[bwnbwn]

The 2nd option sounds much easier to me. Even in the accounting it will be tracked so it won't be a tax libality to him.

Being that amount isn't that big a deal and you can always then go into the site and change all the adsense code to your new account at a latter date or in sections.

The adwords will also not be an issue since your moving this to a new account, under a new company and a new cc. This will change when you add the domains to the new account.

Google analytics code will need to hand changed as well as the verification code.

You will be starting over but having them seperated is probably your best option to do now than latter..

[arthur spooner]

Ok, these sites happened to be built with xsitepro and I'm happy to report that I can just change one section of the setup and it will change my publisher id across all my sites. I'll probably just do one site at a time to see if the payouts change and go from there. Good news..