How to set up an Google Account using your current email address to be granted access to Google Analytics.

1. How to Add a User
Google Analytics
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2. Table of Contents
1. How to Create a Google Account 3-6
2. Access Your Google Analytics 7-8
3. Add a User to a Google Analytics Profile 9-11

3. 1. How to Create
a Google Account
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4. To access Google Analytics you must first have a Google account. Note: This does not mean you are
required to have a Gmail account, just a login and password registered with Google.
To register, simply visit www.google.com/analytics and click on the Create an Account button.
How to Create a Google Account
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5. If you DO have Google email, enter it
here on the log in screen. If not, click
the Create an Account button.
Fill out all the necessary information
regarding your Google Account. Click
Next Step when you are finished.
How to Create a Google Account
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6. How to Create a Google Account
After creating your Google Account you will receive a Google Email Verification sent to the email
you registered with. This email will provide you with a Verification Link you will need to click to
fully complete your Google Account signup.
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7. 2. Access Your
Google Analytics
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8. To access your Google Analytics, return to www.google.com/analytics. If you are still signed in, you
will click Access Google Analytics. (If you are not signed in, Sign In and then proceed.)
Access Your Google Analytics
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9. 3. Add a User to a Google
Analytics Profile
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10. Add a User to a Google Analytics Profile
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1. Once you are in your Google
Analytics, to add a user to a
Google Analytics Profile go to the
Admin Section.
2. In your Admin Section, under
ACCOUNT select A. Select User
Management.

11. Add a User to a Google Analytics Profile
3. Under Add permissions for: enter
the user’s (that you’re adding)
registered Gmail account address.
4. Select the level of accessability
the user will have access to by
selecting from the drop down
menu next to the email box.
Manage Users: Manage account users.
Edit: Perform administrative and report-related
functions, and see report data; Collaborate.
Collaborate: Create personal assets, and share
them; collaborate on shared assets, for example,
edit a dashboard or annotation; Read & Analyze.
Read & Analyze: See report and configuration
data; manipulate data within reports; create
personal assets, share them, see shared assets;
cannot collaborate on shared assets.
5. Be sure to check the Notify this
user by email box to let your new
user know they’ve been added.
6. When you are finished, click Add
to add your new user!
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