Comments on: Google Identity Required for Adsense and Adwords Login

By: Smartcard Mike

Smartcard Mike — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:49:50 +0000

Does anyone know where I can find more information about this?

By: G Robets

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By: kiran konathala

kiran konathala — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 05:05:16 +0000

Well,finally Google goes the Microsoft Passport way integrating all of their services including the much hyped AdSense and AdWords.No wonder if your Gmail account is a one stop account for many products in the near future!!

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By: echoterror

echoterror — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:09:56 +0000

Hi, is it true that when transtioning campaigns between accounts in Adwords you lose your quality score and have to pay higher cpcs? is there anyway to avoid this?

By: Chris @ Deliberate Chaos

Chris @ Deliberate Chaos — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:18:21 +0000

I haven’t been asked to change my login at Adsense yet, but I did have to agree to a new terms of service the other day. It must be a phased in switch-over.

I wonder if I’ll get a message to switch sometime in the near future. I read through the TOS, but was looking at interplay between Chitika and Adsense and didn’t think to look about needing to use a Google identity to log in.

By: david s

david s — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:05:38 +0000

I already used my gmail account for adwords and adsense, but with a different password. Google seems to still keep them as different.

Neither adwords or adsense show up on my account services at https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount which is linked to my gmail.

Also I can’t change the adwords/adsense passwords to the gmail password because that one doesn’t have numbers in it.

weird

By: J Wynia

J Wynia — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 17:04:16 +0000

Elisa, I know that Google is moving to a setup at least for Adwords that lets you create a “campaign manager” account that lets you manage more than one sub-account specifically for people who run campaigns for clients. I ran across it while looking for information on their Adwords API. They wanted me to set one of those accounts up. I can’t remember the details right now, but maybe someone else can fill in the gaps.

By: Irishwonder.syndk8.co.uk » Google’s next step to becoming the Big Brother

Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:16:37 +0000

[...] Well, Google is slowly pushing its users to unified accounts for all the services it offers. As Problogger reports, AdSense users are now asked to switch to using Google accounts – not like I would have noticed if not for this post as I use a gmail login anyway. [...]

By: ryan

ryan — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:17:04 +0000

Thanks Stuart that helped!

Jon I already tried to clear my cookies – didn’t help :(

By: » AdSense Switches To Google Accounts InsideGoogle » part of the Blog News Channel

Mon, 07 Nov 2005 05:23:13 +0000

[...] Google has switched over AdSense to the Google Accounts system according to Darren Rowse, making it the latest in a series of Google services to switch to the universal login system. Still, the new system doesn’t solve the biggest problem I had with AdSense, that it didn’t keep me logged in. [...]

By: EngLee

EngLee — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 02:58:10 +0000

It doesn’t ask me to switch to Google login. I’m still using the old way. Is there any problem?

By: stuart

stuart — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 01:37:57 +0000

Dennis, Ryan, same problem here. There is a workaround which works for most of those who are locked out; login via the following url:
https://www.google.com/adsense/login1
that will take you to the old login page which still lets you login. As with Ryan I got an email from Google saying they’re working on it…haven’t heard anything more as yet — I guess some techs just had a pretty non-existant weekend!

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 22:20:50 +0000

Dennis and Ryan…have you tried deleting your cookies? WARNING: you could lose all your saved logins for all sites…but it maybe that you have a cookie confict and that’s why the logins aren’t working for you. Try to deleted just the google cookies, if you’re technically inclined.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 21:39:01 +0000

Thanks for the update, Ryan, I still haven’t heard from Google. Though hearing that they will “try to fix” it doesn’t make me feel so hot at all. I wish there was a way to undo the change to get back to where I was.

By: ryan

ryan — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:49:32 +0000

Dennis, the same happened to me too! I got a reply from Google – saying they will try to fix this asap.

By: Webmaster@mysearchisover.com

Webmaster@mysearchisover.com — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 16:57:25 +0000

It hasn’t asked me to switch yet.

By: Elisa Camahort

Elisa Camahort — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 16:11:13 +0000

For me this is a very bad thing. I have multiple clients for who I run adwords programs. Adwords does not support different billing info per campaign, so I had set up multiple AdWords accounts. (Which was already stupid and annoying enough.)

So, yes, now I’ve had to create a bunch of different “Google” identities that I suppose include Gmail now.

Worst of all, when you log in via one identity, it logs you out of the others, so every time I go back to GMail I have to re-log-in if I was looking at my AdWords campaigns.

Amazon has done a bit of the same thing. I have a personal Amazon account and a professional Amazon identity for my affiliate stuff. Now I have to be logged out of one to get into the other.

I’m glad it’s all so convenient for them, but it’s a royal pain for me and having a definite impact on how efficiently my work goes throughout the day.

By: HELN

HELN — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 15:36:35 +0000

This allows them to compile a very complete “profile” of their users. Hopefully you trust Google with your info. They know can associate my bank account [AdSense], my credit card [Adwords] and all my personal emails and the history of all my Google searches – not to mentiion address, phone numbers. If they start to compile and use that info to target advertising things could get scary. I know MSN has mentioned similar ideas with their upcoming AdCenter.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 15:31:30 +0000

I was asked to do this 2 days ago when I logged into AdWords, and immediately complied with their request. I use AdWords, AdSense, gmail, Froogle Merchant Center, and Google Alerts.

As soon as I did this, I was no longer able to access my AdSense control panel, reporting, or whatever they call it.

When I log in with the new email address (my gmail address), and password, it comes back and refreshes the screen, blanks out the log in information, and no error message.

When I log in with my old email address and password, it gives me an error message.

When I tried to reset the password, it allowed me to do so, and I still cannot log into AdSense, but I have no problems doing so with the other Google functions.

I used the “contact us” on the AdSense page to contact Google two days ago, again yesterday, and still no response.

I posted this on a popular forum and 2 other people have the same problem getting into AdSense. You would think they would at least confirm receipt of the support request, but nothing yet. In the meantime I have no idea what’s happened the last two days, and also have no way of putting up referral links to the AdSense affiliate program.

Very frustrating to say the least.