I've always had a Google Account using my email address from my own
site. I recently created a GMail account for an unrelated use and
actually never used it for what I had intended and don't use it now
but still, my Google Account somehow became associated with it and the
GMail account effectively took over and I can't even direct thread
update notices to where they were going before, they go to the GMail
account and trying to change things in "Groups - Manage subscriptions
" seems to have disabled my ability to select anything except the
GMail account.
I know that the Google Account service is not actually an AdSense
service but instead, AdSense uses the Google Account service but
still, it is frustrating when the system decides what I will use and I
lose the choice to change.
I'd delete my GMail account but I am afraid of where I would end up if
I did that, I'm afraid I'd end up getting locked out even though the
address I initially created a Google Account with still works.
I had also thought of requesting the deletion of my AdSense account so
that I could then safely delete the GMail account and start fresh with
the address I want for my Google Account but that seems risky as well.
I really like all the Google products and services I have used so far
but the one thing tying them all together doesn't seem as "hardened"
as it should be for the reliance placed on it.
By the way, I haven't noticed as much spam and off topic posts in the
Blogspot notice as I am seeing in the one you linked to. Is it just
that the comments haven't been cleaned out yet?
I've created a gmail account and attached that to my adsense account.
But just wondering, will I still get adsense related mail to the
original account? Since I check my real email every day a few times,
and this gmail account's most likely only every 6 months
> I've created a gmail account and attached that to my adsense account.
> But just wondering, will I still get adsense related mail to the
> original account? Since I check my real email every day a few times,
> and this gmail account's most likely only every 6 months
You have the same situation I have, started with a non-Gmail address
account and created a Gmail account. Now everything goes to the Gmail
account no matter what I try to do.
Maybe you will be lucky and that won't happen but my guess is you will
experience the same thing I did.
I'm in a nasty situation.
I wanted to use a google account from the beginning but it was never
possible to change it to one later on. It's also not allowed to open a
new account. Now I've transferred it to a google account, but it was
not allowed to transfer it to my normal google account because there
was an ADWORDS account connected to that already. Now I have 2 google
accounts and there's no way to make it 1 again. It's a problem because
now I cannot configure Adsense on my blogger blogs. Oh yeah I get ads
of course but the income goes into a black google hole somewhere. I'd
love to contact support and merge the accounts somehow, but supoprt
seems to be non existent here. Never hear back from emails and get
directed to a user support group. Pathetic.
Acehighness - I share your frustration, believe me I do.
I posted what I did above to try to warn people of problems that could
occur when using a Google Account based on a non-Gmail account and
then creating a Gmail account later.
But, the problem is not actually an AdSense problem other than
AdSense, like all the other Google products and services have to rely
on one other Google service, "Google Accounts".
The problem for me though is that I can't find a Help forum for Google
Accounts like there is this for AdSense and I can't find anything that
covers the situation I am seeing in their Help Center.
One thing I do know though, although I am hoping the AdSense crew can
convey our frustrations with our Google Accounts service to the people
at Google Accounts, we pretty much have to try to work through the
Google Accounts system in order to get anything done.
I guess I'm fudged ... extremely frustrating.
I think I have only 1 choice. Try and move all the services myself to
the other account ... o wait a minute that's not possible.
Ok what I'll try is register a completely new google account, request
adsense for it. then update my 15+ websites with about 4 different ad
units each to use the new adsense account. I'll have to make sure it
contains $100 before cutting of the supply of clicks to the account of
course. Man this really blows. I'm gonna try this but I'm almost sure
to get stuck somewhere between adsense, adwords and my blogger blogs.
Not to mention my other problems I have with adsense. ... I'll post
those in an appropriate thread, although it would puzzle me if users
knew the answer.
> Acehighness - I share your frustration, believe me I do.
> I posted what I did above to try to warn people of problems that could
> occur when using a Google Account based on a non-Gmail account and
> then creating a Gmail account later.
> But, the problem is not actually an AdSense problem other than
> AdSense, like all the other Google products and services have to rely
> on one other Google service, "Google Accounts".
> The problem for me though is that I can't find a Help forum for Google
> Accounts like there is this for AdSense and I can't find anything that
> covers the situation I am seeing in their Help Center.
> One thing I do know though, although I am hoping the AdSense crew can
> convey our frustrations with our Google Accounts service to the people
> at Google Accounts, we pretty much have to try to work through the
> Google Accounts system in order to get anything done.
> Ok what I'll try is register a completely new google account, request
> adsense for it.
That won't work. A person is only allowed one Individual Account if
and one is found to have more than one, likely both will become
disabled.
You could however request to have the one you have now canceled but
make sure the request to cancel it is preceded by approval to cancel
and create a new account or you could end up running into the "one
individual account" situation again having had one already.
I'm tempted to just delete my Gmail account but I'm afraid I'd lose
access altogether.
Why do I get the feeling this announcement has not been met with as
much joy and happiness as previous announcements? :-()
"I've created a gmail account and attached that to my adsense account.
But just wondering, will I still get adsense related mail to the
original account? Since I check my real email every day a few times,
and this gmail account's most likely only every 6 months."
"You have the same situation I have, started with a non-Gmail address
account and created a Gmail account. Now everything goes to the Gmail
account no matter what I try to do."
"I'm tempted to just delete my Gmail account but I'm afraid I'd lose
access altogether."
You don't need to delete the gmail account. Just forward your gmail to
the email account that you actually use. I've been doing this for over
2 years now. I hardly check my gmail account at all, having gotten
used to my other email account. I only use it when I need to reply
using an @gmail address. Heck, I even found out I got accepted into
Adsense while checking my non-gmail account. Of course, within
seconds, I was logging into my gmail account to confirm what was
forwarded. True enough, there it was. : )
> > Ok what I'll try is register a completely new google account, request
> > adsense for it.
> That won't work. A person is only allowed one Individual Account if
> and one is found to have more than one, likely both will become
> disabled.
> You could however request to have the one you have now canceled but
> make sure the request to cancel it is preceded by approval to cancel
> and create a new account or you could end up running into the "one
> individual account" situation again having had one already.
> I'm tempted to just delete my Gmail account but I'm afraid I'd lose
> access altogether.
> Why do I get the feeling this announcement has not been met with as
> much joy and happiness as previous announcements? :-()
> "I've created a gmail account and attached that to my adsense account.
> But just wondering, will I still get adsense related mail to the
> original account? Since I check my real email every day a few times,
> and this gmail account's most likely only every 6 months."
> "You have the same situation I have, started with a non-Gmail address
> account and created a Gmail account. Now everything goes to the Gmail
> account no matter what I try to do."
> "I'm tempted to just delete my Gmail account but I'm afraid I'd lose
> access altogether."
> You don't need to delete the gmail account. Just forward your gmail to
> the email account that you actually use. I've been doing this for over
> 2 years now. I hardly check my gmail account at all, having gotten
> used to my other email account. I only use it when I need to reply
> using an @gmail address. Heck, I even found out I got accepted into
> Adsense while checking my non-gmail account. Of course, within
> seconds, I was logging into my gmail account to confirm what was
> forwarded. True enough, there it was. : )
> On May 31, 7:48 pm, Cass-hacks wrote:
> > > Ok what I'll try is register a completely new google account, request
> > > adsense for it.
> > That won't work. A person is only allowed one Individual Account if
> > and one is found to have more than one, likely both will become
> > disabled.
> > You could however request to have the one you have now canceled but
> > make sure the request to cancel it is preceded by approval to cancel
> > and create a new account or you could end up running into the "one
> > individual account" situation again having had one already.
> > I'm tempted to just delete my Gmail account but I'm afraid I'd lose
> > access altogether.
> > Why do I get the feeling this announcement has not been met with as
> > much joy and happiness as previous announcements? :-()
If you're asking about forwarding email from your gmail address to
another email address: Log in to gmail >> Click settings (upper right
hand corner) >> Click Forwarding and POP/IMAP >> Activate Forward a
copy of incoming mail to [your other email address] and choose [keep
Gmail's copy in the inbox] just in case you need to reply to a sender
using your gmail address.
> one question, i do use gmail account but i would like to change the
> email add. how do i do it ?
> On Jun 4, 2:04 pm, ski44 wrote:
> > "I've created a gmail account and attached that to my adsense account.
> > But just wondering, will I still get adsense related mail to the
> > original account? Since I check my real email every day a few times,
> > and this gmail account's most likely only every 6 months."
> > "You have the same situation I have, started with a non-Gmail address
> > account and created a Gmail account. Now everything goes to the Gmail
> > account no matter what I try to do."
> > "I'm tempted to just delete my Gmail account but I'm afraid I'd lose
> > access altogether."
> > You don't need to delete the gmail account. Just forward your gmail to
> > the email account that you actually use. I've been doing this for over
> > 2 years now. I hardly check my gmail account at all, having gotten
> > used to my other email account. I only use it when I need to reply
> > using an @gmail address. Heck, I even found out I got accepted into
> > Adsense while checking my non-gmail account. Of course, within
> > seconds, I was logging into my gmail account to confirm what was
> > forwarded. True enough, there it was. : )
> > On May 31, 7:48 pm, Cass-hacks wrote:
> > > > Ok what I'll try is register a completely new google account, request
> > > > adsense for it.
> > > That won't work. A person is only allowed one Individual Account if
> > > and one is found to have more than one, likely both will become
> > > disabled.
> > > You could however request to have the one you have now canceled but
> > > make sure the request to cancel it is preceded by approval to cancel
> > > and create a new account or you could end up running into the "one
> > > individual account" situation again having had one already.
> > > I'm tempted to just delete my Gmail account but I'm afraid I'd lose
> > > access altogether.
> > > Why do I get the feeling this announcement has not been met with as
> > > much joy and happiness as previous announcements? :-()- Hide quoted text -
> If you're asking about forwarding email from your gmail address to
> another email address: Log in to gmail >> Click settings (upper right
> hand corner) >> Click Forwarding and POP/IMAP >> Activate Forward a
> copy of incoming mail to [your other email address] and choose [keep
> Gmail's copy in the inbox] just in case you need to reply to a sender
> using your gmail address.
> On Jun 6, 10:44 pm, mist wrote:
> > one question, i do use gmail account but i would like to change the
> > email add. how do i do it ?
> > On Jun 4, 2:04 pm, ski44 wrote:
> > > "I've created a gmail account and attached that to my adsense account.
> > > But just wondering, will I still get adsense related mail to the
> > > original account? Since I check my real email every day a few times,
> > > and this gmail account's most likely only every 6 months."
> > > "You have the same situation I have, started with a non-Gmail address
> > > account and created a Gmail account. Now everything goes to the Gmail
> > > account no matter what I try to do."
> > > "I'm tempted to just delete my Gmail account but I'm afraid I'd lose
> > > access altogether."
> > > You don't need to delete the gmail account. Just forward your gmail to
> > > the email account that you actually use. I've been doing this for over
> > > 2 years now. I hardly check my gmail account at all, having gotten
> > > used to my other email account. I only use it when I need to reply
> > > using an @gmail address. Heck, I even found out I got accepted into
> > > Adsense while checking my non-gmail account. Of course, within
> > > seconds, I was logging into my gmail account to confirm what was
> > > forwarded. True enough, there it was. : )
> > > On May 31, 7:48 pm, Cass-hacks wrote:
> > > > > Ok what I'll try is register a completely new google account, request
> > > > > adsense for it.
> > > > That won't work. A person is only allowed one Individual Account if
> > > > and one is found to have more than one, likely both will become
> > > > disabled.
> > > > You could however request to have the one you have now canceled but
> > > > make sure the request to cancel it is preceded by approval to cancel
> > > > and create a new account or you could end up running into the "one
> > > > individual account" situation again having had one already.
> > > > I'm tempted to just delete my Gmail account but I'm afraid I'd lose
> > > > access altogether.
> > > > Why do I get the feeling this announcement has not been met with as
> > > > much joy and happiness as previous announcements? :-()- Hide quoted text -
I have tried repeatedly to use my Google, or Gmail Account, to create
an AdSense Account. It will not work. I keep getting an error message
that tells me "account already in use."
Since I'm brand new to this I know I never, ever signed up for AdSense
before. And I just recently created my first blog.
I was only able to create an AdSense account with my Yahoo Account. It
is the only way I could get in.
I offered a simple 'band aid' fix that involved zero risk and no
deletion of accounts. Nothing more. It was not meant to denigrate your
crusade to try to get a broken system fixed. I did read the full
content of your posts and had I have something to say about the
'broken system', then I would have quoted and commented on that too.
As such, my post was only directed at making Gmail bearable for those
affected by the changes. I do recognize there is a problem and I do
support your attempts to get it fixed.
We'd like to clarify a few things about migrating your AdSense account
login.
When you migrate your login to a Google account, you will use this
email address to log in to your AdSense account, and we will send any
AdSense-related emails to this address.
If you have another Google account that is not a login for your
AdSense account, you can delete it without disabling your access to
your AdSense account. It will, however, disable your access to any
services associated with that login. (Also, please note that if you
disable the Google Account associated with your AdSense account, your
AdSense account will remain approved but will be unable to access it).
Updating your login to a Google account does not mean that you need to
update it a Gmail address.
If - for any reason - you need to close an AdSense account and open
another, you can submit your request via our Contact Us form.
If you need to update your publisher ID on your Layouts-enabled
Blogger blog, follow these steps:
1. Log into your Blogger account at http://www.blogger.com .
2. Go to your blog's Layout template page.
3. Click on the AdSense module.
4. Click on the 'Switch to a different publisher ID' link at the
bottom.
5. Enter your AdSense login.
Finally, thanks for your feedback on Google Accounts, and your
migration experience. If you have questions or feedback on Google
Accounts, please see Google Accounts Help:
http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/request.py?contact_type=co... . If you have any further questions about migrating your AdSense
login, please don't hesitate to let us know.
> I offered a simple 'band aid' fix that involved zero risk and no
> deletion of accounts. Nothing more. It was not meant to denigrate your
> crusade to try to get a broken system fixed. I did read the full
> content of your posts and had I have something to say about the
> 'broken system', then I would have quoted and commented on that too.
> As such, my post was only directed at making Gmail bearable for those
> affected by the changes. I do recognize there is a problem and I do
> support your attempts to get it fixed.
> Ski
> On Jun 8, 11:00 pm, Cass-hacks wrote:
> > > You don't need to delete the gmail account. Just forward your gmail to
> > > the email account that you actually use.
> > So I have to use a band-aid to fix a system that doesn't allow me to
> > choose?
> > I didn't ask for my Gmail account to take over my Google Account.
> > There was no warning it would happen.
> > There was no verification that I wanted it to happen.
> > There is no way to change where subscription updates go.
> > There are a lot of "you can just do" but that doesn't mean the system
> > isn't broke.
Think many in the Group, I too am unable to merge my AdSense account
with my Google account. It keep complaining that my Google Account
already have an AdSense account associated with it.
Who should I direct my request to, to delete whatever AdSense account
associated with my Google Account, so that I can merge my actual
AdSense account to my Google account?
> We'd like to clarify a few things about migrating yourAdSenseaccount
> login.
> When you migrate your login to aGoogleaccount, you will use this
> email address to log in to yourAdSenseaccount, and we will send anyAdSense-related emails to this address.
> If you have anotherGoogleaccount that is not a login for yourAdSenseaccount, you can delete it without disabling your access to
> yourAdSenseaccount. It will, however, disable your access to any
> services associated with that login. (Also, please note that if you
> disable theGoogleAccount associated with yourAdSenseaccount, yourAdSenseaccount will remain approved but will be unable to access it).
> Updating your login to aGoogleaccount does not mean that you need to
> update it a Gmail address.
> If - for any reason - you need to close anAdSenseaccount and open
> another, you can submit your request via our Contact Us form.
> If you need to update your publisher ID on your Layouts-enabled
> Blogger blog, follow these steps:
> 1. Log into your Blogger account athttp://www.blogger.com.
> 2. Go to your blog's Layout template page.
> 3. Click on theAdSensemodule.
> 4. Click on the 'Switch to a different publisher ID' link at the
> bottom.
> 5. Enter yourAdSenselogin.
> Finally, thanks for your feedback onGoogleAccounts, and your
> migration experience. If you have questions or feedback onGoogle
> Accounts, please seeGoogleAccounts Help:http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/request.py?contact_type=co...
> . If you have any further questions about migrating yourAdSense
> login, please don't hesitate to let us know.
> Ashley
> On Jun 11, 4:51 am, ski44 wrote:
> > Cass,
> > I offered a simple 'band aid' fix that involved zero risk and no
> > deletion of accounts. Nothing more. It was not meant to denigrate your
> > crusade to try to get a broken system fixed. I did read the full
> > content of your posts and had I have something to say about the
> > 'broken system', then I would have quoted and commented on that too.
> > As such, my post was only directed at making Gmail bearable for those
> > affected by the changes. I do recognize there is a problem and I do
> > support your attempts to get it fixed.
> > Ski
> > On Jun 8, 11:00 pm, Cass-hacks wrote:
> > > > You don't need to delete the gmail account. Just forward your gmail to
> > > > the email account that you actually use.
> > > So I have to use a band-aid to fix a system that doesn't allow me to
> > > choose?
> > > I didn't ask for my Gmail account to take over myGoogleAccount.
> > > There was no warning it would happen.
> > > There was no verification that I wanted it to happen.
> > > There is no way to change where subscription updates go.
> > > There are a lot of "you can just do" but that doesn't mean the system
> > > isn't broke.
> I've created a gmail account and attached that to my adsense account.
> But just wondering, will I still get adsense related mail to the
> original account? Since I check my real email every day a few times,
> and this gmail account's most likely only every 6 months
> On May 26, 3:33 pm, AdSensePro Ashley wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > As mentioned in our recent blogpost, all publishers will soon be
> > required to update their AdSense account login to a Google Account.
Ashley,
I'm in the same boat as Vinko - i would like to know who to contact to
delete the AdSense account from the existing Google account. i do not
need, nor want, to create another Google account.
> We'd like to clarify a few things about migrating your AdSense account
> login.
> When you migrate your login to a Google account, you will use this
> email address to log in to your AdSense account, and we will send any
> AdSense-related emails to this address.
> If you have another Google account that is not a login for your
> AdSense account, you can delete it without disabling your access to
> your AdSense account. It will, however, disable your access to any
> services associated with that login. (Also, please note that if you
> disable the Google Account associated with your AdSense account, your
> AdSense account will remain approved but will be unable to access it).
> Updating your login to a Google account does not mean that you need to
> update it a Gmail address.
> If - for any reason - you need to close an AdSense account and open
> another, you can submit your request via our Contact Us form.
> If you need to update your publisher ID on your Layouts-enabled
> Blogger blog, follow these steps:
> 1. Log into your Blogger account athttp://www.blogger.com.
> 2. Go to your blog's Layout template page.
> 3. Click on the AdSense module.
> 4. Click on the 'Switch to a different publisher ID' link at the
> bottom.
> 5. Enter your AdSense login.
> Finally, thanks for your feedback on Google Accounts, and your
> migration experience. If you have questions or feedback on Google
> Accounts, please see Google Accounts Help:http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/request.py?contact_type=co...
> . If you have any further questions about migrating your AdSense
> login, please don't hesitate to let us know.
> Ashley
> On Jun 11, 4:51 am, ski44 wrote:
> > Cass,
> > I offered a simple 'band aid' fix that involved zero risk and no
> > deletion of accounts. Nothing more. It was not meant to denigrate your
> > crusade to try to get a broken system fixed. I did read the full
> > content of your posts and had I have something to say about the
> > 'broken system', then I would have quoted and commented on that too.
> > As such, my post was only directed at making Gmail bearable for those
> > affected by the changes. I do recognize there is a problem and I do
> > support your attempts to get it fixed.
> > Ski
> > On Jun 8, 11:00 pm, Cass-hacks wrote:
> > > > You don't need to delete the gmail account. Just forward your gmail to
> > > > the email account that you actually use.
> > > So I have to use a band-aid to fix a system that doesn't allow me to
> > > choose?
> > > I didn't ask for my Gmail account to take over my Google Account.
> > > There was no warning it would happen.
> > > There was no verification that I wanted it to happen.
> > > There is no way to change where subscription updates go.
> > > There are a lot of "you can just do" but that doesn't mean the system
> > > isn't broke.
I want to keep logging in with the same email I always use (not a
google mail account). I have tried repeatedly to make that happen,
even following the steps in the best practices FAQ but it won't accept
my email address - saying "
A user with the email you specified already exists. Already have a
google account? Try logging in."
I AM ALREADY LOGGED IN! THE USER IS ME AND I WANT TO USE THE SAME
EMAIL!
Please help me out with this. It is completely annoying IMO. A one
button click that says: "I want to use the same email I've always
used." Would be the best thing. Not 3 screens of clicking that doesn't
get accepted for some reason.
Or give me a way to disable the annoying nag screen I have to click
through in order to log into my adsense.
My experience is just the other way around from most, but equally
frustrating, time consuming and most of all confusing.
My login has always been googlemail.
I can't access my groups via the previously convenient my account page
anymore. It's been weeks!
A few weeks ago, I was told that my email had changed (it didn't!) and
that i could not access groups. I thought it was a bug that would be
fixed soon. Tried to do what the note in red told me. Was then told, I
could not associate gmail account to google account. Come again? Yet
my googlemail is still listed as primary mail. Oddly enough, it won't
let me change that, either.
This headache has bugged the hell out of me each time I tried to get
to my groups and couldn't. Sorry, but I get so annoyed by the
runaround the system sends me in - which doesn't make an iota of sense
whatsoever, there's no logic to it that this user could see - that my
blood pressure increases.
How did I get here today? By accident in a roundabout way. Not via my
account page, that's for sure. Once again I get the same message
telling me what I should do etc. then I managed via my profile (!) to
access an old post and clicked my way through. By miracle, later not
only 1 of the groups appeared, but now I see all of them listed.
Like so many other people on this threat are saying, I too can't merge
my adsense account to the google login, as I previously tried to set
up an adsense account under my google account. That was then rejected,
as I already had an account under different email. As there is no
other way to update your email either, I have already lost the access
to that email due to other issues, so I am stuck with an old email
address I don't want to use and that doesn't work... Google help
section is useless, and there is no personal help offered to solve
these sort of situations. I'm not a happy camper.
I followed a link in a recent email directing me to update my AdSense
account login to my Google login. When I get to the page that the link
references, the page begins to load but eventually fails and I am sent
to an error page which states:
Error
We apologize for the inconvenience, but we are unable to process your
request at this time. Our engineers have been notified of this problem
and will work to resolve it.
This happens in any browser I try (IE 7, FF 2), and Java is enabled. I
am running Vista for an OS.
I'd like to comply with this, but have a barrier which prevents me
from doing so.
- I created an Adsense acct years ago, with the intent of putting ads
on my online pharmacy sites.
- Google policy changed after that- no adsense ads on pharmacy sites.
My acct was well.. disabled.
- Now years later, I would like to reactivate my account for non-
pharmacy use.
How can I get that done?? The acct is linked to my google acct.
