Cancelling Adsense?

[deronsizemore]

Well I've been going back and forth with Google now for a few days about changing my adsense email from a yahoo email account to my new gmail account and they are just getting on my nerves. They are saying that at the current time they don't have the ability to change an adsense email from a yahoo, hotmail, etc...to a gmail account. Does this seem like total BS to anyone else here?

So since they refuse to allow me to change it or change it for me, I'm wondering about cancelling my adsense account and then just resigning back up? Is there a waiting period to do this or something I should know before I try it...or should it be smooth sailing?

[Johnny Gulag]

Hello

I am guessing you have already seen this section?




How do I change my email address / login?

Right now, it isn't possible for AdSense publishers to update their email address directly from within their account. If you require an update of the email address associated with your AdSense account, please follow the instructions below to help us assist you.

1. Draft a new email. If possible, please use the email address currently associated with your AdSense account
2. Write 'Login change request' as the subject of your message
3. Please include all of the following in the body of your message:
* The email address currently associated with your account
* The email address you'd like to use as your new account email address
* The date of the first day your account registered AdSense impressions
* The number of page impressions registered on your first day of impressions

4. Send this email to adsense-support@google.com

You can find some of the information required in Step 3 by taking these steps:

1. Log into your AdSense account at www.google.com/adsense
2. Select the Reports tab
3. Visit the Advanced Reports page
4. Select All time from the date range drop-down menu
5. Select the Aggregate data radio button
6. Click Display report

If you currently do not have access to the email address associated with your account, we may require more information to complete this request.


I am assuming this is just precautionary since this account is tied in with money and your federal income tax payer number (social security). They want to make sure that this info does not leak to the wrong people on their watch.

Hope you can get this sorted. I am not sure on the canceling the account, they may not have that option as I have thought about doing it myself when checking the number of clicks I have and it is 0, hahahaha. I was unable to locate this option.

Actually that may have been Yahoo ads. Either way I was told to just remove any ad code from my pages and stop visiting the Control Panel.

[Sagewing]

This kind of thing is common for large systems. Seemingly simple things like changing an e-mail address can be a nightmare when that address is used as the identifier for the account, etc. It's the same kind of thing as when the phone company makes you repeat your verification information over and over again as you get transferred around - classic shortcoming of large systems.

I would just try and be patient. With Google's reputation for being fickle, banning people, and being otherwise difficult I would avoid any uneccesary account changes. Eventually they will probably allow account changes but until then, pick your battles.

[deronsizemore]

Hello

I am guessing you have already seen this section?




Yeah I did see that Ben. I did exactly what it says to do and get an email reply back saying something to the affect of "Ohh, no problem...just go into your google account and click "account" and change your email". So I try that (for like the 30th time thinking they have updated the system) and it still tells me that a gmail account cannot be set at the primary. So I email them back with the error message that I was receiving and then they tell me that it's not possible. Just seems weird to me as they tell me to do it through google accounts, but I can't, then they have a specific page for changing your adsense email to something else if you can't get it to work in google accounts and I do that and then they still tell me I'm SOL for wanting to switch to a google mail account.

I guess I understand, like Sagewing said...but still pisses me off. lol.

I guess I'll have to suck it up and stay with my Yahoo account right now. I don't want to have a gmail account set up for most of my stuff, but then have adsense/adwords, etc..coming to yahoo. I don't like receiving things at more than one location. :-). I do like Yahoo's beta mail better than gmail, but I find it kinda slow sometimes.

[Johnny Gulag]

I think you might have already had a thread on this but, can you forward your Yahoo accounts emails to the gmail account and then get the emails there instead.

[KLB]

This kind of thing is common for large systems. Seemingly simple things like changing an e-mail address can be a nightmare when that address is used as the identifier for the account, etc. It's the same kind of thing as when the phone company makes you repeat your verification information over and over again as you get transferred around - classic shortcoming of large systems.

It would seem that people would learn in CS101 not to use user changeable fields for unique IDs, but to instead rely on hidden autonumbered fields for unique IDs. At the very least one would think it was common sense. Unfortunatly I find commercial and custom database applications that rely on something like a user name for the unique id to tie tables together. This problem really drives me nuts when I start to overhaul some small company's custom brewed database applications. The first thing I always do in these situations is rebuild all table relationships using a unique numbering system users never see and never get to screw with.

[Sagewing]

It's hard to imagine that they don't know that lesson over at google. They have a history of good design. I work with large systems all the time (government, etc.) and even the best designed systems will usually have some unintended restriction due to an unexpected requirement or anomaly.

My guess is that the e-mail field is somehow related to an integration with an outside system, and that makes it hard to freely change. I expect that they'd fix the problem eventually, but with google launching new things every other day, the aren't maintaining their ordinary quality level.

[deronsizemore]

It's hard to imagine that they don't know that lesson over at google. They have a history of good design. I work with large systems all the time (government, etc.) and even the best designed systems will usually have some unintended restriction due to an unexpected requirement or anomaly.

My guess is that the e-mail field is somehow related to an integration with an outside system, and that makes it hard to freely change. I expect that they'd fix the problem eventually, but with google launching new things every other day, the aren't maintaining their ordinary quality level.

I know nothing about these systems and design you guys are talking about, but maybe you can answer the question of why it's no problem at all to change the email to anything but a gmail account? I can change my current email to another yahoo, hotmail, aol, or any other mail...just not gmail. That's what isn't making sense to me.

I've been speaking to one of their account reps through email and he informed that I could cancel and then reapply without any problems and if I did have a problem all I needed to do was contact him and he'd fix it. So this is probably what I'll do.

[KLB]

Personally I don't like trusting any third-party email service for important/sensitive stuff like this. For that matter I don't like using third-party domains for my email address. All registrations, etc. I use refer back to my own domain names, which I have full control over. To me, using Yahoo or GMail for AdSense, etc. is asking for problems.

[deronsizemore]

Well, that's a good point also. I guess I should think about that.

[KLB]

Even though I use my own domains, through my hosting provider I still have the ability to use webmail if I want to. I also have the ability to configure spam filters so really I'm not losing any benefits or advantages that those free web based email accounts provide.

[deronsizemore]

Even though I use my own domains, through my hosting provider I still have the ability to use webmail if I want to. I also have the ability to configure spam filters so really I'm not losing any benefits or advantages that those free web based email accounts provide.



Yeah, the only problem I would run into with that is that here at work out Firewall blocks me from accessing my site's cpanel therefore wouldn't be able to access webmail. Which isn't a huge deal, because I can just check it at home, but I still like to do a little work on my sites, check email for them or whatever on break or lunch. So that's one downfall, but not huge. Although, like another thread I posted, I could simply forward all email going to my domains to say a gmail account, but if I did reply to an email, I don't have full ability to reply to the email as if it were being sent from the domain...it still has a little message saying it was sent from "name@gmail.com" which I don't like.

[KelliShaver]

If it's only blocking the port cPanel is on and not the site itself, you could always install something like roundCube and use it for webmail.

[deronsizemore]

Never heard of roundcube. I'll check it out. Thanks Kelli

[deronsizemore]

RoundCube looks very nice actually. I'm a little confused on how I would use it? Is it something that I would install on my server?

EDIT: Nevermind...I read the FAQ

[Blue Cat Buxton]

alternatively you could look at something like mail2web.com ? although it might also be blocked by the firewall at your work

[AmbulanceBlues]

I work for a huge corporation with very restrictive security policies (for good reason). They block all webmail services I've ever tried. I just logged in to the demo version of roundcube on their site, and it worked fine, no hint of the internet filter butting in.

Hopefully that bodes well for your purposes. I know it interested the heck out of me.

EDIT: No dice on mail2web. Internet filter wouldn't even let me see the homepage.

Also, I've been looking into learning PHP/MySQL. The reviews I've read all speak of infinite security vulnerabilities with such a combination. Would those who actually use PHP/MySQL be confident in the security of a mail client that uses it? Roundcube does. Especially if your business is on the line?