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Dear Sir, is it possible to hide cost data from analytics using adwords. I want to run a campaign for a client and have agreed upon a fixed rate per click for the same. Unfortunately the client has analytics enabled and wants me to link my adwords account to his. I understand that this will enable him to see my actual costs and thereby put me in a situation where i will have to work on a low margin. Your reply in this regard will be of great help. Warm regards

Hi,

It seems to there are 2 Adwords (one belonging to your client and one belonging to yourself) accounts and 1 Google Analytics (GA) account. If this is indeed the case, you cannot link your account to his GA account. You can however have your metrics show up in his account without any cost date. If you are familiar with GA tracking parameters, you could can tag all your URL's with your own unique identifiers. For example:

www.mysite.com?utm_source=myname_Google&utm_medium=ppc&utm_campaign...etc. Please refer to Google's help section if you need more information on GA tagging. http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55578

- Shimal

Answered: Mar 17, 2010 - 2:37 pm EST What do you think?