Increase in QR Code / Face Verification on Google Accounts

[Mattk97]

We have been running into an increased amount of Google accounts with Google's security requiring QR code verification or face verification when logging in. Has anyone else been dealing with this. We are a large agency that historically has set up a Google account for each client so that we can manage Google Analytics, Search Console, GTM, get access to GBP, etc. We have a global recovery email set but with remote employees who are in different areas it has become a pain when some users can access the account and others are hit with the 2fa verification for face verification or QR code. Then sometimes it doesn't let you into the account because of suspicious activity.

Have other agencies ran into this, and/or what alternative options should we consider as far as set up / management goes for handling analytics / GSC / GTM / etc for 1000+ SMB clients?

 

[keyserholiday]

You are doing this wrong. Google forbids sharing logins and passwords. You should have one primary account to control all accounts and add users to those properties. What you are doing can get the Google account backlisted and cause the services associated with that email to be suspended.

 

[Mattk97]

You are doing this wrong. Google forbids sharing logins and passwords. You should have one primary account to control all accounts and add users to those properties. What you are doing can get the Google account backlisted and cause the services associated with that email to be suspended.

I think cap limitations is where we've run into issues in the past or are uncertain if we'd run into issues in the future. One primary account can't have more than 1000 GSC properties, analytics is 100? I think. and then each user may need access to more than 100 accounts. So figuring out the best combination of primary account vs user level access has been tricky.

 

[keyserholiday]

I think cap limitations is where we've run into issues in the past or are uncertain if we'd run into issues in the future. One primary account can't have more than 1000 GSC properties, analytics is 100? I think. and then each user may need access to more than 100 accounts. So figuring out the best combination of primary account vs user level access has been tricky.

One account can hold up to 2000 GA4 Properties.

User and Owner limits per property:

• Verified owners: Unlimited.
• Delegated owners: Capped at 500 total owners per property.
• Full users: Capped at 100 non-owners per property. [1]

 

[Mattk97]

Helpful to know! I think the varying caps for GA4 / GSC / GTM is where we'd just have to figure out the best organizational structure. Given the GSC caps of 1000 properties it sounds like we would be looking at needing to set up at least 2 or 3 primary accounts based on client load, and then delegate the respective 3-4 users per account for each GA4 / GTM / GSC property.

Primary Account A
- Up to 2000 GA4 properties
- Up to 1000 GSC properties
- Up to 500 GTM containers (?)

Common denominator being 500, so we'd like need to have 500 clients per primary account.

Then Matt for example would have user access to Client ABC's GA4, GSC, GTM to be able to view in his own Google account rather than logging in to a separate Client ABC google account.

Anything else we might be missing? We do already have an agency dashboard account set up for our managed GBPs.