I’m trying to reclaim our Google Analytics, for some reason we lost access to it (keep asking us to sign up as if we never established an account). We reached out to Google Support, they said that they contacted the account owner, but I did not receive any email from them at any of my accounts. (I have always been the only one who had access to the analytics) And the other method they proposed, was for me to upload a text file to the root level of our Shopify, which I am having a hard time with. Any idea how I can do that or any idea the best way to reclaim a google analytic account? Thanks!!
A good way to deal with is to upload the txt file to the setting/files page.
Then create a redirect from yourdomain.com/the-google-txt-file-name to the direct link of the uploaded txt file. That helped me verify my Shopify account.
A different way to do it would be to upload a txt file in your domain names dns settings.
From reading the posts above, it sounds like you’re going to want to use Shopify’s redirect tool (Online Store > Navigation > Url Redirects (Right under the heading of that page) and click Create URL Redirect.
The redirect “from” will be the URL that Google is trying to search, while the redirect “to” will be the url of the file, which you should be able to determine in your settings/files.
EDIT: Trying to replicate and it doesn’t actually seem to work with txt files anymore? Could’ve sworn it was working before.
Go ahead and upload your txt file to your File Manager located at Settings > Files (the gear icon on the bottom left of your site’s admin panel). You will now have the URL for the file on your Shopify site.
From here you want to make sure that your From address is is the URL that Google is looking for while your To address will be the URL of your file from the File Manager.
I’ve already verified my Shopify site no problem for Adsense but now I’m trying to upload a txt file to the root level domain of my site. Having a hard time with this as I’m a bit of a newb.
I’m having same issue, loading up a text file to verify for apple pay. but the redirect is not working, not getting to that file. if i test the url apple will check i get a whole bunch of numbers not the text file.
I have been trying this for days now. The person that ran our google ads account left the company and we have been trying to recover the login. I have the the txt file created. It’s saved in Settings/Files, I have created the Redirect From my domain: www.example.com/analytics.txt (google instructions said to save the txt file as analytics and add it to the end of your domain) then i copied and pasted the Settings/File created URL as the Redirect To. When you test it it just takes you to a blank page? Google sends me an email back saying the link does not work… try again dummy. Any Ideas??
