Unfortunately, this method is no longer working. I called and entered customer ID and then # and was disconnected 4 times. I finally got to speak to an ad sense sales person who forwarded me to another general Google customer service number and was told that they no longer provide customer support. Still desperately trying to recover lost analytics data when account got deleted by accident. Any other help?

You should win an award. Can’t thank you enough!

Dude you are awesome! I called the number and did exactly what you said and it worked. They restored two deleted accounts for me. Thanks so much for the super-helpful post. Saved me a lot of headache!

Joel,
A rogue seo did this to our account as well. Thanks a million for this advice. I called and they are looking into it for me. Contrary to popular opinion, the Google rep was super helpful. Fingers crossed that my account can be restored. BTW, love the amp-look of your site!

Hello Joel,

Thanks so much for this post! Clearly it is too easy too accidentally delete a Google Analytics user account. I can see how it seems that you are just deleting a profile from your list, not expecting the whole account to go. This is exactly what an employee from our former web agency has done.

Just called the number you quoted in the US and I was forwarded by the Google Adwords support as he wasn’t qualified on Analytics. The second guy I spoke to was VERY helpful and after running through some security questions, he said they would “most probably be able to restore the account within an indeterminate number of business days”. He said the graph would be flatlined over the days since the account was “deleted”, but that all previous analytics would be restored.

Fingers crossed now 🙂

Thanks for posting this, Joel. I was cleaning out accounts from my list, most of which were for websites that no longer exist. Unfortunately, one of them belonged to a former client who built a new website over a year ago but was still using the same analytics account. In my spring-cleaning zeal I deleted that one, too. I got a nasty note from the former client, but at least she was good enough to provide me a link to this page. I called Google and they will have it back up within 24 hours. Thanks so much for posting this information – a real heart-attack saver, for sure!

I had a contractor do this (accidentally delete) three of my client accounts. The contractor is a friend of mine but I still want to kill her. 🙂

I called the number, spoke to a rep and provided them with the tracking ID’s of the deleted accounts as well as an admin email for those accounts. Today, I had have yet to receive a reply and still do not see my accounts. I called back. They are now telling me that it takes several WEEKS to re instate the accounts. Ugh.

Not ideal but as long as I can get the data back ……. Guess you early birds got lucky with your turn around times.

What a relief this post is! I had the hardest time getting through to anyone without an AdWords account number. I ended up using one that was not connected to the Analytics account I deleted and that got me to someone who helped. Phew! Thanks. I suggest if you don’t have an AdWords account, you get one before you call 🙂

Thank you so much Joel! It worked exactly as you described. I had my account reinstated within 2 hours.

I did the same terrible mistake 🙁 I deleted a useless account and lost one very important too.
Then I called to the support center in my country and after a couple of hours they wanted me to confirm by the administrative email that I am the owner of the account and have deleted it by accident.
After half an hour my account was recovered, but when I opened it, I found that it is EMPTY! All the information is missing!
It is hopeless! The girl from the support center told me that there is nothing to do to get the data back!

Update on my previous post – it took almost a week to fix so lost a valuable 7 days worth of data but SO much better than the alternative! I can’t thank you enough for taking the time to post this extremely helpful advice.

It was also very reassuring in the midst of the heart stopping panic to realise that there were lots of other intelligent and savvy people who had suffered the same fate. I still can’t believe it was so easy to do.

Thank you again!

Hi Joel- you’re a life saver!!

I deleted an old client’s account to make room for another account, not realising that it deletes ALL the data and ALL the access for everyone else! Needless to say the client was not impressed.

I’m in New Zealand and I initially tried the NZ AdWords sales number with no success, but clicked through onto my AdWords account and selected the Live Chat option. Boom! Within 10 minutes of chatting to someone (in India) had my account access restored and within a few hours got all the historical data back too! Sweet as!

Thanks for your post and I hope this information saves other unfortunate souls.

Damian.

Moltes gracies, Joel.

Your blog post was among the top responses when I searched how to restore deleted Analytics account. Pretty much the same scenario happened here today and it my data is back 1/2 hour after reading your page!

Hi Joel.

Really hoping this works. Will call them first thing on Monday morning. Deleted the view after reading some bad advice on a website. My tracking hasn’t been working since I done a complete update so was trying to revert back to classing tracking code…

Hi Joel. I’ve never written a comment before on an article but your post changed this. An old contractor deleted some of our analytics profiles (on accident). I found your post, which is by far the most helpful post on retrieving deleted accounts… in fact on getting a live person at Google, period. I called the phone number, entered our google ad customer number, choose Analytics when prompted and within 30 seconds was transferred to an actual person who helped us get our profiles back. Thank you soo soo much. I too could kiss you!

Oh my oh my, thank you so much for posting this. I ended up calling the Irish AdWords support and they had me fully restored within about 30 minutes.

In our foolish youth we had added multiple different websites to a single GA Account, instead of setting up individual accounts for each one. As a result we had about 15 client websites in the account I mistakenly deleted.

I nearly had a heart attack but your post totally calmed me down and then AdWords support sorted it all.

I believe had I not linked my AdWords account to this GA Account, then it may not have been possible via AdWords support, and I would have needed to contact a Google Analytics Certified Partner to get them on the case.

Thanks!

I can back Zane up on his recent comment — Joel’s advice still works almost 2.5 years later! You’ll need to have an AdWords account, but with that in hand, a Google support rep was able to restore my deleted Analytics property in about 10 minutes via chat. Just click the gear icon at top right in your AdWords Dashboard view, select Chat, and choose “Google Analytics” as the issue category. In my case, a (well intentioned) colleague was trying to remove the property from his own Analytics Dashboard, and didn’t realize he was deleting the Property entirely. All fixed now — thanks Joel!

Thank you Joel! While I was on hold waiting for the Adwords rep, I was able to chat with a rep and they were able to fix it in fifteen minutes. Your page saved me!

Still working in Feb 2015. Thank you so much. Saved me from what would have been a terrible time in my life. How can I repay you? Can I send you a donation? beer? gift cards? You name it! Thank you!

You just saved my life with this post.

Thanks for the info… I couldn´t recover my account 🙁