There have been changes to your Google account. How to change basic personal information in your Google Account

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Keep in mind that you won’t be able to switch between active accounts on your device with one click, unless of course you have a tablet with built-in User Account Control running Andoid Kitkat. If you do not delete your existing account, you will then have to log into all applications that use your Google account and select the active user. This applies to the Gmail email program, the Google Play store, the Google Keep notes service and other Google services.

To delete an existing account, use the second point. Then, after you connect your tablet to a new account, all your applications, contacts, etc. will be synchronized with it, and you will be able to use all Google services under the new account (username).

To avoid deleting an existing account, you just need to go to the tablet settings, find the “Add account” item, and select “Google”.

And if you just want to change your first and last name, unfortunately, this cannot be done without changing the Google account that is linked to your tablet PC through the settings menu. To do this, you need to open your account settings in your browser. I recommend Google Chrome for these purposes. We launch the browser, and it immediately prompts you to log in using your username.

Click the “Login” button. Then we need to force the browser to launch the full version of the sites, because the mobile version will not have the functions we need. To do this, go to the browser settings and select “Full version”.

Your name and avatar will appear in the upper right corner. Click on your avatar and select “Settings”.

If you use Gmail in your Google account, it is currently not possible to change your Gmail username after registration is completed. However, you can with a different Gmail username.

If you don't use Gmail in your Google account You can change your account username to a different email address at any time. Your username is the full email address you provided when you created your account.

To change the email address in your account, follow these steps:

Visit the Google Accounts home page.
Sign in to your account.
Click Change In chapter Email addresses.
Enter your new email address and current password.
Click Save email address.

Once the changes are saved, an email will be sent to your new email address. To complete the change process, click on the link in this message. A confirmation message will also be sent to your old email address to register the changes to your account. If you do not receive a confirmation email, please check your spam folder.

Notes:

You cannot change the email address in your account if you have an existing Gmail address.
You can't change the email address in your account to an email address that's already associated with your Google Account.
If you want to set up a secondary email address as your new primary address, you must first remove the secondary email address from your account.
Your choice account username must be an active and valid email address that you can use.

Change, add a new one, or completely delete an existing one Google account On an Android device, this simple, step-by-step instruction with screenshots will help.

First of all, in the menu of your mobile device we find the item "Settings" . In the settings section you need to select the item “Accounts” (the name may vary slightly depending on the Android version, for example it could be “Accounts and synchronization” ). A list of existing accounts will open, where you need to select “Add account” .

Next, you need to choose what type of account you want to create. In our case it is Google. At the next stage, you will be asked to select an existing account or create a new one. If you already have a Google account, choose "Existing" . If not, create a new one; the instructions for adding an existing or new account are not much different.

The next step is to wait a few seconds while you log in and then choose whether you want to receive news from Google.

The next step will ask you to enter your payment information; you can skip this step. Next, you can select (check the box) which Google services should be synchronized with your mobile device through your account.

This completes the account adding stage.

Deleting a previous account

Since the task is to change the account, after adding a new account, you can delete the one that was there previously. To do this, you need to go back to the list of accounts and select Google. The list will include the account you just added, as well as the one that was previously on the mobile device. The one that was previously can be deleted if necessary.

To do this, by selecting the account to be deleted, call up the menu as shown in the screenshot and click "Delete" . Please note that after deleting an account, all associated services, contacts and other data attached to this account will be deleted from the mobile device.

Setting up mail on Gmail is necessary immediately after registering an account for convenient use of the new email account. Mail on Gmail.com has a large number of settings, especially in the new interface. In this article, "" will describe the basic settings that will be needed immediately after.

1. Add or change Gmail user photo and Google profile.

All pictures enlarge when clicked.

If your mailbox has been created but there is no profile photo or you want to change the picture, go to MAIL SETTINGS(top right corner of your Gmail inbox):

Next click ARE COMMON, find MY PICTURE, click CHANGE PICTURE. In the new window, select a photo on your computer, web album, or online. Crop the image and confirm the changes have been applied:

Add or change a photo on Gmail

IN GENERAL SETTINGS You can also enable or disable chat notifications, create messages at the end of outgoing emails, and enable an auto-reply for incoming emails.

2. How to set up an autoresponder for incoming emails in Gmail:

You will need an answering machine if, for example, you are going on vacation.

Go to MAIL SETTINGS - ARE COMMON, find the enable function ANSWERING AVAILABLE, set the date of the first day and the end of the answering machine, enter the text that will be contained in the letter sent from your mailbox in response to the incoming letter (if the account is closed at the time the letter is received).

After making changes to General Mail Settings, do not forget SAVE CHANGES:

Enable autoresponder on Gmail

3. How to change your Gmail or Google profile username:

IN MAIL SETTINGS click ACCOUNTS AND IMPORT. Find SEND EMAILS AS... and opposite the name and email address, on the right side, click CHANGE. In the new window, enter your new mail username and click SAVE CHANGES:

How to change your Gmail or Google profile username

4. How to set up import of mail and contacts to Gmail.com:

This Gmail mail setup will be needed by everyone who has other email accounts on Yandex or Mail.ru, Hotmail, etc. Letters from another Gmail account cannot be imported.

Step 1. Go to MAIL SETTINGS, further in ACCOUNTS AND IMPORT - IMPORT MAIL AND CONTACTS. Go to IMPORT MAIL AND CONTACTS. In the new window, enter the email address from where the import will take place and CONTINUE. In another window the password of that email and again CONTINUE:

Step 2. After checking the email address and password from where we are going to import data, a window opens. In it, check the boxes next to what you want to import and click START IMPORT:

How to set up import of mail and contacts to Gmail.com

5. When setting up Gmail, set the theme (background) of the mailbox:

Go to MAIL SETTINGS. In the list of settings, find THEMES. Select the background you like, specify your location and the theme will change.

Not long ago I wanted to change my account on Google. The reason for this was banal: I was tired of the old name, it wasn’t pretty, and it didn’t fit with my current nickname. After searching for Google help and googling, I found out that Google does not allow you to change the account name, or rather, it says that at the moment this is not possible. I almost gave up... But one thought haunted me: “What kind of admin are you? There is no such thing as the impossible."
So, this post will talk about how I changed my Google account and at the same time transferred all my data from the old account to the new one.

1. Let's start with mail
1.1. In an old box...
1.1.1. Go to “Settings”, and then to “Forwarding and POP/IMAP”, enable access via POP3, i.e. Check the box "Enable POP for all emails".
1.1.2. Now go to "Experimental Features". Here we find “Import/export filters” and enable this function.
1.1.3. Then we go to “Filters”, go down to the very bottom, click the “All” link and under it the “Export” button and save the list of filters on the computer.
1.1.4. Now let's move on to the address book. There is one nuance here: not all of my contacts were loaded, Google complained that either the file was large or it was damaged. I didn’t bother to figure out what and why, but exported only the “Address Book”, and not “All Addressees”, because... I don't need the latter. In general, this is done like this: click on the “Export” link on the right side of the address book and answer the question “Which address do you want to export?” We answer “Address Book Only”, and “Export Format” select the first one, i.e. “CSV format used by Google”, click the “Export” button and save the file to disk (for some reason I had it with Japanese characters in the name, so when saving I specified a different name instead of the default one).
1.1.4.1. You can also export contacts (all) to Outlook CSV Format, and then import them from this file. This may come in handy if Google complains (see section 1.1.4). Those. in this case, you can simply open this file in a text editor and split it into several files, and then download them in parts (this will not work with the “CSV format used by Google”, because it is encrypted).
1.2. In a new box...
1.2.1. We go to the address book and import contacts, i.e. On the left in the address book, click the “Import” link, then the “Browse” button, select the file with contacts that we exported earlier from the old mailbox and click the “Import” button. We wait a little and... it's done :)
1.2.2. Go to “Settings”, and then to “Filters”, go to the very bottom and click the “Import filters” link. The corresponding field appears below, in which we click the “Browse” button, select the saved file with filters (see paragraph 1.3) and click the “Open file” button. Filters were imported :)
1.2.3. Now go to “Accounts” and in the “Receive mail from other accounts” section, click the link “Add your mail account”. A new window (tab) will open, in which we enter the soap of the old box, click next, make the necessary settings (I think that you can figure them out yourself, there’s nothing complicated there) and click the “Add account” button.
All letters began to be slowly loaded into a new mailbox, and for now we will move on :)

2. Our favorite blog:)
2.1. In the old blog, go to “Settings” in the “Permissions” section, click the “Add Authors” button, enter your new Google soap in the field that appears and click the “Invite” button.
2.2. We check the soap and follow the link in the corresponding letter.
2.3. Enter your username and password and click the "Accept invitation" button
2.4. In the old blog, in the “Permissions” settings section, set “administrator” rights for the new account.
2.5. All:)

3. Notepad
3.1. In the old account, select the first notepad from the available ones and click the “Access Options” link.
3.2. In the appropriate field, enter the address of the new soap and click “Save”.
3.3. We repeat paragraphs 3.1-3.2. for all other notepads.
3.4. We check new mail and follow the links that will be in the letters.
3.5. We go to the new account in notebooks and see that there are notebooks from the old account.

4. Calendar
4.1. In the old account, go to “Settings” and go to the “Calendars” tab.
4.2. If there are several calendars, then the following steps must be performed for each.
4.3. Click the link “Open access to the calendar”.
4.4. Enter the address of the new soap and select “Make changes + provide access” in the drop-down list on the right, and then click the “Add” button.
4.5. We check the new mail and follow the link in the letter.
4.6. Now the calendar(s) are in the new account.

5. Documents
5.1. In the old account documents, on the left side, select “All records”.
5.2. Click the link “All XXX” below (XXX - number of documents), on the right side.
5.3. Now “Additional actions” -> “Change owner”.
5.4.1. Two spreadsheets did not want to be transferred, so I simply copied and pasted them.
5.5. Enter the name of the new account and click the "Change owner" button. It didn’t work for me the first time, i.e. Not all documents were transferred; I pressed this button several times.
5.6. If your documents are not in one group, but are arranged in folders, as I have now, then it is better to do this:
5.6.1. In new documents, create the entire folder structure as in old documents (folders are not transferred).
5.6.2. In the old account, enter the first folder and select all the documents, then transfer them to the new account, as described above.
5.6.3. In the new account, move these documents to the desired folder.
5.6.4. Repeat steps 5.6.1-5.6.3 for all other folders.
5.7. Now the documents are in the new account.

6. News reader, i.e. Google Reader
6.1. In the old account, go to "Settings" to the "Import and Export" tab, click on the link "Export subscriptions as an OPML file"
6.2. In the new account we repeat the same thing, only we import the OPML file.
6.3. All. I even transferred my folders :)

7. Picasa Web
7.1. In the old account, go to the first album, click the button on the right “Sharing”.
7.2. Enter a new soap and click send.
7.3. We repeat points 7.1.-7.2. for each album. Now they will be in the new account in favorites.
7.4. One BUT(!) - This is not a full-fledged transfer: (For a full-fledged transfer, you need to download and install the Picasa program, merge photos from the old account and upload them to the new one.

8. Google Analytics
8.1. In your old account, go to “Google Analytics Settings”.
8.2. Click the "Edit" link for the first profile.
8.3. Scroll down and click the “+ Add user” link.
8.4. Enter a new soap and below in the “Access Type” field, select “Account Administrator” and click the “Save Changes” button.
8.5. We repeat points 8.2.-8.4. for other profiles.
8.6. Check the soap, follow the link, enjoy :)

All! :) I did not transfer other services, because... there was no need. But everything is done in a similar way. Good luck:)

ZYZH: I wrote everything from memory, so it may not be necessary to confirm anything from memory everywhere. If you haven't received any soap, just try logging into your blog/calendar/notepad/etc. and see if anything new has been clarified. Otherwise, request confirmation again.

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Last week, changes occurred on Google's most popular service, video hosting. Google decided to integrate support for the comment system from its social network Google+ into it. The idea was first announced back in September, and after several weeks of limited testing, the system begins its slow but inexorable expansion on YouTube.

For what? Many people believe that in its current form, the Google+ social network looks more like a ghost town, rather than one of the most popular platforms for communication. Google thought and thought and decided that the best way to revitalize Google+ and make it a more active social network would be to add the entire active portion of YouTube users to it. By adding the Google+ comment system to YouTube, Google, as it itself believes, managed to “kill two birds with one stone.”

The company believes that comments on YouTube now largely do not reflect the special intelligence of the people who wrote them (and it’s hard to disagree with this), so Google, wanting to reduce the number of “early pioneers” and gather around itself a more meaningful, thinking community, decided that for For these purposes, the integration of social profiles of users from Google+ into the video hosting comment system is best suited. People will literally be forced to think about what they write.

“YouTube's comment system will now allow for more thoughtful discussions and conversations about videos. “The conversations that are important to you will be displayed,” the company’s blog page says.

Now, in order to be able to comment on a video, the user will have to create a page on the Google+ social network and connect it to the YouTube video hosting profile. This option appeared back in 2012, and some YouTube users actually did it. The video hosting itself allows the user to customize the level of display of his social activity on YouTube, offering to either save your own channel that you have already created, use your name (or nickname) in the postscript on it, or create a new channel. However, the social network Google+ will now definitely be involved in all these processes.

“The new system allows you to see comments under the video that are primarily important to you, discuss and communicate with friends from your circle on Google+,” the company writes.

“Also, you can see the newest comments by switching from the Top Comments tab to the Newest,” the blog adds.

Using the Google+ circles functionality, you can now monitor who sees your comments on YouTube videos.

“You can still write a message that everyone else can see. However, now there is an option that allows you to write comments on videos that will only appear within your circle of Google+ friends or to a specific person. Like Gmail, which allows you to write to either one person or send a newsletter to all your contact lists.”

It will become easier for owners of uploaded videos to monitor comments on their videos. Now it will be possible to view the submitted comment before it is published; add words to the filter that will be automatically blocked, or set automatic approval of comments for certain people.

Sounds like manna from heaven, right? But the users themselves are not happy with this integration of YouTube with the comment system from Google+, calling it the most terrible and inconvenient system in the whole world. You can verify this simply by reading the angry reviews under the video presentation of the “new service.” Interestingly, one of these people who has a negative attitude towards such ventures on the part of Google is one of the founders of YouTube. Karim Javed, who uploaded the first video in YouTube history almost eight years ago and has not been active on the video hosting site since then, unsubscribed:

"Rave! Why the hell do I now have to create a Google+ account to leave a comment on a video?”

That very first video in YouTube history

Some suggest that someone hacked Javed’s account - after all, they haven’t logged into it for eight years, and then they immediately unfollowed him, but whoever actually wrote this message, there is indeed truth in his words. Why should I create a page on Google+ if I don’t need it, I’m not going to make my circle of friends on it and be socially active in it?

Currently, YouTube settings allow you to “temporarily” unlink your Google+ page from your YouTube channel, but this “temporarily” only happens until you open your browser again. Thus, the author of these lines, due to the extreme inconvenience of the settings, has already created as many as 4 clone channels on video hosting. Please note that I am a person who is more or less savvy in these matters, but imagine that the same thing will be demanded from a person who has just visited YouTube for the first, second or third time and decided to leave a comment under the video. This will become torture! People are literally being forced to create a Google+ page if they want to continue commenting on YouTube. As they say in these cases, Google gives you a “-1” and a “dislike”!

In recent weeks, Google has been globally changing its algorithms, and many website owners have already experienced this.

WIX doesn't rank on Google

On August 10, we wrote that Google is threatening to demote a site in search results if Googlebot is unable to access the CSS and JS files on the site. Read more.

Just 2 weeks ago this came back to haunt sites created on the WIX platform - all sites created on this platform were no longer ranked in Google. The robots did not see the content on the pages and removed the sites from the index.

Google lowers the rankings of sites that purchase links to SAPE

On October 15, a wave of messages swept across the RuNet that Google had lowered the ranking of sites that purchased links to SAPE. Is this really so - no one has accurate data; Google does not officially confirm the information.

Let us remember that in March 2013, Google already introduced sanctions regarding links from Sape, then many sites lost positions.

Most likely, the changes now are related to the implementation of the Penguin algorithm in real time - this is the only logical explanation for what is happening. Let us remind you that Penguin is called upon to combat purchased links. And Google promised to bring the Penguin algorithm “to mind” by the end of 2015. Details .

Sites with duplicate content may rank better than the original source

Another discussed news in recent days was John Mueller's statement that Panda does not punish for duplicate content alone. Panda threatens for poor quality content in general. Read more about the Panda algorithm.

Google has confirmed that sites with stolen content can rank higher than the original source. The first places in the search results, according to Google, should be occupied by sites of better quality.

There are 2 more content related news worth mentioning.

Two more news about content for promotion on Google

Potentially dangerous sites are now excluded from Google results

On October 5, 2015, a message about updating the algorithms appeared on the official blog for Google webmasters. The changes are intended to remove hacked sites from search results.

Hackers most often try to hide the fact of hacking from site owners. Therefore, most owners of hacked sites are confident that everything is fine with their sites.

In turn, Google quite aggressively clears the results of such sites.

It's time to check your site for viruses. We wrote about how to do this in the corresponding article.

Schema.org Can Be Another Ranking Factor

At the next video meeting with webmasters ( link to video) John Mueller made it clear that Schema.org markup may soon begin to be taken into account when ranking sites. We wrote more about markup.

However, you should understand that markup will not be a signal for better ranking if there is low-quality content. John Mueller also warned savvy SEOs that Google can differentiate between a technically well-designed site and a site with truly useful content.

In any case, we recommend using semantic markup on your sites (and we definitely include this work in comprehensive promotion services) - it is the future, not only Google, but also Yandex speaks about this.

Mobile-friendly sites rank better

For the first time this summer, mobile searches on Google exceeded desktop searches.

We remind you that from April 21, 2015, sites that are inconvenient for viewing on mobile devices are ranked lower in mobile searches. This means that if you are interested in traffic from Google, then it’s time to make your site mobile responsive. How to check your website for mobile friendliness and what to do next, read this article.

So what is Google up to?

I think I’m unlikely to surprise anyone with the news that Google is just trying to make search results better. Yes, yes, I can hear your thoughts on this matter: “Thank you, Cap.”

But this is the way it is, and to successfully promote a website, an integrated approach is needed now more than ever:

Involving Internet marketers to develop a unique selling proposition (who among you can boast that he has something like this and no one else offers it?). Every second person considers “a wide range, good quality and reasonable prices” to be their USP; the trouble is that a good half of competitors also think the same... and this is no longer a USP.
Working with website usability, including display on mobile devices.
Writing not just unique texts, but texts with added value that are interesting to your target audience.
Getting natural links. Placing information in high-quality catalogues, communicating with the target audience on forums and social networks, crowd marketing. We wrote about other alternative methods. Google's official stance on links can be read here.

P.S. Don’t know how and what exactly to do to promote your website? Order comprehensive promotion from us.

P.P.S. A complete strategy for promoting your website as a gift - just call 8-800-500-89-91 (free for regions), 8-499-504-41-69 (phone in Moscow). SEO specialists answer calls Mon-Fri from 3 to 5 p.m. Moscow time.

Like most others, it is not ideal. It goes without saying that glitches can also occur there, which are especially noticeable when installing applications not taken from the official Play Market service and installing unofficial firmware. One of the most common is Google Android account synchronization error. Let's try to figure out how to get rid of it.

Google Android account sync error: typical glitches

First of all, we note that if such problems occur, when the user cannot use some of the system’s capabilities, you should not blame everything solely on the “operating system” or the device itself.

Most often, users encounter a message indicating a failure, the exact cause of which has not yet been clarified, but it can be assumed that it is associated solely with the actions of the user himself, as well as with incorrect login settings. Now gadgets with unofficial firmware will not be considered, since they themselves can harm the system and will have to be removed, returning the device to its original state.

Google Android account synchronization error: what to do?

The most unpleasant thing in a situation where a Google Android account synchronization error appears on a phone or tablet may be the so-called “stuck synchronization.”

In this case, as practice shows, the entire system hangs, and the failure can be corrected by simply rebooting the device. In most cases, this helps (think of frozen programs in Windows - when you reboot they work again).

Fixing a syntax error

It is likely that the Google Android account synchronization error on a tablet or smartphone may be caused by incorrectly entering your personal data (login and password).

Here you just need to enter the correct entries received during registration (the G-mail address is used as the login). As a last resort, you can try to recover your password.

Checking synchronization settings

Sometimes the Google Android account synchronization error is associated with incorrect settings in the system itself. You can, of course, try to return to factory settings, but in most cases this is not required. You just need to go to the settings and look at the enabled services.

As a rule, synchronization should be turned on for all accounts. To begin with, you can uncheck all services that require authentication, and then reboot the device. After this, when the device is turned on again, you should again enter the accounts section and check the boxes next to the appropriate services, including data transfer, browser, etc.

In some cases, it is mandatory to disable the two-level authentication system in your account security settings. In this case, it is also worth using auto-synchronization and data transfer to

Deleting an account

If all the methods given above do not help, and the Google Android account synchronization error appears again, you will have to take extreme measures - deleting the existing “account”.

To do this, use the settings menu, where you select the accounts section. Here we are interested in it, enter the Gmail address and confirm the deletion with the button below or the menu command.

Now, as is probably already clear, you should restart the device, after which, if you have an Internet connection and try to log into Google services, the system will prompt you to either create a new entry or use existing registration data. Enter your username and password and confirm your choice. If this does not help (for example, on devices with installed firmware), you will have to create a new “account”, but in this case there can be no talk of any restoration of the contact list or previously installed applications.

Conclusion

Although errors of this type are very common, they can be dealt with using the simplest methods and means that are not too complicated. It is enough to use only your mobile gadget. In this case, no connection to a computer with access to the installed control program is required.

In addition, it is worth noting that the problem of failures that occur on devices with firmware was not specifically addressed here. The fact is that when installing unofficial updates, a rather serious problem may arise regarding their safe removal, which requires special attention and maximum caution. Otherwise, the entire system can be brought to a state of complete inoperability.

Otherwise, the standard tools considered are the simplest and do not cause any difficulties for any user. Finally, it can be noted that you can also delete the data and cache of the service itself, but these parameters are relevant to the account synchronization error, as they say, insofar as.

“In March, Google search is undergoing some changes that can significantly affect the positions of sites. However, Google search representatives recommend that webmasters remain calm and systematically work on the quality of the site.”

In March, Google search is undergoing some changes that can significantly affect the positions of sites. However, Google search representatives recommend that webmasters remain calm and systematically work on the quality of the site.

Google does not have a button to remove a site from sanctions

Webmasters whose sites fall under Google filters often complain that it takes too much time to partially restore positions, even when all the errors have been eliminated. John Mudder explained why this happens.

The Google system does not provide any technical function for removing sanctions. Therefore, even if the site passes a manual check, the site’s position is unlikely to change. The expert calls moving to a new domain one of the possible options for quickly restoring the visibility of a site in searches: it is no less troublesome than working on eliminating errors and restoring reputation.

The same applies to situations with an increase in positions after work on the quality of the site. Thus, improving the content or removing content of low/questionable quality will not lead to a sharp increase in the site’s position in search. According to search representatives, you should not expect growth in positions earlier than in a few months.

At the level of page positions it will give results quite quickly. You can actually notice the growth immediately after the Google bot re-indexes the updated page. When it comes to the entire site, the process takes six months or more, since the algorithm re-evaluates all pages not only based on changes in content, but also on other factors that influence the site’s position in the search results.

Facts about the mobile-first index

Everyone knows that Google is systematically transferring all sites to a new type of indexing. We told you what the mobile-first index is and how it will affect the site. Google experts assure that mobile-first is not about how sites are ranked, but about how the indexing process occurs and how content is crawled. The assessment of factors influencing the positions of sites has not changed, the ranking algorithms remain the same. Content received by the system during the new indexing does not receive any ranking benefits.

To avoid changes in site rankings due to the transition to a mobile-first index, Google gives the following recommendations:

Desktop and mobile pages show the same content to the user– if the content of the mobile version is trimmed, then it’s time to finalize the mobile pages and supplement them with the necessary text and media content (graphics and video with alt tags and in formats accessible for indexing).
Micro markup mobile and desktop pages
Same metadata for desktop and mobile versions of pages