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SearchEngineJournal has a story about this guy that gave the keys to his business to Google. Well, not exactly the keys, but he used a Gmail account for all his business emails, and had used the same account for his customers Google Analytics, Webmaster Tools and his own Google Adsense.
And then one day he woke up and found out that Google disabled his Gmail account.

From that moment on, not only his Adsense income stopped and he couldn’t access any email he kept in his Gmail Inbox, but all the emails sent to him by his customers were routed to a voided account.
I can’t even think how to start handling such a crisis. What do you do first? Well, I have a few ideas but that’s for a different post.
The question I’m asking is what the hell where you thinking about when you gave Google the keys to your business? (Are you out of your mind?)

If you still want to use a Google account for your business there are a few things you should do:
1. Make sure you backup your account on a regular basis.

2. Get your own domain and use Google Apps. This way in case of emergency you can change your MX Records back you to your original hosting whiting a few hours.

3. Never use your personal account for your Google Adwords.

4. Never use your personal account for your Google Analytics.

5. Never Ever use your personal account for your Google Adsense.

Don’t let them catch you unprepared.

Google had recently launch a few extremely innovative features, some of them put a big smile on my face. I love creativity, and I love innovation. Google seem to be really good at both.One of those features is the Are you sure it is a good idea to send emails when you’re drunk gmail option, which asks you some math questions in case you are sending emails very late at night.

Another one is the forgotten attachment detector, that checks if there is really an attachment attached to your email in case your message includes any text regarding an attached file.

For the last example for today, check my latest securiteam post, where I wrote about the way Google Chrome handles https certificates that expired. 

These kind of developments remind me every day that the people that make Google are simply brilliant. It is not just another interenet company. This one is something else.