How to Change the Primary email Associated with Google Plus Account

How to Change the Primary email Associated with Google Plus Account in case you want to transfer the ownership of a official website’s Google Plus Page, have you ever thought of this situation ? If you already faced the problem and searching for a solution on how to change the Primary email Associated with Google Plus account, here are two ways to perform the work. First is by an average user and second is for those who have a Google Plus Platform developer’s account like us.

How to Change the Primary email Associated with Google Plus Account

A good example can be, suppose I registered a page for AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) using the account with the Google Plus page’s name as AIIMS, and it now should be changed to AIIMS’s official email to transfer the ownership as simply I do not own AIIMS. Or take that, you are selling your business or website, in that case, the Primary email Associated with Google Plus Account might needed to be changed.

Step One to Change the Primary email Associated with Google Plus Account

Create a common non Gmail email account whose password is known both to you and the person you want to transfer as the person or you will not disclose your passwords to each other !

Step Two to Change the Primary email Associated with Google Plus Account

Login with your old email password, for which you are actually reading this article How to Change the Primary email Associated with Google Plus Account.

From this URL, you will get all the pages associated with an account :

This is just to provide the reference to the next Google Account user, it has no direct relationship with this guide How to Change the Primary email Associated with Google Plus Account.

In ‘logged in condition’ , visit this webpage :

Copy paste it to any text editor like notepad, copy the URL and paste on browser address bar. Do not directly copy paste as it might add other characters, here you will reach :

Keep that newly created non Gmail email account’s inbox open on another tab (whose password is known both to you and the person you want to transfer).

Step Three to Change the Primary email Associated with Google Plus Account

Soon, two emails will appear in both old and this common email’s inbox. For older email, you need not to do anything. Its for security purpose. The email that will arrive on the new email’s (the common one) is important. You need to click the link while logged in (with old email, obviously) on the same browser. You will get confirmation page that change has take place.

Now the new owner can use the email and password to login and follow the method to get full administrative power. This is the most complex situation and your basic question, How to Change the Primary email Associated with Google Plus Account has been solved !

How to Change the Primary email Associated with Google Plus Account for the G+ Platform Developers

With Google Plus Developers Account, you can change with OAuth without the need of so much manual work with simple Python app. You will get such simple apps with your developer account or can use any script from GitHub. Do not run such App or script from non SSL domain where you have no control.

Note :  Deactivate 2-step verification if you activated it for your old account.

How to Change the Primary email Associated with Google : Be careful about Authorship

If you are somewhat important person and have properly set Authorship verification markup as we published before,  to make it more clear, I have to clear the rel tags properly too, as a precaution, otherwise Google Search will still show up my face in Google Search Result :

The above search result is normal, in fact it is a wanted feature as the domain is mine, but with a verified profile and with various unknown parameters to Google, including geo tags, it can show for domain you never own but have email and / or name. One example can be some WordPress Plugins search result where profile of developer shows up. Its not directly related to our problem – How to Change the Primary email Associated with Google Plus Account, but it is a fact that can occur. It probably matches profile with other RDF microdata including Dublin Core.

Ask the new owner to revoke access or delete the previously verified email, if there any.