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ConsentGuard SEO Beta

How your cookie banner affects search engines and measurement. A check, not legal advice

A cookie banner can hide text and links from search engines until a visitor agrees. ConsentGuard SEO finds your consent tool on every scan and tells you when it changes.

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Why it matters

From the problem to what SEOmise does

The problem

A banner between your page and the search engine

Consent tools decide what loads before a visitor agrees. Set up well, they hold back trackers and leave your content alone. Set up badly, they hide text, links or the page's title until someone clicks, and a search engine never clicks. A new plugin or theme can swap the tool without anyone noticing.

What ConsentGuard SEO does

How your cookie banner affects search engines and measurement. A check, not legal advice

  • Never one signal alone. A tool is named "likely" only from two kinds of signal: its script, its banner's markup, its code on the page or its cookie. One alone is shown as "possible".
  • The common consent tools. Cookiebot, Usercentrics, OneTrust, CookieYes, Complianz, iubenda, Osano, Didomi, Termly, Quantcast and InMobi Choice, Shopify's own banner, Borlabs, Axeptio and more, plus banners a site writes itself.
  • Google Consent Mode as your page shows it. Whether a default is set in the page, which of the seven types it names, whether it comes before the Google tag, and when it may be set inside Tag Manager instead, marked as not verified.

How it works

Three steps, start to finish

  1. Scan as usualEvery website health scan reads your start page once. ConsentGuard SEO reads the same answer: nothing extra is fetched.
  2. See your consent toolWebsite health → Consent & SEO names the tool, how sure it is, the signals behind it, and what your page says about Google Consent Mode and IAB TCF.
  3. Hear when it changesWhen the next scan finds another tool, or none, the owners and admins of the workspace are told, and the project timeline records it.

Features

What you get with ConsentGuard SEO

Never one signal alone

A tool is named "likely" only from two kinds of signal: its script, its banner's markup, its code on the page or its cookie. One alone is shown as "possible".

The common consent tools

Cookiebot, Usercentrics, OneTrust, CookieYes, Complianz, iubenda, Osano, Didomi, Termly, Quantcast and InMobi Choice, Shopify's own banner, Borlabs, Axeptio and more, plus banners a site writes itself.

Google Consent Mode as your page shows it

Whether a default is set in the page, which of the seven types it names, whether it comes before the Google tag, and when it may be set inside Tag Manager instead, marked as not verified.

Honest about what it cannot see

The IAB TCF version and whether the tool answers need a real browser, so they say "not checked yet" rather than a guess.

The page as a fresh visitor, after reject and after accept Beta

Your pages opened in a throw-away browser with no consent, after "reject" and after "accept", compared for text, links, titles and structured data. The browser checks are in early access: ask for them and our team tells you when they open.

Nothing installed, nothing changed

It reads your pages from outside, like the scan, on any platform. It never changes your site or your consent settings.

Before and after

What changes with ConsentGuard SEO

Before: without ConsentGuard SEO. After: with ConsentGuard SEO. Drag the handle, or use the arrow keys, to compare.

Without ConsentGuard SEO

  • Nobody knows which banner the site runs
  • A plugin update swaps the banner unnoticed
  • Consent Mode set up "somewhere" in Tag Manager

With ConsentGuard SEO

  • The consent tool named, with its signals
  • A notice when the tool changes
  • Consent Mode as your page shows it, with what is unverified
BeforeAfter

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What it needs

No surprises after you sign up

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Website health

Website health

ConsentGuard SEO reads the pages the site scan already fetched.

Every platform

Whatever your site runs on

What ConsentGuard SEO does on each kind of website, from SEOmise's site connectors to step-by-step guidance.

WordPress

WordPress and WooCommerce
Fully supported

Reads the site from outside: Complianz, CookieYes, Cookiebot, Borlabs and other consent plugins are recognised. Nothing to install.

Laravel

Sites built on Laravel
Fully supported

Reads the site from outside, whatever banner it uses. Nothing to install.

Any PHP site

Custom PHP, CodeIgniter, Symfony, Drupal, Joomla
Fully supported

Reads the site from outside, whatever banner it uses. Nothing to install.

Every other platform

Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, static sites and the rest
Fully supported

Shopify (its own customer privacy banner), WooCommerce, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, React and other JavaScript apps: nothing to install.

About the site connectors

ConsentGuard SEO is in beta

It is not on sale yet, so there are no prices for it. Leave your name and e-mail address and we will tell you as soon as you can use it.

Questions about it?

Ask Mise, our assistant, in the help centre, or book a call and we will tell you where ConsentGuard SEO stands and what you can use today.

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Questions

ConsentGuard SEO: common questions

Is this a legal compliance check?

No. It is a check of how your banner affects search engines and measurement. A tool holding back analytics until a visitor agrees is normal and never counts against your SEO. For privacy questions, use the cookie and privacy scanner.

How sure is the name of the consent tool?

Each tool shows a confidence and the signals behind it. A tool found by one kind of signal only is shown as "possible", never as certain.

Why does Consent Mode say "not verified"?

Consent Mode can be set inside Google Tag Manager or by the consent tool's own script, which the page source does not show. Until the browser checks open, ConsentGuard SEO says so rather than reporting it as missing.

Does it cost extra?

Finding the consent tool on your scans is included. The browser checks are in early access.

Can I use ConsentGuard SEO now?

ConsentGuard SEO is in beta: it is not on sale yet. Use Ask for early access and we will e-mail you as soon as it is ready for you. Other modules and the plans are on the pricing page.

Guides

ConsentGuard SEO: how-to guides

Every guide in the help centre

Be among the first to try ConsentGuard SEO

ConsentGuard SEO is in beta. Ask for early access and we will e-mail you when it is ready for you; nothing is bought.

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No ranking guarantees: just clear work, with the evidence.