SEO issues

  • Hi there!
    We have found some SEO issues with the cookie banner.
    When disabling some options in banner settings, Complianz is only applying a display:none with CSS. This is a serious issue because we don’t want some text and links to be displayed in source on each page. For instance, we have a link to https://cookiedatabase.org/tcf/purposes/ which is just hidden with CSS.
    Search Engines bot needs light source code to crawl efficiently each page. So we only have to show them useful content.
    Let me know if I’m not clear. Thanks!

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  • Plugin Contributor Aert Hulsebos

    (@aahulsebos)

    Hi @maigret,

    This is the HTML <a class="cmplz-link cmplz-external cmplz-read-more-purposes tcf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cookiedatabase.org/tcf/purposes/">Read more about these purposes</a>

    The nofollow attribute is based on; https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/09/evolving-nofollow-new-ways-to-identify

    If this is not correct, please let me know.

    The why:

    The cookie banner, no matter the region or configuration is built on one HTML template, and an aggregated CSS file. This means it can be in essence anything you’d like. For example, removing all unnecessary HTML is possible as well:

    Under 3. Start from scratch, edit your custom HTML template and custom CSS at https://complianz.io/create-your-own-banner-from-scratch/

    It’s a pretty simple approach, and will take 5 minutes with FTP ready.

    Hope this helps,

    regards Aert

    Hi @maigret,

    We haven’t heard from you in a while, is the issue resolved? We are happy to help you further.

    Kind regards, Kim van Dijk

    Thread Starter Aurélien Denis

    (@maigret)

    Hi, thanks for your anwser!

    Obviously I can create a custom HTML template for the cookie banner but it’s still strange for me that something that was checked to be disable is just hidden in front.

    Plugin Contributor Aert Hulsebos

    (@aahulsebos)

    Hi @maigret,

    This is due to the one template, modular set-up as explained above. Please tell me why this would be an issue with the HTML attributes provided so we can see what we can do.

    Thanks, regards Aert

    Thread Starter Aurélien Denis

    (@maigret)

    Hi,
    let’s say you make a big update on the HTML template that I’m using in my custom development. It could have impact on my customers websites and add costs to update it according to these updates.
    I always prefer using PHP hooks to filter original code.
    In my case, disabling some features here could be done with this approach like almost every WordPress plugins did. ??

    Plugin Contributor Aert Hulsebos

    (@aahulsebos)

    Hi @maigret,

    The custom template has a filter. If we update afterwards nothing will change for you, or your clients.

    If you follow this; https://complianz.io/create-your-own-banner-from-scratch/ everything should work as you desire.

    regards Aert

    Thread Starter Aurélien Denis

    (@maigret)

    Hi @aahulsebos!

    All right, I’ll give it a try.

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