SEO Killer

  • fcrusius

    (@fcrusius)


    2 years, 5 months ago

    It doesn’t achieve GDPR compliance, not in the free variation. My Google Ads show even if the user hasn’t yet given consent and then all cookies are in. And if I deactivate advertisements and 3rd party cookies, all cookies are right back as soon as I reload the page, because ads still show.

    What it does achieve very efficiently: IT KILLS SEO AND RANKINGS. First off, Google penalizes for the abysmal load performance resulting from this plugin’s 3 javascript files, 2x jQuery and then 1x plugin specific, plus CSS files. Google Speed Test says scripts are blocking main thread!! Second, all the cookie texts and options are coded into each and every page of the website. Afterwards, the dominant keywords will be “cookie”, “compliance” or similar, because search engines have a hard time separating content from all the cookie spam.

    I would have given it two stars for actually deleting some cookies at times. But then the good looks of all the cookie options are so misleading that its implementation shortcomings need to be addressed! Just one thing in the defense of this plugin: it’s amongst the better free cookie plugins. At the moment a good cookie compliance plugin for WordPress does not seem to exist. I found none that would achieve true compliance without charging excessive fees, or even limit the number of pages or clicks, and then not on top of all sink rankings into oblivion.

    I ended up coding my own plugin.

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by fcrusius. Reason: typo
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  • Plugin Author WebToffee

    (@webtoffee)

    2 years, 5 months ago

    Hi @fcrusius,

    We are extremely sorry for the inconvenience caused.

    In order to block cookies, you must add the script of the cookies via the plugin’s cookie categories itself. In your specific case, the google adsense script should have been placed via the category edit page’s head scirpt field inside the advertisement category.

    As for other issue regarding site performance, we are working on improving the plugin such that it would have a lesser impact on the site w.r.t site load. As for the key words, it is something we can’t help as the cookie policy page is supposed to have those words in repeat while it describes the cookie usage in the site.

    Thanks for your genuine feedback as this would realy help us point in the right direction and understand the users better.

    Thread Starter fcrusius

    (@fcrusius)

    2 years, 5 months ago

    Hi, thanks for reply. Yea, I was wondering what to do with the script input options in admin of your plugin. I am not using google ads from header, as this doesn’t address issues as the obligation to mark ads as ads, or “Anzeige”, which google doesn’t do when placing them through their global header script. And I looked for and didn’t see an option for a shortcode placing in-page ads in a controlled manner.

    Technically, there is little need for jQuery these days and that’s the main performance issue, aside of not bundling CSS at least into one file, or limiting CSS to a short and direct header insertion. Google reports page blocking times down from 1s to 10ms in my case, and I’m still showing a cookie bar.

    So in Google Cache I found a text of a length of 3381 bytes of cookie messages from your plugin at the bottom of each page. And I don’t think there’s any legal obligation for that. Why not put a link to the cookie policy in the cookie dialog explaining all that, should anyone really want to read.

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