Will GoogleBot see the Usercentrics Banner or is it excluded by the Usercentrics CMP?

Yes, the GoogleBot recognizes the Usercentrics banner. This is the default approach for every CMP.

Enterprise, Advanced, and Premium Add-On customers can also use our Bot Detection, which hides the CMP for bots. To do so, please contact your personal Customer Success Manager who will unlock the feature for you. With the "Bot Detection" feature, the CMP simulates an "accept all" for the Google Bot and hides the CMP.

If you want that GoogleBot to simulate the experience of a user after banner acceptance, you can use our global methods to accept all consents UC_UI.acceptAllConsents(); here in combination with the method UC_UI.closeCMP(); which will close the banner.

Google may judge a hiding of the CMP for the bot negatively.

Since it is not clear if the customization changes are 100% compliant regarding Googlebot, this must be a client-side decision. On the other hand, Googlebot will see the page with the banner: this could decrease your Web Vitals scores (e.g. CLS) since the visual component is present.

So it's more of an economic decision, the only thing we can say is that most of our clients so far have chosen to do nothing.

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How can I get help with technical questions?

@sharon.borensztein (Unlicensed) If you want that GoogleBot to simulate the experience of a user after banner acceptance, you can use our global methods to accept all consents UC_UI.acceptAllConsents(); here in combination with the method UC_UI.closeCMP();which will close the banner.