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Cookie consent for Rank Math SEO
an seo plugin with a google tag
Rank Math sets no cookie for your visitors, but it can install Google Analytics itself. With Install analytics code on, it prints the Google tag on every page, and that tag needs consent. Rank Math sets no consent default of its own: that is the consent plugin’s job.
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Rank Math SEO
WordPress plugin
- Tested version
- 1.0.281
- How
- Tested automatically around each Cookie Rocks version
- Last test
- 7 November 2026
- Latest version
- 1.0.281 tested
- Active installs
- 4,000,000+
What Rank Math adds to your visitors’ browser
No trackers In our test of Rank Math SEO 1.0.281 on 7 November 2026, the plugin itself added no tracker and no cookie. What you place in your pages with it, such as a video or a map, still counts.
What Rank Math puts on your pages
- Meta tags and structured data
- Titles, descriptions, social tags and JSON-LD. No script, no cookie.
- The Google tag, if you turn it on
- Install analytics code, in its Analytics settings, prints the Google tag in the page head: Google Analytics. Its cookies need consent under the GDPR.
- A self-hosted Analytics file (PRO)
- Rank Math PRO can serve the Google tag from your own site instead of Google’s.
- Local Business map
- With a Google Maps key and the map turned on, its Local Business block shows Google Maps.
What matters for consent with Rank Math
The Google tag needs consent
With Install analytics code on, Rank Math’s Google tag sets Google Analytics cookies from the first page. Under the GDPR and similar laws, they need consent.
One consent default, set first
Rank Math sends no Consent Mode default. Cookie Rocks sets Google’s default before Rank Math’s tag, and in basic Consent Mode holds the tag until consent.
Self-hosted file, recognised differently
Cookie Rocks recognises the Google tag by its address at Google. A copy served from your own site does not carry that address. Keep Rank Math PRO’s self-hosted Analytics file off if you want the tag held.
Cookieless mode is not consent-free
Rank Math PRO’s cookieless Analytics mode builds a visitor ID from browser and device features. Rank Math itself advises checking its legal status.
No WP Consent API
Rank Math does not read WP Consent API. Consent for its tag goes through Google’s Consent Mode and the holding of the tag.
What our tests found on Rank Math
Good to know · Yoast SEO, Rank Math SEO, All in One SEO, Wordfence, Really Simple SSL, WP Armour, AkismetSeven SEO and security plugins set nothing for visitors by default
by default: Default settings
Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO, Wordfence, Really Simple SSL, WP Armour and Akismet set no cookie, use no storage and load no known third-party tool.
Seen in our tests, 17 October 2026, Yoast SEO, Rank Math SEO, All in One SEO, Wordfence, Really Simple SSL, WP Armour, Akismet 28.7, 1.0.280, 5.0.3, 9.0.2, 9.8.3, 2.4.02, 5.7.2. Source
Full detail
On a fresh WordPress home page with default settings, Yoast SEO, Rank Math SEO, All in One SEO, Wordfence, Really Simple SSL, WP Armour and Akismet set no cookie for the visitor, keep nothing in the browser's storage and load no known third-party tool, after Accept all.
Good to know · Rank Math SEORank Math prints the Google tag with no Consent Mode default
setting “Install analytics code” · by default: off
With Install analytics code on, the Google tag is a plain tag in the page head. Rank Math sets no cookie for visitors and does not use the WP Consent API.
Read in its code, 16 October 2026, Rank Math SEO 1.0.280.
Full detail
With Install analytics code on, Rank Math prints the Google tag in wp_head as a plain tag (script id google_gtagjs, async, googletagmanager.com/gtag/js) with an inline script google_gtagjs-inline holding only gtag('js') and gtag('config'), no gtag('consent') default. Rank Math sets no cookie for visitors (its only setcookie is an admin date-range cookie) and does not use the WP Consent API.
How we test it
Around each version, with its latest release
Around each Cookie Rocks version, a fresh WordPress installs its latest version from WordPress.org next to Cookie Rocks and runs the same checks. A new version joins the next run on its own.
- Rank Math SEO 1.0.281, tested on 7 November 2026.
- The banner shows, the trackers of the test page wait for consent and load after it, and Cookie Rocks raises no PHP error.
- Settings of the test: Default settings after activation.
- Last run: Rank Math SEO 1.0.281 on 7 November 2026, with WordPress 7.1.3.
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Questions
Does Cookie Rocks change Rank Math settings?
No. The two plugins work side by side. Cookie Rocks acts on the Google tag in your pages, not on Rank Math.
Should I turn off Rank Math’s analytics code?
No need. Cookie Rocks handles the tag it prints, like any Google tag in your pages.
Does Rank Math need consent for itself?
Not for its SEO features: they set no cookie for visitors. Only the Google tag and the map do.
What happens after the 30-day trial?
The banner, your visitors’ choices and your proofs of consent keep working. Without a key, most settings lock, updates and support stop. Take a key at any time and everything opens again.
For Rank Math users
Your analytics, after the visitor’s choice.
rank math stays on
Every feature of the complete plugin for 30 days, no card. Rank Math keeps working as it does today.
- During the trial: everything, including the full settings and the scans
- After 30 days without a key: the banner, your visitors’ choices and your proofs of consent keep working
- What waits for a key: most settings, updates and support
Get your trial key
Your e-mail and your site. Your key arrives as soon as you confirm your e-mail.