Review and approve optimized content

No optimized product, category or brand content goes to your live storefront until you approve it. The approval queue is where you compare original and optimized copy, edit anything you want to tweak, and approve.

The Awaiting Review queue

Open your CataSEO dashboard and select the Awaiting Review tab. You’ll see every product that’s been optimized but not yet approved.

Side-by-side comparison

Click any product in the queue to open the approval view. You’ll see the original copy on one side and the optimized copy on the other, field by field. Character counts are shown so you can see where the optimized copy fits within platform limits.

Edit before approving

Any field on the approval view is editable. Tweak whatever you want — change a phrase, shorten a description, swap a keyword. Your edits become the version that gets published.

For description fields, use the Rich text, HTML, and Preview toggle above the field to pick how you edit. Rich text is a formatted editor for normal wording changes. HTML edits the underlying markup directly. Preview shows how the description renders.

If a description contains layout code Rich text can’t safely represent — product tabs, embedded media, and similar — Rich text is disabled for that field (“This description contains layout code — edit as HTML”) and opens in HTML instead. If you’re editing in Rich text and a change would strip out markup it can’t preserve, CataSEO holds the edit rather than losing that markup (“This edit would remove: … Undo it here, or make the change in HTML.”) — undo the change or switch to HTML to make it there.

Approve one at a time

Click Approve on a single product to publish that product’s optimized copy. CataSEO writes the changes to your storefront immediately.

Approve in bulk

On the Awaiting Review tab, click Accept All to approve every product currently in the queue. CataSEO writes each one back to your storefront in sequence. The whole bulk action is grouped together so you can undo it if needed (see Undo or revert changes).

When changes go live

For Shopify, BigCommerce, Wix, and WooCommerce, approved changes appear on your storefront as soon as the platform’s API confirms the write — usually within a few seconds.

Blog posts don’t work this way

This page is about optimized product, category and brand content, which always waits for your approval. Blog posts don’t go through the approval queue at all: a post you save or publish on the Blog tab is written to your store’s blog right away, and a post you planned on the content calendar publishes itself on its date. See Blog posts.

FAQ

Can I approve some fields but not others on the same product? You can edit any field to whatever you want before approving — including reverting a single field back to its original. The “approve” action then publishes the version you see.

What if I want to keep my original copy? Just don’t approve. Optimized copy in the Awaiting Review queue stays there until you act on it. Your storefront copy is untouched.

Will customers see changes immediately after I approve? Yes — approved changes reach your storefront within seconds of the platform’s API confirming the write.

What if I approve something and want to take it back? Use Undo Accept All to reverse the most recent bulk approval, or use the revert action on an individual product. See Undo or revert changes.