🛠️ How to Remove OTTO-Injected Body Text from Your Website Footer

If unexpected text is appearing below your website footer on every page, it is likely being pushed by content entered in the Miscellaneous → Body Text field inside your OTTO project. Follow the three steps below to stop the injection and permanently remove the text.

⚠️ Version note: These steps apply to OTTO V3, the current default version. If your account shows a legacy OTTO V2 interface, contact Search Atlas support for assisted migration before proceeding.

🔴 Step 1: Disengage OTTO

Go to Search Atlas → OTTO SEO and open your site's OTTO project. If you cannot locate it by name, navigate directly to the OTTO Tasks Dashboard.

▶️ Click Disengage OTTO to pause all active content injections.

🔍 If your project does not appear by site name, use the OTTO Tasks Dashboard and filter or scroll to locate the correct project.

👥 If you manage multiple sites, ensure you are looking under the correct workspace.

⚠️ Important warning: Disengaging OTTO pauses all OTTO-managed optimisations across your site — including title tags, meta descriptions, schema markup, and more — not just the body text injection. Proceed only if you are ready to temporarily remove all active OTTO deployments, or if you plan to re-engage OTTO after completing Step 3.

✅ Once disengaged, OTTO stops delivering content to your pages. New visitors will stop seeing the injected text as soon as your cache is cleared in Step 2.

🗑️ Step 2: Clear Your Site Cache

Clearing your cache ensures the change takes effect immediately for all visitors. Use the method that matches your setup:

🔌 WordPress caching plugin (WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, W3 Total Cache): Open the plugin settings and click Clear Cache.

☁️ Cloudflare: Go to Caching → Configuration and select Purge Everything.

🖥️ Hosting-level cache: Contact your hosting provider or use their control panel to flush the server cache.

✅ After clearing the cache, reload a page on your site and scroll to the bottom to confirm whether the injected text has disappeared. If it is gone, proceed to Step 3 to ensure it cannot return.

✏️ Step 3: Delete the Body Text from the Miscellaneous Tab

Return to your OTTO project inside Search Atlas. Click the Miscellaneous tab in the left-hand navigation panel.

🔎 Locate the Body Text field and delete all content entered there.

💾 Save your changes.

🔄 You may now safely re-engage OTTO if desired. All other optimisations — title tags, meta descriptions, schema, and more — will continue to apply. Only the deleted body text will be gone, preventing the injection from reappearing if OTTO is re-engaged in the future.

✅ Verifying the Fix

Visit several pages on your site and scroll to the bottom of each page. The injected text should no longer appear below the footer.

🚨 If the content is still visible after clearing your cache, contact Search Atlas support. A specialist can confirm whether the deployment rollback has been applied on the server side and push an additional correction if needed.

🌀 Website Studio users: If your site was built in Search Atlas Website Studio and the text persists even after following all three steps, a known issue (LPS-984) may require engineering intervention. Contact support directly for assistance.