Cloaking

[rajivwebads]

Cloaking refers to any of several means to serve a page to the search-engine spider that is different from that seen by human users. It can be an attempt to mislead search engines regarding the content on a particular web site. Cloaking, however, can also be used to ethically increase accessibility of a site to users with disabilities or provide human users with content that search engines aren't able to process or parse. It is also used to deliver content based on a user's location; Google itself uses IP delivery, a form of cloaking, to deliver results. Another form of cloaking is code swapping, i.e., optimizing a page for top ranking and then swapping another page in its place once a top ranking is achieved.

[dagnyjbarber]

ts a black hat seo technique.

[butchfernandes382]

Cloaking is a Blackhat SEO tactic that aims to mislead search engines and is never encouraged. Search engines view the page differently from the users.

[JesseTaylor]

I agree with your Cloaking is a blackhat SEO. It is not right.

[vino]

Cloaking takes a user to other sites than he or she expects by disguising those sites' true content. During cloaking, the search engine spider and the browser are presented with different content for the same Web page. HTTP header information or IP addresses assist in sending the wrong Web pages. Searchers will then access websites that contain information they simply were not seeking, including pornographic sites. Website directories also offer up their share of cloaking techniques.

Many of the larger search engine companies oppose cloaking because it frustrates their users and does not comply with their standards. In the search engine optimization (SEO) industry, cloaking is considered to be a black hat technique that, while used, is frowned on by most legitimate SEO firms and Web publishers. Getting caught cloaking can result in huge penalties from the search engines, including being removed from the index altogether.

[Rachana]

Cloaking : It is a SEO technique in which the content presented to the search engine is different from that of the user's browser. Cloaking is used to improve search engine ranking by confusing the search engine robot about thinking the content on the page and the content that is presented are different. Most search engines dose not support cloaking.
If you are found using this technique to your site, sooner or later your site will be banned and dropped from their index.

[RH-Calvin]

Cloaking is a search engine optimization technique in which the content or information presented to the user is different from that presented to search engine crawlers (i.e. spiders or bots) for better indexing. In other words, the web server is specially programmed to return different content to search engines than it returns to regular users, in an attempt to distort search engine rankings. The Search engine may permanently ban from our index any sites or site authors that engage in cloaking.

[indiancrafts]

its a black hat SEO technique.

[AnjanaSharma]

Cloaking is a spamming search engine optimization technique
Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to users and search engines. Serving up different results based on user agent may cause your site to be perceived as deceptive and removed from the Google index.

[JigsSamra]

Cloaking is a Black Hat Technique which is lying to get a better ranking on search engines. By cloaking your web site, you are deceiving the SE providers and thus anyone who comes to your site from a link provided by those search engines.


Cloaking doesn't really work because of This black hat technique is a short-term strategy, not a long-term solution.

[kindersworld]

Hi,

Cloaking is a search engine optimization (SEO) technique in which the content presented to the search engine spider is different from that presented to the user's browser. This is done by delivering content based on the IP addresses or the User-Agent HTTP header of the user requesting the page.

[cuong24081995]

Cloaking is a technique used to deliver the content on a Web page to a search engine in such a way that different content than what is delivered to a regular human user appears on the search engine. The goal of cloaking is to boost a website's search engine rank on certain keywords.

[amcofab]

Cloaking is a search engine optimization technique in which the content or information presented to the user is different from that presented to search engine crawlers (i.e. spiders or bots) for better indexing.

[clarac12]

Cloaking isa search engine optimization technique in which the content isdifferent from users to search engine crawlers for better indexing.The purpose of cloaking is sometimes to deceive searchengine so they display the page when it would not otherwise be displayed.

[embeddedtraining]

Cloaking is a search engine optimization technique used to deliver the content or information on a Web page to a search engine in such a way that different content than what is delivered to a regular human user appears on the search engine. The objective of cloaking is to boost a website's search engine rank on certain keywords