What is Cloaking?

[sajid israq]

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

[jamesborner]

Cloaking is part of black hat SEO to get more traffic in very short-term. It is technique in which the content that present search engine spider is different that present to user browser. It is not a good technique to optimize a website because this site penalize by Google updates whenever new update announce.

[lmpower]

Clocking is the procedure of using some deceptive techniques which allows the user with a different version of the website than that presented to the search engines.

[shiry]

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.

[ketul]

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.

[rajeshhome]

This page describes the term cloaking and lists other pages on the Web where you can find additional information.

[julie]

Avoid cloaking as it is not good for better user experience. It shows two urls with same content.

[usmansarwer]

got great expernice after reading this thread

[bangalorewebguru]

It is unethical black hat SEO technique.The programmer writes a content for search engine purpose, but not for the people.Search engine sees one content, but visitor sees other content. It's violation of Google webmaster guidelines.

[ragulaussie]

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.

[houstontxdogtrainers]

It's Procedure of using some deceptive techniques that allows user with a different version of the website than that presented to the search engines

[cybnetics]

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.

[fix.97]

Also known as stealth, a technique used by some Web sites to deliver one page to a search engine for indexing while serving an entirely different page to everyone else. There are opposing views as to whether or not cloaking is ethical. Opponents see it as a bait-and-switch, where a Web server is scripted to look out for search engines that are spidering in order to create an index of search results. The search engine thinks it is selecting a prime match to its request based on the meta tags that the site administrator has input. However, the search result is misleading because the meta tags do not correspond to what actually exists on the page. Some search engines, such as Lycos, Hotbot and Excite, even ban cloaked Web sites. Proponents of cloaking assert that cloaking is necessary in order to protect the meta data, as only the spider is supplied with the meta tags.

[ennu]

SEO Cloaking is the black hat SEO technique which en ethical method that google not like much its simply showing another and redirect to other is the simply working of the cloaking .

[JeniAnderson]

Cloacking is a kind of black hat SEO, used to present the content on the webpage to the search engine spiders, it deliver a different content that the user browse in search .