Cloaking...

[AndrewBert]

What is cloaking ?

[mikey45]

The term cloaking, considered a form of spam by search engines, is the technique of hiding true page content from either a human or robot visitor. Cloaking is considered an unacceptable practice by all of the major search engines and can be cause for banning.

[webhostors]

What cloaking do you mean? Email cloaking or SEO Cloaking? If then, its about limiting the number of mails sent in an hour. If SEO, check the above.

[seecol]

Cloaking is simply a technique in which, on a same url/address,search engine spider is served with a different version of web page as compared to the one which is served to the user. It is a Blackhat-SEO technique and is used to fool search engine. Geeks do this to gain unnatural rankings for irrelevant keywords.

It is done by differentiating between user agents basing on the IP address or by HTTP header. Basically if it is determined that the user-agent is a search engine bot then it will be taken to a page which is quite relevant to the search query but if the user-agent is other than the bot then any other page of webmaster?s choice will be served. The page which a real user visited was actually not what he wanted. Search engine was unable to index the real content and based his assessment on only that portion which was designed for search engines, instead of the one which is for the user.Google strictly penalizes this technique.

[vino]

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.

In cloaking, the search engine and the user are literally not on the same page. Therefore, both the user and the search engine are being deceived.

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.

[parkbogumm830]

SEO 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.

[Cargocloud]

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. ... You might have understood now that cloaking is an illegal practice and is considered a Blackhat SEO.

[Jbcookwares]

Cloacking is a one of the Black hat SEO techniques to improve website in the short term. If You click the hyper link, it will go to some other link.

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[Rachana]

Cloaking : It is a SEO technique in which the content presented to the search engine is different from that presented to 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.

[andreausa]

Cloak is, theweb server is specially programmed to return different content to searchengines than it returns to regular users, in an attempt to distort searchengine rankings by making a cloak content. You might have understood nowthat cloaking is an illegal practice and is considered a Black hat SEO. TheSearch engine may permanently ban from our index any sites or site authors thatengage in cloaking.

[roycpo]

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.

[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.

[gurunath]

Cloaking is a search engine optimization 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

[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.