What do you mean by Cloaking?

[James Sara]

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.

[Intuz]

Clocking is a blackhat SEO technique to deceive search engine crawlers by presenting different content to the search engine than that which is presented to a user. Clocking is a violation of ethical internet practices, and there are consequences for doing it.

[bidaddy]

It's Black hat technique which forbiden by Google

[daikaads]

Cloaking is the process of showing the two different content to the users and search engines. It is one of the Black Hat SEO techniques which is used to cheat the search engines using the content.

[officeshub]

Clocking is one of the Black hat SEO techniques using which we can provide different content for the user and the Googlebots.

[aegisinfoways]

Cloaking is a seo (SEO) technique in which the content presented to the online search engine spider is different from that shown to the user's browser.

[vino]

Cloaking refers to a search engine optimization, or SEO, method used by webmasters to deceive search engine crawlers by presenting different content to the search engine than that which is presented to a user. Search engines such as Google’s consider this a violation of ethical internet practices, and there are consequences for doing it. Current digital marketing strategies must include ways to avoid cloaking, and SEO experts warn against it. When Googlebot, Google’s web-crawling device (that essentially ‘crawls’ the web and discovers new and updated pages to be added to Google’s index) finds cloaking, it considers it unethical and there are consequences. Therefore, it is necessary to be able to recognize cloaking and avoid it.


Cloaking occurs by delivering content based on IP addresses or the User-Agent HTTP header of the user who is requesting a certain page. When a user is determined to be a web crawler, or ‘spider,’ a server side script will deliver a different version of the page than it delivers to other users. This version will contain content that does not appear on the page that is visible to users. Webmasters who practice cloaking typically do it to fool a search engine so that it will display the page that would not otherwise be displayed. Google’s algorithms can pick up cloaking, and it can be dealt with through severe consequences to those who practice it. Google may remove a site that contains cloaking entirely from its index. Cloaking is a form of a doorway page, which is a web page created for spamdexing. Spamdexing, or search engine spamming, is done solely for the purpose of manipulating a search engine. Doorway pages often are also referred to as portal pages, jump pages, or gateway pages.

[beckyturner]

Cloaking is Black Hat Techniques. In this techniques, the website content is different from what presented to Google Bot.

[swikriti.sharma09]

Cloaking is a black hat SEO technique in which search engine is presented one version of a webpage while the user is shown the other version

Cloaking is not at all recommended as it is a black hat technique which may lead to penalty and your website's ranking might suffer.

[Shalini001]

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.

[rickysmith]

Hiding is a seo (SEO) technique in which the material shown to the online look for motor spider is different from that shown to a person's browser. This is done by delivering material based on the IP addresses or the User-Agent HTTP header of the customer requesting the page.

[SaraWilliams]

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.

[EdSim]

But how does the actual process happen? do you post a link with a different title or what?

[jeffscott]

Cloaking also uses its deceiving actions to rank the preferred page in which has not seen by the users but only with the search engines.

[jeffjohnson]

Cloaking is a spam technique and is described as the practice of sending different content toa search engine than to regular visitors of a web site. Redirection is the outcome of cloaking and is used to send users automatically toanother URL after loading the current URL. Google has its own definition of cloaking and that definition of cloaking is “the web server is programmed to return differentcontent to Google than it returns to regular users, usually in an attempt to distort search enginerankings.”