What is cloaking in SEO?

Hi please tell what is cloaking related to SEO?

 

Its a black hat SEO technique using which a website presents two different versions of content, one to the user and another one to the search engine.

 

its a Black hat SEO...avoid this...

 

Cloaking is the black hat SEO technique that refers to serving one page to one set of visitors and another to the search engines.

 

Cloaking is a black hat SEO technique used to present different content to search engines and different to the users. Its a deceptive method used to cheat search engines in order to rank well for desired keywords.

Cloaking is done by showing content based on the request IP address or the User-Agent HTTP header of the user. A user identified as search engine is shown a specifically prepared and optimized website with only purpose to rank well for desired keywords. If a user is not a search engine they are presented with the “real” websites content.

 

Nice info!

 

I have developed a plugin for wordpress to cloak links, if you are interested you can take a look at the screens : xev.com/index.php?cat=english

 

Thanks for all the information provided.

 

This is from a blog I found in Google.

 

Google will backed cloaked site if they catch you. I wont suggest it.

 

You can cloak something, not everything without the risk of getting blacklisted, be smart.

 

nice for share..is it can be builded by wp tweak..?

 

I don't know, never heard of this plugin.

 

Used to be more popular before search got intelligent, now it seems to have spun off into spamdexing and doorway pages

 

cloacking is blackhat seo technique through which you can run two version of your site one for userd and one for search engines
dont use it you got banned if google knows about it

 

You are provide such a useful information. Keep it up.

 

Google block site which ha cloaking.cloaking means search engine see one thing and visitors see another thing of your site. its harmful for your site.

 

Cloaking is a black hat SEO technique used to present different content to search engines and different to the users. Its a deceptive method used to cheat search engines in order to rank well for desired keywords.

 

Cloaking consider as black hat seo technique in SEO. In the cloaking both search engion's and user's behavior different, means search engines got or crawled something and its appear to user different.

 

Cloaking means Black hat SEO technique which is not good and we have to avoid this method. We will see a different content in user browser and google search engines which is not good for business purposes.