What is Cloaking in SEO?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by martinluther, Dec 17, 2010.

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    Hi Everyone,

    I want to know about cloaking clear explanation. I was confused about this method. can anyone tell me about this concept? what is cloaking? what is the use in seo point of view?
     
    martinluther, Dec 17, 2010 IP
  2. rohnsmith

    rohnsmith Active Member

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    It is the way to cheat users and search engine. these techniques considered as black hat and not working efficiently if you do not have much technical knowledge then avoid it . Only follow deal guide line..
     
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    Cloaking generally means to present different version of web page contents from of search engines to search robots and human visitors based on their browser's user agent or IP address. It's a deceptive method used to cheat search engines in order to rank well for desired keywords.
     
    bhupi_arora, Dec 17, 2010 IP
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    Deception is, unfortunately, part of the SEM world. Cloaking is one such SEM tool, which identifies a visit to the Web page by a search engine spider, rather than a user and presents content other than what the user would have seen on the screen. This tactic may help fool search engines but often leads to penalties.
     
    seorupesh, Dec 18, 2010 IP
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    Cloaking is just to hide your affiliate links. It is very simple. Just use some plugin if you use wordpress as cms.
     
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    No its not, it is what bhupi_arora suggested. Typically, the cloaked page is keyword stuffed which is displayed to the search engine bots to rank better, which is different to human visitors.
     
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    Website cloaking is nothing but showing different pages to Google bot and the user, It is a black hat SEO technique Google will easily find it and remove the site.So don't try this kind of things.
     
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    Cloaking SEO providing the search engine one set of data while the human visitor sees another set of data this used to be a big thig a few years ago however links as opposed to content are what really matters. Also cloaking what they call blackhat and I would'nt recommend this technique
     
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    cloaking is a technique of black hat seo, where the content of the website gets changed depending upon the surfer's identity. This should be avoided for long term results of seo..
     
    ponsankari, Dec 19, 2010 IP
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    According to me that's not a right way for seo if you dont' have all knowledge about it tha never try it..
     
    niravsoni, Dec 20, 2010 IP
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    Yes you are right if we do not know about SEO we must away from it otherwise we can be do black hat and got ban in Google.
     
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    Cloaking is black hat techniques which is harmful if you use for your website..so you should not know about Cloaking and also not use if know..
     
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    hiii
    yes i agery with neerajseo

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    Cloaking is black hat techniques which is harmful if you use for your website..so you should not know about Cloaking and also not use if know..
     
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    Briefly, cloaking is the process of providing the search engine with one set of web coding (usually highly optimized) while the Internet visitor receives a friendlier, more appealing web page.
     
    BeeLee, Dec 21, 2010 IP