what is Cloaking in SEO?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by hoodaki, Jul 28, 2011.

  1. #1
    Dear all,
    I have listen one terms in SEO about Cloaking, I don,t know about it practically, if any one know through practically please help me.
    Please describe me with detail example
     
    hoodaki, Jul 28, 2011 IP
  2. reivand

    reivand Peon

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    *Cloaking generally means presenting a different version of a web page to human visitor and robots from search engine in order to rank well for desired keywords.

    *It's like this for example: human visitor search a product from search engine then he click the number one website that appears on page one, but the final website that he click is not the one describe in SERP before, it was a totally different ones.

    *these practice is manipulating the search engine for SERP and deceive user for traffic by directing them to sites other than the ones they selected before.

    *Example of other cloaking methods:

    - Cloaking type User Agent: delivers a different versions of a website based on User-Agent.
    Example: Users or search engine that using a different browser version is served with a different content from a web page.

    - Cloaking type HTTP Accept Language Header: shows a different version of website based on user browsers language and they will no be able to change the language from browsers option.

    - Cloaking type IP address Cloaking - shows a different content based on IP address.
    Example: one version of a web page with certain IP addresses will be shown on Search engines and the other version will be shown on all other IP addresses.

    Cloaking method is considered as Black Hat SEO. Gaining reputation and link naturally is better in the long term...

    hope this helps..
     
    reivand, Jul 28, 2011 IP
  3. john14317

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    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. When a user is identified as a search engine spider, a server-side script delivers a different version of the web page, one that contains content not present on the visible page, or that is present but not searchable. The purpose of cloaking is sometimes to deceive search engines so they display the page when it would not otherwise be displayed (black hat SEO). However, it can also be a functional (though antiquated) technique for informing search engines of content they would not otherwise be able to locate because it is embedded in non-textual containers such as video or certain Adobe Flash components.
     
    john14317, Jul 29, 2011 IP
  4. monikajoshi

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    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.
     
    monikajoshi, Jul 30, 2011 IP
  5. Alina Tru

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    This means your site have two different vision or results for user and search engine bots. That calling cloaking.
     
    Alina Tru, Aug 3, 2011 IP
  6. nene

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    I want to say, stay away from this kind of technique. Cloaking is trying to fool search engine.
     
    nene, Aug 8, 2011 IP
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    Thanks for posting such a useful post in this forum, it really Very useful.
     
    tadsam12, Aug 8, 2011 IP
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    Cloaking means site have different different page view for search engine bots and real visitor. thanks 
     
    bellsimth, Aug 8, 2011 IP
  9. shinki

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    Thank you for sharing this nice information.
     
    shinki, Aug 8, 2011 IP
  10. Curtis Jackson

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    No doubt impressive comments form everyone well Cloaking is a search engine optimization & in very simple words cloaking is showing users one side of the picture and search engine the other side.
     
    Curtis Jackson, Aug 8, 2011 IP
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    #11
    yeah.......
     
    websrollinfosystems, Aug 10, 2011 IP
  12. andy25i

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    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. :)
     
    andy25i, Aug 11, 2011 IP
  13. rajmishra

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    Clocking is the back hat seo technique where people create the different view of the page for both search engine and user.this is good to get rank but it will ruin your website, i mean to say your website will be penalized if you will use this technique
     
    rajmishra, Aug 13, 2011 IP
  14. jhonhardy

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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
     
    jhonhardy, Aug 14, 2011 IP
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    Clocking SEO is an artificial method of boosting website rankings. Usually these false pages are loaded with keyword rich content and search engine optimization designed to boost the search results ranking of the web page.
     
    livtar, Aug 16, 2011 IP
  16. ROOFIS

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    <html>
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
    </head>
    
    <body>
    <noscript>Haha Google-bot your not being redirected from this bridging page! :)~ </noscript>
    
    <script type="text/javascript"> setTimeout('Redirect()',3000); function Redirect() { location.href = 'http://www.example.com'; } </script>
    </body>
    </html>
    Code (markup):
    :rolleyes: :cool:

    These old 301 bridging page scripts where the go back in the early 2000's, bots naturally don't support java so the page stay's in the serp's whilst the surfer gets redirected to popup's or some sort of affiliated 'get paid to sign up page' routine.
    google got whiff of this back in the hay day and now detect and actively ban sites engaged in this practice.

    Arrr... them good old day's are surely missed~!! :p






    ROOFIS
     
    ROOFIS, Aug 17, 2011 IP
  17. deltagci

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    Clocking is a part of Black hat techniques, where you're showing one thing to visitor's and another thing to search engine bot with in same page.
     
    deltagci, Aug 17, 2011 IP
  18. Sonamseo

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    Cloaking is a Black Hat SEO . in this just submit single page in Search engine and different pages will be viewed to different people.
    in this we make a DOORWAY page that will submit in Search engine.
     
    Sonamseo, Aug 17, 2011 IP
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    My dear friend Cloaking is considered a black hat form of SEO designed to trick search engine crawlers into boosting a web page's search results ranking
     
    girish sharma, Aug 17, 2011 IP
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    What are some examples of sites that use this black hat technique of SEO? What do search engines such as Google do to combat this technique? Seems that cloaking must be easy to detect somehow because Google and other engines do a pretty good job of ranking sites with accurate content (mostly).
     
    skcin7, Aug 17, 2011 IP