what is clocking

can somebody tell me about what is clocking??

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaking - you know there are search engines which can help with information too

 

Clocking Means You Generate One Page And This Page Difrrent To User and Different Google Crawler.So your 1 page Show Different show To User And Crawler.This Is Call Clocking.This Is Not Good Strategy For SEO.

 

Cloaking is a spamming search engine optimization method that some webmasters use to look the content of their websites to the search engine spider so they could rank higher for their keywords, and they look amazing else to the visitors.

 

HI
Its cloaking is a black hat technique, in which content can be present differently to user and the search engine,.

 

which the content presented to the search engine spider is different from that presented to the user's browser.

 

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).

 

According to Google cloaking is "a website that returns altered webpages to search engines crawling the site." In other words, a human reading the site would see different content or information than the Googlebot or other search engine robot reading the site. Most of the time, cloaking is implemented in order to improve search engine ranking by misleading the search engine robot into thinking the content on the page is different than it really is.

 

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.

 

thanks to all. it's really helpful information.....

 

Cloaking may be defined as fetching one type of page to crawler and different version of the same page to normal users with an intention of exploring more benefits than such an act may be called as a Cloaking. It is considered as a black hat Seo technique.

 

I think the thread starter meant to say was 'cloaking, which is a black hat SEO technique.

 

Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to users and search engines. Serving up different results based on user-agent may cause your site to be perceived as deceptive and removed from the Google index.
Some examples of cloaking include:

• Serving a page of HTML text to search engines, while showing a page of images or Flash to users.
• Serving different content to search engines than to users.

If your site contains elements that aren't crawlable by search engines (such as rich media files other than Flash, JavaScript, or images), you shouldn't provide cloaked content to search engines. Rather, you should consider visitors to your site who are unable to view these elements as well. For instance:

• Provide alt text that describes images for visitors with screen readers or images turned off in their browsers.
• Provide the textual contents of JavaScript in a noscript tag.

Ensure that you provide the same content in both elements (for instance, provide the same text in the JavaScript as in the noscript tag). Including substantially different content in the alternate element may cause Google to take action on the site.

 

Cloaking- the Intention is to show one content to surfers and other content to search engines. Cloaking is a new spamming seo technique that some webmasters use to demonstrate the content of their sites to google spider so they could achieve greater rankings for their keywords, and they show something else to the visitors.

 

Even when the webmaster create a webpage it specially take that page for indexing in search engine, and then the actual service pages which has to be seen by people are maintained differently, this also comes under clocking. People also comment that ist one of the black hat Search Engine Optimization technique. What I have heard that it is something matching the color of links with background color of that particular webpage.

 

Through programming you are showing other content to search engines and another content to user. This is knows as clocking