Cloaking is used to mislead search engines to display a page by giving a false description; it is a spamdexing technique. See the Wikipedia entry under 'cloaking'.
its basically a way of redirection form one url to another url. you show one url to the visitor and when they click on the link, they then get transferred to a different domain
Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to users and search engines. It is one type of black hat seo technique.
It is a type of black-hat SEO wherein different pages are created for search engines and users. It is one way of fooling the search engine bots and heavily affects the site on rankings negatively & eventually getting penalised or even banned...