Difference between cloaking and indexing

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by ashish.bhatnagar, Dec 6, 2011.

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    Kindly tell me that what is the meaning of cloaking and what is the difference between cloaking and indexing.
     
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    digitalwebman06 Active Member

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    Cloaking is a black hat method. it refers to some thing that tells the SE robot but actually its different.
    Indexing refers to the visibility of your website in search engine.
     
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    Cloaking is one of the black hats technique.Indexing is one of the white hats techniques.

    Thank You.
     
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    sisatel Active Member

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    Clocking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to users and search engines.

    Search engine indexing collects, parses, and stores data to facilitate fast and accurate information retrieval.
     
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    The SQL Machine Details source Engine instantly retains spiders whenever place, bring up to date, or get rid of businesses are made to the actual data. Over time these variations can cause the details in the catalog to become existing in the repository (fragmented). Fragmentation prevails when spiders have websites in which the sensible getting, based on the key value, does not coordinate the physical getting inside the computer data file. To a great extent fragmented spiders can lower problem efficiency and cause your application to reply gradually. For much more information, see this Enthusiasm Web site.

    You can solution catalog fragmentation by either reorganizing an catalog or by fixing an catalog. For portioned spiders designed on a partition structure, you can use either of these methods on a complete catalog or on a single partition of an catalog.
     
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    Cloaking is a bad method to index website page.
     
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    hi
    information of the conetent after the crawling is indexing while, clocking is representation on the content different to user and to search engine .
     
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    In my opinion, cloaking is a black hat SEO method in which the content obtainable to the search engine spider is different to that presented to the user's browser.And i prefer to think of indexing as a specialized form of writing that is granted copyright protection. It is a creative work that takes a special talent.
     
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    Both are different Cloaking is Black Hat SEO technique and Indexing is the white hat technique which refers to the visibility of your website in search engine.
     
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    Cloaking is when you "hide" the real URL by making the URL appear to be a harmless link that will not refer the user to a website that will sell it something. Indexing on the other hand is when search engine bots crawl your site, get an image of it and store that image in their servers.

    Hope that helps. Have a good dat!
     
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    Cloaking is sometimes considered a black hat SEO method to let the dipalyed page to open differently for serach engines and differently in user's browsers.It is sometimes considered a method similar to doorway pages. While indexing is a method through which search engines crawl your work or either what ever you submit to the web,it crawls.
     
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    Thanks for posting :D
     
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    Indexing is part of search engine process of saving the data of a certain page.

    Cloaking is a black hat technique of hiding something on your page (could be a code or some hidden kw stuffing) to manipulate search results. Basically a search engine robot see different version of your page, than the actual content seen by users
     
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    Cloaking means to present different versions of the web page contents to search engines and human visitors. Indexing means the version of the webpage that the search engines keep in their DB.
     
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