Excellent forensic article on reverse engineering SE cloaking. EXCELLENT.

Google could spot the strings googlebot and http_user_agent and whack you upside.

I would split the strings somehow with javascript and then glue them back together with string combine. (Forgot the javascript syntax for this, sorry.)

But actually, I wouldn't even bother with user agent cloaking. If you're gonna cloak, do it right. IP. But then, I never cloak, so what do I know.

Wait no... I do cloak sometimes... but it's fumbling in the dark. Strong on the theory, weak on practice, that's me with cloaking

t.

 

How?

They can not read PHP can they, and it is parsed before sent to the browser. How can G possibly see what's going on before the output is sent to them?

 

didn't realize you were talking php. guess you're right.

t.

 

Yea, cloaking (almost by definitiion) is done on the server-side, so the browser/spider never "knows" it is being served something else up unless it checks using another approach ...

 

Hmm interesting article. How many people have actually been banned for SE cloaking?