Has anyone tried Cloaking before?

Hi guys

I'm trying to increase the traffic to my sites and i was told to try cloaking.
Based on my researched i have discoverd that it is unethical and you can even get banned from search engines but at the same time you can achieve amazing results in short periods of time.

Has anyone done this in the past?

 

*puts hand up*

Guilty your honor.. But it was all in the name of science.

 

cloaking links doesnt directly affect your SERPs rankings...kind of a weird question

 

It's part of spam so don't do it

 

I will suggest, Don't go for clocking..it will remove you from Search Engines permanantly.

 

I hope you got from above answers given by members...

Well cloacking is one of the strong black hat tactics, and you must not follow any black hat tactics to get listed on top of serp's...

 

Haven't tried it before, and I have no intentions of doing it in the future..
I still prefer white hat..

 

I wasn't thinking of cloaking my main site but cloaking small referral sites instead. I have been told that google cannot ban a site that has cloaked sites linking to it.

What are your thoughts on this?