Can any one explain me what is cloaking and what are the different kinds of cloaking. Is this a black hat technique? Search engines agreed this concept or not?
Cloaking is a black hat techniques that experts use in search engine optimization to promote their sites. it's not good effort because as far as i know, content presented to the search engine spider is different from presented to the user's browser. means, try to show other things to user and anything else to search engine crawler. cloaking is used to deceive the search engines so they display the page when it would not otherwise be displayed.so, search engine count it as black hat seo techniques and can ban the website or penalize the website.
Yes, it is blackhat technique to show different page to search engine bots compared to visitors. Of course, it is not acceptable. You can read more about it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaking
I have a different view. Why can't we use cloaking for good things. Showing different information for people from different geographic locations in the same page? I mean cloaking for human beings and not for spiders. Whats your thought?
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Cloaking is a black hat SEO technique where one set of content is shown to human visitors and another set of content is shown to search engines. In cloaking, human visitors are shown the actual web page, but search engines are shown a web page which is full of spammy SEP techniques such as keyword stuffin
Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to users and search engines. This is commonly use in MFA sites/blogs.
Providing the same information to the user and search engines in a different way is called Cloaking. This is to hide the copied content from the search engine.
It is used to display content from a different URL. The cloaked URL will remain intact and will show content from another URL. Its not recomended to use it for SEO.
Cloaking is a black hat SEO technique where one set of content is shown to human visitors and another set of content is shown to search engines. In cloaking, human visitors are shown the actual web page, but search engines are shown a web page which is full of spammy SEP techniques such as keyword stuffing.
One real time example for cloaking. Benz involved in cloaking and got banned in google. Later they got removed the cloaking technique and got reindexed. More details www.mattcutts.com/blog/a-quick-word-about-cloaking
If you're just simply redirecting a url like with tinyurl then that's no biggie. But with cloaking it may create problems with the search engines, especially if done with melicious intent.
Cloaking is black hat because it's just like spamming, you are showing different content between people and SE. Where you will be showing a spam of keywords to SEs.
Cloaking is a black hat SEO tactic. So don't ever do it if you don't to get banned. It is a technique wherein you configure a script to present different contents to SE bots and different to the users.
In cloaking---- URL is different in organic listing and on clicking that URL some other URL will open.