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What is cloaking?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by ellenwillss, Sep 9, 2010.

  1. #1
    Hi all....


    What is meant by the term "cloaking" and what role does it play in SEO activities?
     
    ellenwillss, Sep 9, 2010 IP
  2. ehuq

    ehuq Well-Known Member

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    Cloacking means hiding your original URL with another URL which will redirect visitors to your original page. Normally a long URL is cloaked with short URL.


    There is no SEO benefit at all.

    You can hide your affiliate URL with cloaking because people aren't willing to visit affiliate links.
     
    ehuq, Sep 9, 2010 IP
  3. Brad Callen

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    Usually cloaking refers to black hat SEO,

    Now, I'm sure we can think of some perfectly legit cases where cloaking is needed to serve different content for a good reason!
     
    Brad Callen, Sep 9, 2010 IP
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    Cloaking is a black hat technique where the pages viewed by search engines are different from users view.
     
    Sudhaa, Sep 9, 2010 IP
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    the pages viewed by search engine and users are different..its is not preffered by any search engine as it is a kind of black hat method for seo purposes... :)
     
    discountlens, Sep 9, 2010 IP
  6. HungryMinds

    HungryMinds Active Member

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    He's Right, For This Method We Check Search Engines IP's & Robots Or Crawlers Using Server Side Scripts Like PHP, ASP etc etc. That If Our Site Is Viewing By These IP's Or Robot's Then Show Content For Google Like Just Bunch Of Keywords & Optimized Everything, Otherwise Show Content For User Like Full Hip Hop. And It's Totally Black Hat, In Case If Search Engines Tracks Your "Cloacking" To Another IP, Then U'll Go Penalize :S Or Something BAD Response By Search Engine. So Now! Do U Wanna Use? :D
     
    HungryMinds, Sep 10, 2010 IP
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    Cloaking is a black hat SEO technique.
     
    diyakapoor, Sep 10, 2010 IP
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    ibanezgrx1 Well-Known Member

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    It has no SEO benifit.
     
    ibanezgrx1, Sep 10, 2010 IP
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    It is the black hat SEO technique in which pages are modified in such way that user and search engine treating pages differently..
     
    3glogic, Sep 10, 2010 IP
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    Thanks for given me for this opportunity to give you some information and suggestion about cloaking.............
    I am very glad to give you some of the best important information from my side....
    According to Google cloaking is a website that returns altered webpages to search engines crawling the site. In other words a human reading the site would see different content or information than the Googlebot or other search engine robot reading the site. Most of the time, cloaking is implemented in order to improve search engine ranking by misleading the search engine robot into thinking the content on the page is different than it really is...:)
     
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    I'll tell you what i read about cloaking. In SEO there is Black Hat SEO and White Hat SEO, If you want to be banned by the search engines then do Black Hat SEO. Cloaking is doing Black Hat SEO, you do cloaking by telling for example google that you have a page but at the time someone clicks on that page, the page you told google to look for, redirects to a different page, normally a page with a lower pr than the first one. That in a few words is cloaking. I hope it helps!
     
    spanishmex, Sep 10, 2010 IP
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    Yes i too agree to your point.
    Cloaking is totally considered as Black hat SEO in the eyes of Google.
     
    jacuzzi, Sep 10, 2010 IP
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    Cloaking is hiding your keywords of blending it on your website template.
     
    manny07, Sep 10, 2010 IP
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    yes Cloaking is a black hat SEO technique.
     
    girjeshSEO, Oct 1, 2010 IP
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    cloaking has a number of meanings. You can, for example, cloak your links (to stop people stealing your commissions). That would hardly be 'black hat'.
     
    contentboss, Oct 1, 2010 IP