what is cloaking

i need to know how to do cloaking ?can anyone help me out.i am not going to use it on my page because spiders think its illegal but still i need to know how it is done

 

You might start by reading What is cloaking?

 

how to implement it

 

In its simplest form:

$useragent = getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT");.
if($useragent=="googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"){
echo"content for google";
}
else
{
echo"real content";
}

PHP:

Although I just posted details on how to fake the user agent so its not reliable.

 

Oops duplicate post, sorry. (IE7 is playing up).

 

Make Google see one thing and the visitors another thing!!!!!

Script example...

spam.cgi

#!/usr/bin/perl

   print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
if ($ENV{'HTTP_USER_AGENT'} =~ /googlebot/) {
print <<EOM;

What Google sees! This is where to enter the spam, cloaking, keyword stuffing....

EOM
}

else {
print <<EOM;

What you see!

EOM
   exit;
}

Code (perl):

Case in point....

http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cach....ws/+v7ndotcom+elursrebmem&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6

I'm seeing how long it takes to be banned from google!!!! It's my highest ranking site in the contest. #6 out of 4,100,000 in some datacenters!!!

Is this ethical??!!

 

you know you all are spammers
A decent webmaster like me would say:

 

I don't know what is cloaking.

All I know is that those codes up there just make Google see something special, the high quallity stuff!!

BTW, I eat a can of SPAM a week!!! It's yummy!!!!

 

I didn't, but I do now...

/Dio goes off on and engages in some frenzied activity on certain of his pages...

 

Cloaking is so easy to detect I can't really believe it still works. I suppose in the short term it might but no way in the long term once google detects it.

 

Lol man .. I just saw that cloaked page.

Are you like crazy ?

 

i thought cloaking was illegal...................

 

LOL... Have you ever heard someone go to jail for it ?

It's not illegal man. It's just againts Google's TOS, and plain unethical.

 

That's like saying it's illegal to make a kid eat something he doesn't like!!!

*Still waiting for the FBI to come bust me for cloaking and keyword stuffing!!!*

John who's runing the contest, doesn't think the site should be banned!!!!!

Google themselves say no cloaking though being a tiny page, just one URL, I'm guessing they wont manually bother with it!!! It'll have to be the Googlebot or some listing thing they look for that'll have to ban the site, or crashbomb it down to page 1337.

 

oh..i guess the word 'illegal' has a strong implication then. sorry, my bad. i meant it in a 'break the rules of ethics'. like BH SEO.

 

That yes

 

One person that makes around $100,000 a month from the internet through affiliate marketing, thinks it's OK to cloak!!!! (SitePoint thread, on the Search engine board, Part 1.)