what is clocking

Discussion in 'Google' started by Allthebest, Apr 26, 2010.

  1. #1
    what is clocking . how much it is affecting to improve my ranking instantly.
     
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  2. banana8

    banana8 Active Member

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    Never heard about clocking ...
     
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    Are you reffering to cloaking?
     
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    Yes, maybe cloaking is in question.
    Basically, it's showing different content based on whether a search engine bot or normal user is visiting the page, thus aiming to game and trick the search engines with crafted content.
    Really bad option for long-term strategy, typical black-hat SEO technique.
     
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    georgenbowser Well-Known Member

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    Clocking is SPAM Tactics it's technique of serving a different page to a search engine spider than what a human visitor sees. This technique is abused by spammers for keyword stuffing. Cloaking is a violation of the Terms Of Service of most search engines and could be grounds for banning.
     
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    It is cloaking my friend...

    Cloaking: is a seo technique; in which a website is intelligent enough to identify the user-agent that is requesting a page. If the user-agent is a search engine then the website is well equipped to provide the web page that is created only for search engine. And if it is not search engine, then it will provide a regular page.

    my learning says, cloaking can be a legitimate technique by not allowing the optimized pages to be collected automatically. This technique definitely makes search engine to show their displeasure by banning those sites. This technique is definitely a black hat technique as per wikipedia, google and others.
     
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    Do you mean cloaking? Generally speaking, cloaking is delivering different pages to different visitors or bot. It's giving the human visitors a normal looking page, but giving bots a keyword stuffed page.
     
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    it's clocking or cloaking ??

    If it's cloaking then it comes in black hat seo technique.
    Means in this technique different content is shown to search engines and different to the users
     
    saching1, Apr 26, 2010 IP