What is cloaking

[ghanistha]

Cloaking is a black hat seo technique which shows or present different webpage to both the google crawlers and for users.

 

[Sharier]

Cloaking is a technique used by some Web sites to deliver one page to a search engine for indexing while serving an entirely different page to everyone else.

 

[xapuc]

You guys should know that cloaking has more than one meaning. Research.

 

[thomasbell]

Cloaking is a strategy used by some Web sites to produce one web page to search engines optimization for listing while offering an entirely different web page to everyone else.

 

[ykgform]

Clocking is black hat traffic it's bad for site

 

[sneha]

Cloaking is a technique which shows different webpage of a website, one for google crawlers and other for users.

 

[RezwanKabir]

Cloaking is a search engine optimization (SEO) technique in which the content presented to the search engine spider is different from that presented to the user's browser. This is done by delivering content based on the IP addresses or the User-Agent HTTP header of the user requesting the page. When a user is identified as a search engine spider, a server-side script delivers a different version of the web page, one that contains content not present on the visible page, or that is present but not searchable. The purpose of cloaking is sometimes to deceive search engines so they display the page when it would not otherwise be displayed (black hat SEO). However, it can also be a functional (though antiquated) technique for informing search engines of content they would not otherwise be able to locate because it is embedded in non-textual containers such as video or certain Adobe Flash components.

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