What is Cloaking in SEO?

[britnilinda]

Hello guys
I'm drawing experts webmaster who can explain in details about cloaking. What is Cloaking actually? Why do I use it? Do I should use it or not explain on behalf of your answer.

 

[ayesha123]

clocking means hidden malicious

 

[soundservicecouk]

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[kissesjones]

It is an unethical black hat SEO technique. A specific website has a content for search engine purpose, but not for the people. Consequently, the search engine sees one content, but visitor sees other content. It's violation of Google webmaster guidelines.

 

[GarryJP]

It is not advisable to use that technique, because it is not ethical. There are two types of content created with that techniques, one is shown for search engine and the other one is for visitors.

 

[FindersUK]

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.

 

[aronmatt3]

Cloaking is a technique of misguiding Google bot by showing showing some different page with highly optimized content on the URL, which is not useful for customers and when customer visits that page, then content will be different than that ranked page.

 

[rahulsingh]

Clocking is a technique in the content presented to the SE crawler is different from what it is presented to the user .

 

[DedicatedServer4You]

Showing a search engine spider or bot one version of a Web page and a different version to the end user. Several search engines have explicit rules against unapproved cloaking. Those violating these guidelines may find their pages penalized or banned from earch engines

 

[annakoch]

Cloaking is hiding the data in a webpage or website from search engine bot.it is form of the doorway page technique.Is generally a black hat SEO technique where a page gets re-directed to other. Cloaking is the process of giving search engine a set of web page, while the internet customer gets a luring web page.

 

[contentnbacklink]

Well, clocking is a special technique used by the webmasters to show a unique set of keywords to the web spiders, so that it helps increasing the ranking positions, whereas the common visitors are shown something else.

 

[Vijay Patel]

I think cloaking means hidden malicious

 

[saleoid]

Clocking is a method that the content is presented to the search engine is different for the users.

It is a black hat SEO.

 

[ChristinaCa]

A website that uses Cloaking recognizes search engine spiders by their IP address. It returns web pages to search engine spiders that are different from the web pages that web surfers see.

 

[John Marshal]

Clocking is a Black Hat technique in SEO, where webmasters try to manipulate Search engines by creating invisible pages with targeted keywords, which leads to good keyword ranking. But general we need to avoid those kinds of things for better results.

 

[robertmilkas]

cloaking is something like making 2 separate pages for 1 url, 1st one would be for the visitors and second one would be for the search engines robots, the page which is for the robots is full of links it comes under blackhet SEO.

 

[Alexhudson]

Cloaking is a black hat technique in which content shown to search engines isn't shown to the general audience. I have checked my website design service cloaking through cloaking checker.

 

[altonroot]

Cloaking was working in the era of keyword based algorithm. If a keywords appears more time in a page then that page ranks well for that keyword. Now its time of Panda and Hummingbird algorithm where Google improving their algorithm to read every query as a human and return intelligent search results. So cloaking is now gone.

In-fact you can use cloaking like technique in better way if you have different mobile website. Identify the user agent and return page according to that.

 

[Dansmiths]

Cloaking is a black hat method of SEO. When a website have two special example for search engines and visitors then it is called cloaking.

 

[saleoid]

Cloaking is a search engine optimization technique in which content present to the search engine is different from the content displayed to users. It is a black hat SEO and an unethical way of doing SEO. You should not follow this technique as Google can give your penalty for doing this activity or your website can be considered as spam.