What is Cloaking ?

[ccole]

Cloaking is a black hat SEO technique which hides the real content of the webpage to the search engines' bots like Googlebot. The real content is only shown to the visitors of the website.

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 what it really is.

[pennjt55]

Clocking is black hat and it is use to less attention the crawler. Searcher see different content while crawler crawl on different content.

[rajdeep01]

Cloaking is a SEO (Search Engine Optimization) technique. Basically it's about presenting the crawler of search engines a different website than normal users. Clocking is showing the search engine one thing and your visitors another.

[mariejames]

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. Which is purely black hat technique...

[xuled]

I think you already have your answer.

[WooServers]

Cloaking is a SEO tactics in which the content presented to the search engine spider is different from that presented to the user's web browser. This is done by delivering content based on the IP addresses or the User-Agent HTTP header of the user requesting the page.

[stevex]

Cloaking is a technique used to deliver the content on a Web page to a search engines in such a way that different content than what is delivered to a regular human user appears on the search engine. The goal of cloaking is to boost a website's search engine rank on certain keywords.
Cloaking can be used to try and influence search engine ranking, although the search engines typically frown on any such attempts, and the penalty for detection can be removal from their index.

[Blaine]

Cloaking is a process of presenting different content or URLs to human users and search engines. It is based on the IP addresses or the User-Agent HTTP header of the user requesting the page. It is a black hat seo technique which is mainly used for spamdexing. It provides two different meaning, one for the search engine spider and other for the web users. This is mainly used to deceive search engine for getting higher rank.

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