What is Cloaking ?

[Minerva]

Hi All,
I heared about Cloaking in seo but i do not know that what is cloaking exactly please let me know?

[sandrah]

cloaking is a methods when you present a crawler a bit different content than you present to the visitors.

[cliffordstoll]

nice information...

[forgetmeyes]

Yes, for example if you are running a storefront site, you do not like search engines to see/index your product url with session data in the query string which is what your visitors will see. So you can use cloaking to show the search engine bots the base url while your users still see the full url with session data.

[FutureLinks]

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 IP address or User-Agent HTTP header of the user requests the page.

[jacoblin]

Also known as stealth, 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. There are opposing views as to whether or not cloaking is ethical. Opponents see it as a bait-and-switch, where a Web server is scripted to look out for search engines that are spidering in order to create an index of search results. The search engine thinks it is selecting a prime match to its request based on the meta tags that the site administrator has input. However, the search result is misleading because the meta tags do not correspond to what actually exists on the page. Some search engines, such as Lycos, Hotbot and Excite, even ban cloaked Web sites. Proponents of cloaking assert that cloaking is necessary in order to protect the meta data, as only the spider is supplied with the meta tags.



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[stevejustine]

Cloaking means serving different page to search engine and different page to users.


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[veronicaZora]

Cloaking usually implies to existing distinct version of web page contents from of search engines to search robots and human visitors based on their browser's user agent or IP address. It's a inaccurate method used to cheat search engines in order to rank well for desired keywords.

[remmi]

Cloaking is a black hat technique which is unethical that presents a webpage to the search engine is different from the webpage presented to users browser.

[webcreations]

Cloaking is the process of providing the search engine with one
set of web coding usually highly optimized while the Internet
visitor receives a friendlier, more appealing web page.Cloaking is
simply a technique in which, on a same URL/address, search engine
spider is served with a different version of web page as compared
to the one which is served to the user. It is a Black-hat SEO
technique and is used to fool search engine. Geeks do this to gain
unnatural rankings for irrelevant keywords.