Thread: What is Cloaking ?

Serving up different results based on user agent may cause your site to be perceived as deceptive and removed from the Google index.

User Agent is just one method for cloacking, advanced users use IP Cloacking, harder to detect by Google. You need a big DB of IPs from spiders which is a lot more reliable than User Agent Cloacking

Cloaking is the technique of returning different pages to search engines than to people. When a person requests the page of a particular URL from the website, the site's normal page is returned, but when a search engine spider makes the same request, a special page that has been created for the engine is returned, and the normal page for the URL is hidden from the engine - it is cloaked.

The usual purposes of cloaking are to hide the HTML code of high ranking pages from people, so that it can't be stolen, and to provide search engine spiders with highly optimized pages that wouldn't look particularly good in browsers.

Pretty cool post. Thanks for the valuable information.

Nice information and thanks for sharing such techniques buddy.

Originally Posted by mit

Nice piece of information you gathered here pal.

Cloaking is a black hat search engine optimization (SEO) technique in which the content presented to the search engine spider is different to 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. The purpose of cloaking is to deceive search engines so they display the page when it would not otherwise be displayed.

you got it right there mit! this more simple meaning of cloaking. and this method is not advisable. this must not be encourage to do by the webmasters because it will result to a ban or penalize because the page that was submited to search engine is a spam page and it was intended to manipulate the rankings in search engines.

nice information,
thanks for sharing

thanks