What is Cloaking?

[nancy07]

Clocking is a considered as a black hat (spamdexing)technique in which the webpage is tailored/ designed in a way that the webpage will appear in different format to the end user and the search bots. The main objective is to manipulate google algorithm and to trick the bots in believing theta the content on the website is of high vale to a specific topic, where as the end user will be presented with a different content.
This approach is mainly use by substandard websites to drive general traffic to their websites. In most cases the user experience with these websites will be much lesser, resulting in high bounce rate.

[Michealdesouza]

Timing is a procedure that the substance offered to the web crawler bug is not quite the same as the offered to client's program and it is a dark cap SEO methods.

[Hostfinch]

Cloaking is a search engine optimization technique in which the content or information presented to the user is different from that presented to search engine crawlers (i.e. spiders or bots) for better indexing. In other words, cloak definition is, the web server is specially programmed to return different content to search engines than it returns to regular users, in an attempt to distort search engine rankings by making a cloak content. Cloaking is an illegal practice and is considered a Black hat SEO. The Search engine may permanently ban from our index any sites or site authors that engage in cloaking.

[CorneliaAlan]

Cloaking is an SEO technique in which the content or information that is presented to user is different from the content that is presented to the crawler to crawl.

[JigsSarma]

Cloaking is one kind of technique of Search Engine Optimization(SEO) which is violation of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines also the web server is specially programmed to return different content to search engines than it returns to regular users,

[Christi Smith]

Cloaking is a situation where content seen by search engine is different from what readers see. This is one kind of Black Hat SEO.

[davidsmith21]

Cloaking is a search engine optimization technique. This technique is used to deliver the content on a webpage to a search engine. This content presented to the search engine spider is different from that presented to the user's browser.