What do you mean by Cloaking?

[davidsmith21]

What do you mean by Cloaking?

Cloaking is a Black Hat SEO technique in which one version of a webpage is shown to the user whereas another version is shown to the crawler.

Cloaking is not recommeded as it is a black hat technique and your website might be penalized for the same. So never ever indulge into Cloaking as you may have to suffer if Google penalizes your website.

[raianju]

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 the IP addresses or the User-Agent HTTP header of the user requesting the page.