What is the purpose of cloaking?

[sapnajha]

What is the purpose of cloaking?

[24x7servermanag]

This technique is part of blackhat SEO. One should not use it. When user search for any site then web browser displays the information of correct website but when you actually visit that information that time it redirects you to different site.

It happens many time that we search for some different site and you are redirected to pornographic site, it is nothing but cloaking. Purpose of it is to increases the visitors for the site and site rank get increases.

[alpa]

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.

[sadianisar]

Cloaking is a Black Hat SEO technique in which content is presented differently to users and web crawlers. It is not a recommended technique.

[deepakrajput]

Cloaking is best techniques to present website content in different form for indexing.

[drnagwaniseo]

The purpose of cloaking is here and there to mislead web indexes so they show the page when it would not generally be shown (dark cap SEO).

[yuvashri]

Cloaking is a website improvement system in which the substance or data introduced to the client is not quite the same as that displayed to web index crawlers (i.e. creepy crawlies or bots) for better ordering.

[mobilepriceshop]

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. ... The purpose of cloaking is sometimes to deceive search engines so they display the page when it would not otherwise be displayed (black hat SEO).

[jaysh4922]

Cloaking is a procedure used by some Web sites to carry one page to a search engine for indexing while serving a totally different page to everyone else.

[najishahmed]

agree with you all

[RH-Calvin]

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, 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. The Search engine may permanently ban from our index any sites or site authors that engage in cloaking.

[Hitekschool]

Shrouding is a site improvement procedure in which the substance or data exhibited to the client is not quite the same as that introduced to internet searcher crawlers (i.e. arachnids or bots) for better ordering.

[yellowsapphire]

Get more traffic is the main purpose to use cloaking

[leena13]

It is one of the black hat seo technique.

[Nisha.shiv]

cloaking is a black hat SEO technique, where the content will be present different for web crawlers and the users.