What is Cloaking?

[CorneliaAlan]

Hey guys, can anyone tell me what is Cloaking and Whether It is useful or not?

[Carlbrewster]

Please google about it!

[praveenitech40]

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.

[padmadevi]

Clocking is a technique that the content offered to the search engine spider is different from the offered to user's browser and it is a black hat SEO techniques.

[sadianisar]

Cloaking is a Black Hat SEO technique in which content is presented differently to both users and web crawlers.

[hwrank2018]

Cloaking is a method in which the content is presented to the search robot in the different format to the human visitors.It is a Black Hat SEO technique, and it is of many types like IP address Cloaking,User Agent Cloaking.

[Lauraponting]

Cloaking is a mechanism presenting different content or URLs to human users and search engines. It considered a violation of Google's Webmaster Guidelines because it provides our users with different results.

[blackmagicbaba]

iLLEGAL WAY TO BOOST UP THE WEBSITE RANKING

[SerenMckay]

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.

[Nirala]

Cloaking is Black Hat SEO techniques that are used to show the different Content to the SE crawlers and the Users.

[jaysh4922]

Cloaking is a technique where in the content presented to the robot is different from that presented to the user's browser..it is one type of black hat technique..

[drarindamghosh]

Cloaking is a Black hat seo technique.

There are different ways to do cloaking:
Invisible or Hidden text
Flash Based Websites
Cloaking in E-Mail
HTML Rich Websites
Image Gallery Websites
URL Rewriting
Replacement of Java Scripts

[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.

[deepakrajput]

To present your website content in different form for indexing.

[blackmagicbaba]

Cloaking is illegal way to promote the website ranking

[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.