What is Cloaking?

[Mark Alfred]

What is the exact meaning of cloaking in SEO?

[ShriBalaJiUdyog]

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.

[dennis123]

Cloaking is a technique used to deliver the content on a Web page to a search engine in a way that is different to what the user was looking for.

The purpose of cloaking is to boost a website’s search engine rank on certain keywords. Cloaking takes a user to the other sites than what he or she expects by disguising those sites’ true content.

[Eliza Jackson]

Cloaking is one of the Black Hat SEO technique, where content shown to user is different from the content presented to bots.

[dombowkett]

In this techniques webmaster represent their website content in different form for Google indexing.

[Sara James]

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.

[neelseowork]

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.

[HosTechS]

Link Cloaking is a method to convert your long and ugly looking affiliate links to short and pretty links.

[Saravanan28]

cloaking means presenting a different set of pages to visitors and the different set of pages to search-engine Bot.

[Arulkumaran]

Cloaking is a way to hide the true URL of your affiliate link to make it easier to the eye. This comes in handy when you’re trying to keep track of your sales and you want to ensure that people remember or can easily embed the link in their URL bar.

[amarnathsmm]

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.