What do you mean by Cloaking?

[harshal]

What do you mean by Cloaking?

[Mithzi Rai]

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.

[WoodsPainting]

Cloaking. Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to human users and search engines. ... Some examples of cloaking include: Serving a page of HTML text to search engines, while showing a page of images or Flash to users.

[PoolMaster]

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.

[dennis123]

Hi Friends,
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.

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

[yuva12]

Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to human users and search engines. ... Some examples of cloaking include: Serving a page of HTML text to search engines, while showing a page of images or Flash to users.