What is URL Cloaking?

[pharmasecure]

What is URL Cloaking?

[MilesGeek]

Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to human users and search engines. Cloaking is considered a violation of Google's Webmaster Guidelines because it provides our users with different results than they expected.

[makoo]

Cloaking is a black hat SEO technique used for promoting webpage for search. This black hat practice is kind of practice different content is displayed for search engines spiders than what user see on page.

[vjvysakh]

Domain masking or URL masking is the act of hiding the actual domain name of a website from the URL field of a user's web browser in favor of another name.

[Biking Bachelor]

Clocking means that visitors to the domain name will be forwarded to your destination website, however the URL in their browser address bar will remain the same. Also known as Stealth Redirection or URL Hiding, this will ensure that your visitors see the original domain name and not the destination URL.

[SKPglobal]

Clocking means that visitors to the domain name will be forwarded to your destination website, however the URL in their browser address bar will remain the same. Also known as Stealth Redirection or URL Hiding, this will ensure that your visitors see the original domain name and not the destination URL.

[yuva12]

Domain masking or URL masking is the act of hiding the actual domain name of a website from the URL field of a user's web browser in favor of another name.

[juliaalan]

“web masking” or “URL cloaking” this provides a way to URL forward to another resource while the browser’s location bar retains the original domain name. This is useful if you are using some long, third-party URL that you don’t have control over, but you want to tie it to your own domain name.


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[GeethaN]

Domain masking or URL masking is the act of hiding the actual domain name of a website from the URL field of a user's web browser in favor of another name. There are many ways to do this, including the following examples.

[Bloggercageseo]

Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to human users and search engines. Cloaking is considered a violation of Google's Webmaster Guidelines because it provides our users with different results than they expected.

Some examples of cloaking include:

Serving a page of HTML text to search engines, while showing a page of images to users
Inserting text or keywords into a page only when the user agent that's requesting the page is a search engine, not a human visitor

[Anushh]

URL cloaking is the method of hiding real address of the site. It causes many issues preventing the user to share contents on the web page or do any actions from it. The visitors will be able to see the original domain name and not the destination URL. It is one of the Black hat SEO practice.

[dombowkett]

Cloaking is spam techniques in which we represent website content in different form for indexing.

[_sha]

Link cloaking is the process of disguising the affiliate link URL provided by an affiliate program to muddle the affiliate ID and make the link shorter. Link cloaking protects your affiliate commissions by making the affiliate ID less visible. At the same time, it makes the link more visually appealing to visitors.