What is Cloaking ?

[seoinheritx]

Clocking is a black seo technique, in which black hater uses two url one is for search engine and other is for users. With this technique search engine get diverted.

[stuartmike4]

Cloaking generally means to present different version of web page contents from of search engines to search robots and human visitors based on their browser's user agent or IP address.

[alfredo85]

Cloaking is an unethical, black hat SEO technique that involves serving different versions of the same page to crawlers.

[piyushaegis]

Cloaking is one type of black hat-seo techniques,
cloaking means..
whenever you enter any query in search engine and the list of contents presented in search engine is different when you open this link.

[Rajdeep Bose]

Cloaking is a SEO (Search Engine Optimization) technique. Basically it's about presenting the crawler of search engines a different website than normal users. Clocking is showing the search engine one thing and your visitors another.

[jaysh4922]

Cloaking is a technique where in the content presented to the robot is different from that presented to the user's browser..

[blessy_smith]

Cloaking is another sleight-of-hand SEO technique. For SEO purposes, cloaking a site is a method of delivering a page based on who is requesting the page. For example, if a web site is using cloaking, when a regular visitor comes to the site, that visitor will see one page. But when a search crawler comes to the site, it sees a much more relevant, better optimized site.

[albiestorm]

Cloaking is perfect Black Hat Seo technique..Cloaking is an 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.

[colesraymond]

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Cloaking is normally means to present different version of web page contents from of search engines to search robots and human visitors based on their browser's user agent or IP address. It is a deceptive technique used to cheat search engines in order to rank well for desired keywords.

[jamsen]

Cloaking is the masking of the sender's name and address in an e-mail note or distribution. An individual or company that sends spam or, as they prefer to call it, "bulk e-mail" usually conceals their own e-mail address for various reasons, including the possibility that someone will swamp the originator's own e-mail server with retributional spam.

[Zora2012]

A website that uses cloaking recognizes search engine spiders by their IP address. It returns web pages to search engine spiders that are different from the web pages that web surfers see. Usually, the cloaking software creates hundreds of web pages that are optimized for a special search term so that search engine spiders get the impression that the website contains a lot of relevant information about a special topic.

[webcreations]

Cloaking is commonly referred to as a black hat, or unethical, SEO practice. Cloaking consists of deceiving search engine crawler by directing them to web pages that are not actually visible on the domain that the crawlers are trying to analyze. Usually, these false pages are loaded with keyword rich content and seo designed to boost the search results ranking of the web page.cloaking is also used to trick users to visit certain websites based on their description in search engines. For example a user searching for some product may click on a website in search engine based on its description and title but the final website will not be the one described in SERP's. It will be a totally different one.

[theavi]

Cloaking is a black hat techniques and opposite of search engine guidelines. It means to have two pages of website one for user and other for serahc engine spiders and having same content in both pages.

[GeorgeS2]

Everyone gives perfect answer but i have one query about cloaking, How do you come to know which site is using cloaking technique? When you click on any link in search result it will redirect you on that website so how you can come to know which site using cloaking?

I want to know about this,

[sabrinasai]

Cloaking is another sleight-of-hand SEO technique. For SEO purposes, cloaking a site is a method of delivering a page based on who is requesting the page. For example, if a web site is using cloaking, when a regular visitor comes to the site, that visitor will see one page. But when a search crawler comes to the site, it sees a much more relevant, better optimized site.

[brandappz]

cloaking consider as black hat SEO technique. In this both search engine's behaviour and user's behaviour will be different.

[Chikan]

Cloaking is one of the Black Hat SEO technique. It is the method of showing two different pages - one which search engine crawls is different and the one which users sees is different.

[jedifriv]

Fantastic post and great content! Thank you very much for post.

[yepionline]

Cloaking is one of the Black Hat SEO technique. It is a way of showing two different content in a webpage - one which user see is different and other which search engine crawls see different.

[J Chris]

Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to users and search engines. Serving up different results based on user agent may cause your site to be perceived as deceptive and removed from the Google index. If the file that Googlebot sees is not identical to the file that a typical user sees, then you’re in a high-risk category…

[paulbrighton]

Clocking is a black hat seo technique, in which the content
presented to the search engine spider is different from that presented to the user.

[rohit]

Cloaking means essentially showing different content to users and search engine Bots. It misleads the BOTs displaying a varied content for an actual content available for the users.

[Ship497]

We all know that. Cloaking is one of the Black hat SEO technique which must be avoided otherwise it leads to the penalization or banning of a website from search engine.

[abhijepansd]

Cloaking is only used to deceived the users and search engines crawler. it's also a types of black hat seo method.
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[nilam-shah]

A website that uses cloaking recognizes search engine spiders by their IP address. It returns web pages to search engine spiders that are different from the web pages that web surfers see.

[rousellwall]

Cloaking is really unethical SEO technique. We never use this type of technique for website promotion in Search Engine.

[vikas_patel]

Cloaking means to either disguise your traffic source, or to hide that you are redirecting users with an affiliate link.