What is Link Cloaking ?

[rajivdevkk]

I have heard that some site are penalized for link cloaking but I don't know about Cloaking. What is link clocking ?

[milos87popovic]

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.

[smithjackson11]

Link cloaking is a method used to make a long affiliate URL link into a shorter and prettier one.
Look at these two links:

“http://affiliatename.hop.affiliateprogram.com”
“http://affiliateprogram.com/?clickid=abc1234567″

[schwa]

Link cloaking or masking is the technique of hiding the true destination of a hyperlink. This is done to improve CTR as visitors may feel more comfortable clicking on a friendly-looking link. There are several ways to accomplish this including using Javascript to hide or change the destination that shows in the browser's status bar, iframes or redirects. It is generally viewed as black hat but this has been debated depending on it's usage.

[anirban09P]

Link cloaking or masking is the technique of hiding the true destination of a hyperlink. This is done to improve CTR as visitors may feel more comfortable clicking on a friendly-looking link. There are several ways to accomplish this including using Javascript to hide or change the destination that shows in the browser's status bar, iframes or redirects.

[tom&jeny]

>Link Cloaking is the process of hiding true destination of hyperlink.
>This process is done with JavaScript and iframes to hide or redirect.
>This is also known as masking.

[john00]

When any one click on the link of the Disney cartoons but they get the porn website after the click is the example of the Link Cloaking.

[jaysh4922]

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

[Stiffen87]

Cloaking comes under black hat SEO its better you stay far away from this method. Cloaking try to manipulate Google algorithm by showing two different thing to the user and Google.

[NicholasCage]

Link cloaking is a method used to make a long affiliate URL link into a shorter and prettier one.

[Chhaya]

Link cloaking is a method used to make a long affiliate URL link into a shorter and prettier one.

thanks for giving this information.....

[jackthomas087]

Useful information..

Without attempting to go into the theory behind affiliate link cloaking, SEO, and what Google can and can not see....

[LindaFoster]

Cloaking is often used as a spamdexing technique to try to trick search engines into giving the relevant site a higher ranking.

[revasharma2]

Thanks guys for share this information./

[rehal]

Thanks for sharing about link cloaking.....

[guptaabhijit318]

Cloaking is a synthetic methods used for boosting rankings and many a time website are penalized by search engine doing this activity.

[Ship497]

Its a black hat SEO technique. It is showing of two different webpages or content of the same URL to the user and search engine bots respectively.

[arianagrand]

Cloaking is important as for example when someone sees a clickbank link, before actually clicking on your link they will change the clickbank id to theirs. Or in some case the customer prefers to buy directly from the main site.........

[Michael 55]

Hi,

Nice ideas from everyone, i would like to say link cloaking or scene is the skillfulness of hiding the honest end of a hyperlink. This is through to modify CTR as visitors may conceive writer soothing clicking on a friendly-looking instruction. There are several slipway to fulfill this including using Javascript to pelt or happening the destination that shows in the application's status bar, iframes or redirects. It is mostly viewed as dim hat but this has been debated depending on it's practice.

[dadiehost]

Disguising a link using a web service like tinyurl so that it doesn’t display the actual URL to which the visitor is sent when he clicks on the link. Cloaked links are often shorter, and offer a measure of security when applied to affiliate links.

[rohit]

Disguising a link using a web service like tiny url so that it doesn’t display the actual URL to which the visitor is sent when he clicks on the link. Cloaked links are often shorter, and offer a measure of security when applied to affiliate links.

[godwin]

If you run an affiliate program you may have noticed that some of your affiliates use a practice known as “link cloaking.” Link cloaking is a method used to make a long affiliate URL link into a shorter and prettier one—often to the detriment of a brand.