What is Cloaking?

[shoponics]

What is Cloaking?

[virendra]

Clocking is the procedure of using some deceptive techniques which allows the user with a different version of the website than that presented to the search engines.

[Chhaya]

Cloaking is "a website that returns altered webpages to search engines crawling the site." In other words, a human reading the site would see different content or information than the Googlebot or other search engine robot reading the site.

[arianagrand]

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...

[Anny87]

Cloaking means you are trying to show same page in two different ways. Like user will see different page and google algorithm will also see the different page. In this case you will manipulate Google algorithm.