What is SEO Cloaking?

[RobMorrow71]

Hello Friends,

Please tell me what is SEO cloaking.

[RH-Calvin]

It is un-ethical black hat SEO technique. The programmer writes a content for search engine purpose, but not for the people. Consequently, the search engine sees one content, but visitor sees other content. It's violation of Google webmaster guidelines.

[daviddakarai]

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. This is done by delivering content based on the IP addresses or the User-Agent HTTP header of the user requesting the page.

[jeny]

Cloaking is search engine optimization technique in which the content presented to the search engine spider or googlebot is different from that presented to the user's
browser.Cloaking is Like when the user or googlebot requesting for the same page at a same time then server showing different content to visitor then the googlebot or a spider.

if a user or a googlebot request a Html file then server send the different files to both.In which the content is deliver based on the IP address or user-agent HTTP header.In simple words Cloaking means presenting different things to the Bot and the visitors.

Some examples of cloaking include:
Serving a page of HTML text to search engines, while showing a page of images or Flash to users
Inserting text or keywords into a page only when the User-agent requesting the page is a search engine, not a human visitor.

[Kalpart]

Cloaking is an unethical black hat seo technique. In these technique, the websites content is shown different for the search engine and for the user, that is a single page contain two different content one for search engine and other for the user. It's violation of Google webmaster guidelines.

[petersonangela]

Cloaking is one of black hat SEO technique, content show different of search engine and different content to users.

[smithandrew558]

SEO Cloaking is the black hat seo and we should always ignore this.