What is the Cloaking in SEO ?

[artijain1900]

Hello friends,


I would like to know that What is the Cloaking in SEO ? tell me guys..

[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. This method is treated as spam and is not recommended to use.

[DjuniorT]

Google does no like Cloaking overall due to this misleading the crawlers which index pages and assess how relevant pages or content is for the search engine results. Due to the link being misleading it is believed that this can also cause harm to any users visiting a webpage. Penalty's can even be placed by Google in some instances in which numerous cloaked linked are found within a page.

[salman gee]

In layman's term, SEO contest is a competition participated by webmasters using a search engine's website page rank system. Typically, the contest uses a nonsense and non-existent keyword for optimization. Some of the most famous SEO contest keywords include the "hommingberger gepardenforelle", "nigritude ultramarine" and the "V7ndotcom Elursrebmem". Generally, the keywords used in all SEO contests have no meaning because of these two reasons:

1. To avoid older websites to have a head start against newer sites.

2. To protect the ordinary internet searchers from the so-called "search results spams".

SEO contests tend to "trick" search engines, particularly Google's web search results. Google have been the constant ground of most SEO contests because it is notoriously known to have a complex search engine page rank system. Contestants can use any forms of methods and guidelines. These include the white-hat SEO optimization procedure such as giving readers a good & informative contents and fining page titles. However, some webmasters apply the black-hat SEO optimization system such as spamming, spamdexing, and cloaking.

Many SEO contestants use blog because it can be a great source of helpful, fresh and dynamic contents. Furthermore, most search engines prefer blogs as compared to a common website.

[dzeetal]

Cloaking is a black hat techniques which is misguide user. check cloaking online: http://www.flickspoint.com/seo-tools/cloaking-checker-tool-2856.html

[jane1]

Cloaking refers to presenting different urls of a weboage to search engines and online users. It is not useful for better user experience. Read more about it at https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355

[RH-Calvin]

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.

[Alanah_Rae]

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

[jaysh4922]

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

[rohitnagpure336]

Good discussion is going over this thread about Cloaking.

[BerthaJones]

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.

[rajanvefgus]

Clocking is types of black hat seo method. it means you are cheating to search engines and users for giving wrong details.

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[sigmatestcenter]

t 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.

[ramskl]

Cloaking is a SEO tactics in which the content presented to the search engine spider is different from that presented to the user's web browser.

[vickersventure]

Hiding is a SEO (Search Motor Optimization) strategy. Generally it's about introducing the spider of google a different website than normal customers. Clocking is displaying the online look for engine one thing and your visitors another. This method is handled as junk and is not suggested to use.

[varunindia88]

Clocking is part of black hat SEO. If you do not show images, content etc to user but you want spiders crawl your content and images in that condition you can add code in your web page.

[mani ge3e]

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. When a user is identified as a search engine spider, a server-side script delivers a different version of the web page, one that contains content not present on the visible page, or that is present but not searchable. The purpose of cloaking is sometimes to deceive search engines so they display the page when it would not otherwise be displayed (black hat SEO). However, it can also be a functional (though antiquated) technique for informing search engines of content they would not otherwise be able to locate because it is embedded in non-textual containers such as video or certain Adobe Flash components. As of 2006, better methods of accessibility, including progressive enhancement, are available, so cloaking is no longer necessary for regular SEO.

Cloaking is often used as a spamdexing technique to try to trick search engines into giving the relevant site a higher ranking. By the same method, it can also be used to trick search engine users into visiting a site that is substantially different from the search engine description, including delivering pornographic content cloaked within non-pornographic search results.

[seomarqetrix]

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.

[Jennifer Martin]

Cloaking is a Black Hat SEO techniques, where the content shown to user is different from what content is crawled by Google Bots.

[Angeljoe]

Cloaking is a technique used to deliver the content on a Web page to a search engine in such a way that different content than what is delivered to a regular human user

[ShreyaKoushik]

Cloaking is a technique used to deliver the content on a Web page to a search engine in such a way that different content than what is delivered to a regular human user appears on the search engine. The goal of cloaking is to boost a website's search engine rank on certain keywords.

[Jamesboard12]

Literal meaning of SEO Clicking is, 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.

[willykevin1]

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. When a user is identified as a search engine spider, a server-side script delivers a different version of the web page, one that contains content not present on the visible page, or that is present but not searchable. The purpose of cloaking is sometimes to deceive search engines so they display the page when it would not otherwise be displayed (black hat SEO). However, it can also be a functional (though antiquated) technique for informing search engines of content they would not otherwise be able to locate because it is embedded in non-textual containers such as video or certain Adobe Flash components. As of 2006, better methods of accessibility, including progressive enhancement, are available, so cloaking is no longer necessary for regular SEO.

[Bluesky94]

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.