What Do You Mean by SEO Cloaking?

[stuartspindlow5]

Hello Friends,

Please tell me what do you mean by SEO cloaking.

[Williams Reus]

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.

[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.

[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.

[Sonika11Mehra]

Cloaking is Black Hat SEO strategy which is bad for your site. It is the system in which the substance displayed to the web crawler bug is unique in relation to that introduced to client's program.

[Arangs]

Cloaking: Cloaking content - is the blackhat seo techniques to search engine optimization. This procedure is based on the spider of different search engines that present different content to users.