What do you mean by Cloaking?

What do you mean by Cloaking?

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

Cloaking is a blackhat SEO technique. it shows different information when the user tries to know something online what they are seeing. Actually it works on redirection method.

Cloaking in SEO is a method used to serve users content or information that is different from what is presented to search engine crawlers (i.e. spiders or bots) to improve a website's search engine rankings for certain keywords. Some examples of cloaking include: Serving a page of HTML text to search engines, while showing a page of images to users.

We can say that this is a black hat SEO method where the content or information presented to the user is different from that.