What do you mean by Cloaking?

[John_cote]

Cloaking is a search engine optimization (SEO) way in which that content given to the search engine spider is another from that shown to the user's browser. This is performed by presenting content based on the IP locations or the User-Agent HTTP header of the user inquiring the page

[amarnathsmm]

When the content present to the search crawler and the user changes it is called cloaking.

[Shantanu]

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.

[yuva12]

Cloaking is an SEO technique to have better indexing. In this technique, the information presented to the user is different from that presented to search engine crawlers.

[ashishbansal]

Cloaking is a search engine optimization technique in which the content or information presented to the user is different from that presented to search engine crawlers (i.e. spiders or bots) for better indexing. In other words, cloak definition is, the web server is specially programmed to return different content to search engines than it returns to regular users, in an attempt to distort search engine rankings by making a cloak content. You might have understood now that cloaking is an illegal practice and is considered a Black hat SEO. The Search engine may permanently ban from our index any sites or site authors that engage in cloaking.

Here’s what Google has to say on Cloaking

Cloaking technology is considered as a violation of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines also as it provides our users with different results than they expected.

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

Cloaking is implemented in order to improve search engine ranking by misleading the search engine robot into thinking the content on the page is different than it really is. It is often used as a spamdexing technique (search engine spam, search engine poisoning) to try to trick search engines into giving the relevant site a higher ranking. You also might have heard about page cloaking and web cloaking.

[patriciamartin]

Cloaking is a technique where the material is introduced to the search motors in the various format into the individual visitors.It is a Black Hat SEO method, and it's of numerous forms such as IP address Cloaking,User Agent Cloaking.

[SKS]

Cloaking is the process of showing the different content to the SE crawlers and the Users.

[wiztechkanaga]

Cloaking is a search engine optimization technique in which the content or information presented to the user is different from that presented to search engine crawlers (i.e. spiders or bots) for better indexing. In other words, cloak definition is, the web server is specially programmed to return different content to search engines than it returns to regular users, in an attempt to distort search engine rankings by making a cloak content. You might have understood now that cloaking is an illegal practice and is considered a Black hat SEO. The Search engine may permanently ban from our index any sites or site authors that engage in cloaking.

[Prateektechnoso]

Cloaking is the one of Black hat SEO. Cloaking will show different Content for users and Search Engine. It will help to increase the Website traffic and Keywords ranking in the short term.

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[amarnathsmm]

Cloaking is a technique where the content represented to search bot is different from the content served to the user.