What is the cloaking technique?

[jenniferjennife]

What is the cloaking technique?

[ryanwuk]

Cloaking is a technique used in search engine optimization (SEO) where different content is presented to search engine crawlers than what is presented to human visitors. In other words, it is a way of hiding content from users while making it visible to search engines.

The purpose of cloaking is usually to manipulate search engine rankings by presenting content that is keyword-rich to search engine crawlers while presenting a different, more user-friendly version to human visitors. This can be used to try and boost search engine rankings for specific keywords or phrases that the website owner is targeting.

However, cloaking is generally considered a black hat SEO technique and is against the guidelines of search engines like Google. If caught, websites that engage in cloaking may be penalized, and their rankings may drop significantly or be removed from the search engine altogether.

[bigbenunited]

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.

[saritamagazine]

Cloaking is a black hat SEO technique in which a website shows search engines one version of a URL, page, or content in order to rank, while showing another version to its actual visitors.