What is Link Cloaking ?

[rajivdevkk]

I have heard that some site are penalized for link cloaking but I don't know about Cloaking. What is link clocking ?

[milos87popovic]

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.

[smithjackson11]

Link cloaking is a method used to make a long affiliate URL link into a shorter and prettier one.
Look at these two links:

“http://affiliatename.hop.affiliateprogram.com”
“http://affiliateprogram.com/?clickid=abc1234567″

[schwa]

Link cloaking or masking is the technique of hiding the true destination of a hyperlink. This is done to improve CTR as visitors may feel more comfortable clicking on a friendly-looking link. There are several ways to accomplish this including using Javascript to hide or change the destination that shows in the browser's status bar, iframes or redirects. It is generally viewed as black hat but this has been debated depending on it's usage.

[anirban09P]

Link cloaking or masking is the technique of hiding the true destination of a hyperlink. This is done to improve CTR as visitors may feel more comfortable clicking on a friendly-looking link. There are several ways to accomplish this including using Javascript to hide or change the destination that shows in the browser's status bar, iframes or redirects.

[tom&jeny]

>Link Cloaking is the process of hiding true destination of hyperlink.
>This process is done with JavaScript and iframes to hide or redirect.
>This is also known as masking.

[john00]

When any one click on the link of the Disney cartoons but they get the porn website after the click is the example of the Link Cloaking.

[jaysh4922]

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

[Stiffen87]

Cloaking comes under black hat SEO its better you stay far away from this method. Cloaking try to manipulate Google algorithm by showing two different thing to the user and Google.

[NicholasCage]

Link cloaking is a method used to make a long affiliate URL link into a shorter and prettier one.

[Chhaya]

Link cloaking is a method used to make a long affiliate URL link into a shorter and prettier one.

thanks for giving this information.....

[jackthomas087]

Useful information..

Without attempting to go into the theory behind affiliate link cloaking, SEO, and what Google can and can not see....

[LindaFoster]

Cloaking is often used as a spamdexing technique to try to trick search engines into giving the relevant site a higher ranking.

[revasharma2]

Thanks guys for share this information./

[rehal]

Thanks for sharing about link cloaking.....