What is cloaking?

Re: What is cloaking?

According to Google cloaking is "a website that returns altered webpages to search engines crawling the site." In other words, a human reading the site would see different content or information than the Googlebot or other search engine robot reading the site. Most of the time, 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.

Current Status
Most search engines will immediately remove and sometimes blacklist a site that is discovered to be cloaking. They do this because cloaking is usually intended to completely fool the search engine's algorithms and programming that determine what makes a site rank high or low in that engine. If the page that the customer sees is different from the page that the search engine bot sees, then the search engine cannot do its job. So they ban sites that use cloaking.

Re: What is cloaking?

Cloaking means introducing number of content or URLs to search engines. Distributing several results depend on user agent may cause your site to be noticed as dishonest and removed from the Google index.

Re: What is cloaking?

Cloaking is one of the method of Black Hat SEO.

According to me , By URl cloaking we show other URL to user and redirect to other URL.

Re: What is cloaking?

seoforum89;74544 wrote: What is cloaking?

Cloaking is a SEO technique. It represents the different content to user's browsers and search engine.