What is cloaking?
- Thread starter Theomax
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Cloaking which is tricking the visitor and the search engine with a different set of content. Cloaking is a term used to the describes the black hat technique in which the visitors are shown a particular content, and the search engines are shown different content.
MarinaKimia
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Hello, there are other more threads that talk about cloaking on the forum... you can search the key work "cloeaking" and find more insight 
Here is one for example: Cloaking is it necessary or not?
Here is one for example: Cloaking is it necessary or not?
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Gosuperb
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Cloaking is a black hat SEO technique in which the content is redirected unnaturally so that a page could have better indexing and higher rankings. The name "cloaking" comes from cloak content, which is made in order to misrepresent search engine rankings - the information presented to the user is different from the information presented to SERPs. Since cloaking is illegal and a violation to search engines’ terms of service, a site using this technique may permanently be banned.
Cloaking means disguising a link so that it doesn’t display the actual URL to which the visitor is sent when he clicks on the link. It is most often applied with affiliate links which have several severe disadvantages that can cost an affiliate money
Cloaking is a spamming search engine optimization (SEO) technique that some webmasters use to show the content of their sites to the search engine spider so they could rank higher for their keywords, and they show something else to the visitors.
Cloaking is a search engine optimization technique in which the content is different from users to search engine crawlers 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.
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.
Jack Ramon
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Cloaking is a method in which the content is presented to the search robot in the different format to the human visitors.It is a Black Hat SEO technique, and it is of many types like IP address Cloaking,User Agent Cloaking.
SEO 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.
It is one of the Black hat technique used to deceive search engine to have higher page rank.
AstroBoss
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take a look on this thread it should help you understanding what is cloaking Cloaking is it necessary or not?
Sanshez
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nice thread!
Jack Ramon
Member
Cloaking is a method in which the content is presented to the search robot in the different format to the human visitors.It is a Black Hat SEO technique, and it is of many types like IP address Cloaking,User Agent Cloaking.
K2Bsolutions
Member
Cloaking is one of the black hat techniques in which the content submiited to the searchengine will be different from the content showed to the users
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Graybeard
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Hey @Theomax
Cloaking is the process of either hiding a webpage’s content or an affiliate tracking code on a link. This is a negative practice since it’s against the guidelines of search engines. We are strongly recommending to avoid it unless you do not want to have problems with searching engines in the future
Cloaking is the process of either hiding a webpage’s content or an affiliate tracking code on a link. This is a negative practice since it’s against the guidelines of search engines. We are strongly recommending to avoid it unless you do not want to have problems with searching engines in the future
hwrankseo2018
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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 that are spiders or bots for better indexing.
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