What is cloaking?

[ryanwuk]

Cloaking is a SEO technique in which the content presented to the search engine spider is different from that presented to the user's browser. This is done by delivering content based on the IP addresses or the User-Agent HTTP header of the user requesting the page.

 

[Jackanderson]

Cloaking is a pure black hat SEO technique in which we present a page of HTML text to search engines while showing a page of images or Flash to users. Google does not allow us to do cloaking on our website.

 

[MyLead]

Cloaking was one of the black hat technics which are now not very effective, can even derank your website. It was adding extra worlds and keywords just to get extra position on your site.

 

[Graybeard]

Something that does not work for long today -- weeks or a month at best before it is detected.
https://2018.zeronights.ru/wp-conte...-at-what-happens-when-you-click-that-link.pdf
this came to me via this newsletter -- silly Russian PDF rather crude but does he see the truth at the end
WHAT THE AFF... <crew@wtaff.co>

 

[swara]

Cloaking is a black hat SEO technique-
In cloaking website owner shows different content to the user and different to a web crawler, to increase it's ranking

 

[monicageller3691]

Cloaking is one of the search engine optimization technique in which the content or information appears is different to users and for crawlers. It is also called black hat technique.