What do you mean by cloaking?

[etsuser]

What do you mean by cloaking? Cloaking is a part of seo.

[vksheilds]

Cloaking is black hat SEO technique that redirect robot and user to non relevant page

[ursimrankhanna]

Hi,
cloaking is a part of black hat seo process.don't utilize the cloaking in the seo process. its can harmful for your site.

[jiyaalbert]

cloaking is the way to present the webpage content in different form that presented in the user browser.

[andy25i]

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.

[saira]

Cloaking is black hat SEO technique used to deliver same page with different content for search engine to indexing and to attract the visitors.

[venkatjaya]

Clocking is Search engine optimization (SEO) is important to the success of a website. However, successful search engine optimization takes time. Many webmasters don't want to invest the time and work that's necessary to optimize a site.

[delois]

Cloaking is black hat/unethical SEO technique which contain deceiving of the search engine crawlers by detecting them the web pages which are actually not visible on the domain. These pages are loaded with the keyword rich content.

[mogulskiholiday]

Cloaking generally means to present different version of web page contents from of search engines to search robots and human visitors based on their browser's user agent or IP address. It's a deceptive method used to cheat search engines in order to rank well for desired keywords.

Not always but in most of the cases, cloaking is also used to trick users to visit certain websites based on their description in search engines. For example a user searching for some product may click on a website in search engine based on its description and title but the final website will not be the one described in SERP's. It will be a totally different one. Therefore, these practices that are designed to manipulate search engines and deceive users by directing them to sites other than the ones they selected, and that provide content solely for the benefit of search engines should be avoided.


Different Cloaking Methods

IP address Cloaking - a method of presenting different contents based on determining IP addresses. e.g. Search engines with certain IP addresses will be shown a one version of a web page and all other IP addresses will be shown another version.

User-Agent Cloaking - a method of delivering different versions of a website based on User-Agent. e.g. Search engines and/or users using different versions of web browsers are served with different contents of a web page.

[ankitneuro]

clocking is a black-hat tech in which create two different version of web pages one for crawlers and another for users , because of crawler version site get position in SERP but user sees another version . I personalty , strongly recommend not to use because the big boss GOOGLE do not like this .

[schumannrober]

Clocking is really very harmful for a website, don't use the method to promote your site.

[talks44]

Cloaking means having duplicate content with different tags, Don't do it unless you are experienced.

[jmark1107]

Cloaking is also known as stealth, a technique used by some Web sites to deliver one page to a search engine for indexing while serving an entirely different page to everyone else.

[0092directory]

Search engine optimization (SEO) is important to the success of a website. However, successful search engine optimization takes time. Many webmasters don't want to invest the time and work that's necessary to optimize a site.

For that reason, some webmasters use cloaking to get their websites listed on search engines.