What is cloaking ?

[stevepeterson]

Hello All,

I want to know that what is cloaking in SEO Field.

Thanks in Advance,
Steve

[johnmartyn]

Originally Posted by stevepeterson

Hello All,

I want to know that what is cloaking in SEO Field.

Thanks in Advance,
Steve

I have never heard about cloaking before reading your post so, now i am also to eager to know about cloaking.

[joyce686]

so , why not just google it , guys ?
google is a search engine, isn't it ?

[joyce686]

okay , anyway , i would like to share ,hope help
Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to users and search engines. Serving up different results based on user agent may cause your site to be perceived as deceptive and removed from the Google index.
Some examples of cloaking include:
• Serving a page of HTML text to search engines, while showing a page of images or Flash to users.
• Serving different content to search engines than to users.
If your site contains elements that aren't crawlable by search engines (such as rich media files other than Flash, JavaScript, or images), you shouldn't provide cloaked content to search engines. Rather, you should consider visitors to your site who are unable to view these elements as well. For instance:
• Provide alt text that describes images for visitors with screen readers or images turned off in their browsers.
• Provide the textual contents of JavaScript in a noscript tag.
Ensure that you provide the same content in both elements (for instance, provide the same text in the JavaScript as in the noscript tag). Including substantially different content in the alternate element may cause Google to take action on the site.

[arslan220]

cloaking is the text you insert as a hidden text in the webpage.

[tazsolmarketing]

cloaking is a hidden pages commonly use by seo expert

[johnmartyn]

Originally Posted by tazsolmarketing

cloaking is a hidden pages commonly use by seo expert

Thanks for suggestion this good information

[urminenow]

Cloaking is part of black hat technique. It is a technique used by some websites to deliver one page to a search engine for indexing while serving an entirely different page to everyone else.

[thirdisa]

Since cloaking is part of black hat SEO, this should be avoided because Google might penalize and ban your site and all your SEO efforts could just go to waste.

[betty]

I just know that its a black hat trick and its used for different search engine, If someone has further information plz share here.

[plgffl]

black hat SEO, should be avoided
maybe u'd better do without knowing it

[dogfence]

I intend to go and check out both the Cloaking Primer and the other site. Some people actually have charged me a fee to help me cloak my ...

[andrew39]

To put it simply, it just means what u present to the search engines and to the users is completely different. It is a kind of cheating to the SEs.

[Bestone]

yeah arslan you are right Cloaking is the text you insert as a hidden text in the webpage