What is cloaking?

[yamamura]

The term cloaking, considered a form of spam by search engines, is the technique of hiding true page content from either a human or robot visitor. This technique is used both to camouflage actual page content from page thieves and to artificially present a more “search engine friendly” website to visiting spiders. Cloaking is considered an unacceptable practice by all of the major search engines and can be cause for banning.
........
|

 

[handbags]

cloaking is simply a strategy in which, on a same url/address, look for website optimization spider is provided with a different version of web page as compared to the one which is provided to the user. It is a Blackhat-SEO strategy and is used to fool look for website optimization.

 

[andreymima]

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.

 

[farny]

website that uses cloaking recognizes search engine spiders by their IP address. It returns web pages to search engine spiders that are different from the web pages that web surfers see. Usually, the cloaking software creates hundreds of web pages that are optimized for a special search term so that search engine spiders get the impression that the website contains a lot of relevant information about a special topic.

If you often search on Google then you probably can confirm that you can get good results with cloaking. You can often find web pages on Google that have little to do with the description on the result page.
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.

 

[mantrais593]

Totally agreed with @farny and you all...Its Spam activity for every search engine..

 

[mikethomas01]

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. This is done by delivering content based on the IP addresses or the User-Agent HTTP header of the user requesting the page.

 

[lillianabe]

Cloaking is a black hat technique and it can cause a search engine penalty. Cloaking is way of content presentation, where search engines can only see content not the user on website or blog. It is a way to cheat with search engine to get well rank.

 

[socialbookmarkings]

It is a technique in which websites presents URL or page to search engines for indexing whilehaving different page to users.

We Offer Best l l l

 

[anjie]

Cloaking is black hat technique and it can cause search engine penalty. Cloaking is way of content presentation, where search engine can only see content not the user on website or blog. It is way to cheat with search engine to get well rank.

 

[andreymima]

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.

 

[vgkumar]

A website that uses cloaking recognizes search engine spiders by their IP address. It returns web pages to search engine spiders that are different from the web pages that web surfers see. Usually, the cloaking software creates hundreds of web pages that are optimized for a special search term so that search engine spiders get the impression that the website contains a lot of relevant information about a special topic.

If you often search on Google then you probably can confirm that you can get good results with cloaking. You can often find web pages on Google that have little to do with the description on the result page.
.....................