what is cloaking and is it beneficial in SEO
 

there are ways to do any work. some people use ethical ways and other breaches the laws and same job is performed by them. Cloaking is also a black hat SEO technique. I need a detailed knowledge of this technique to guide my students properly.
and forum member can provide me the best of his knowledge in this context.

How is it possible?

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. ... Cloaking is often used as a spamdexing technique to try to trick search engines into giving the relevant site a higher ranking

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Cloaking is a Black Hat SEO technique which is used to present different content to both users and web crawlers. And it is not beneficial for SEO. Top SEO Expert in lahore

Cloaking is one of the Black-Hat SEO technique in which the content presented to the search engine spider is different from that presented to the user's browser.

Exactly,Many user using this techniques but this is bad for us...

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. The goal of cloaking is to boost a website's search engine rank on certain keywords.

Link Cloaking is a method to convert your long and ugly looking affiliate links to short and pretty links.