What is the purpose of cloaking?
 

What is the purpose of cloaking?

Cloaking is Black Hat SEO technique which is not good for your site. Cloaking is the technique in which the content presented to the search engine spider is different from that presented to user's browser.

Cloaking is one of the famous black hat SEO tactic which is used for making some content only for the search engine and user can not see it. So people can stuff the keywords there and without ruining user's experience. but now a days google spiders are so smart . that they can easily catch this and also can gives you penalty.

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.

Cloaking is based on black hat process.

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. ... The purpose of cloaking is sometimes to deceive search engines so they display the page when it would not otherwise be displayed (black hat SEO).

Cloaking is a technique, 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.

- Cloaking is used by black hat and it is one of the unethical practices in SEO. It uses the devices that provide deceiving mechanism for the search engines.

- This directs the webpage to a place that are not visible on domain and the spiders or crawlers are analyzing for it.

*Cloaking provides the use of false pages that are loaded with the keyword and other content that is search engine optimized.
*This boosts the search engine results to rank the page higher on the search engines a and provide artificial methods to advance the ranking of a web page.
*Cloaking only works when it uses CGI scripts in the hidden web page used to scan the IP address of the visitor visiting the web page.

Cloaking is the technique in which the content presented to the search engine spider is different from that presented to user's browser.

Cloaking is Black Hat SEO technique which is not good for your site. Cloaking is the technique in which the content presented to the search engine spider is different from that presented to user's browser.

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. When a user is identified as a search engine spider, a server-side script delivers a different version of the web page, one that contains content not present on the visible page, or that is present but not searchable.

Those who just reply it is bad bad bad for your site, anything related to blackhat, they obviously have no idea whether something works or not because they have never personally tried it...

All they know to respond is bad bad bad. How in the world can you work, say in the adult vertical, and not use cloaking?

@newindiansongs - the purpose is already answered in many previous replies, but the question is, what do you need it FOR? Cloaking can work great for some things, but if you are just running one of those click bank affilaite sites and want eveeerything to be white hat, then forget about it, it's not for you.

In short, cloaking is used for spamming or manipulating the search engines.

The purpose of cloaking is sometimes to deceive search engines so they display the page when it would not otherwise be displayed (black hat SEO).

The purpose of cloaking is sometimes to deceive search engines so they display the page when it would not otherwise be displayed