Cloak googlebot

[dudedu]

Hi Guys,
I'm new to cloaking, so hoping you could lead me to the right direction.

What do I need to do if I want to cloak googlebot to Page A and all other spiders and web visitors to Page B (or vice versa)? Any scripts, tools, services for that?
What are the chances Google will detect that? How to make sure not to get caught?

Thanks

 

[Schvamp]

PHP/Wordpress

if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"Googlebot"))  { 
// Show this site to google
}else{
// And this to everyone else
}

Name of other bots: http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/Crawlerlist/

 

[dudedu]

That's it? If I were Google, I'd make some bot with a strange name to detect cloaking and penalize the cloakers. Can't it be the case?

 

[Schvamp]

That's it? If I were Google, I'd make some bot with a strange name to detect cloaking and penalize the cloakers. Can't it be the case?

Only google can answer that

Another approach people make is to show *something* only to visitors coming from search engines or w/e.
That way you reverse the process, showing instead of hiding. Often used for email opt-ins pop ups and such.
No one would ever return to a site that asks for you email every time you visit it.

 

[bartosimpsonio]

You better have a professional cloaking system in place or you'll be found out in a day. Google uses several tactics to check for cloaking, if you do it wrong your site is dead for good...

 

[ContentLockPro]

Simple USER agent redirect can work wonders for you.

 

[dudedu]

What's a "professional cloaking system"? Can you suggest any?

 

[bartosimpsonio]

What's a "professional cloaking system"? Can you suggest any?

A professional cloaking system is one where it rarely fails to distinguish the real visitors from google. If the cloaking system is not well implemented, it will detect google as a user and reveal your content.

A user on this forum called mrblackjack has a top notch cloaking system, you can contact him with questions. I'm currently promoting his system on my sig so you can have a look.

 

[mrblackjack]

With UserAgent filtering your account will last maybe 5 minutes as Google uses other UA strings that match human, uses IPs of different ISP providers (as human use) and also check your landers manually

 

[dudedu]

Thanks mrblackhat. So, with your service is it possible to cloak this way that google sees one page and all other pots (especially ahrefs, majestic etc) and visitors see other? How does it work? Or it's designed for PPC only?

 

[mrblackjack]

Thanks mrblackhat. So, with your service is it possible to cloak this way that google sees one page and all other pots (especially ahrefs, majestic etc) and visitors see other? How does it work? Or it's designed for PPC only?

Yes, it can do all the above you mentioned, and it's not designed for PPC only, also for organic traffic

 

[dudedu]

For comparison, are there other G cloaking systems/services out there?

 

[mrblackjack]

For comparison, are there other G cloaking systems/services out there?

Yes, there are:
1. NoIPFraud
2. WPcloaker

 

[qcp860]

I 100% agree with Blackjack. The issue here is support -- you want a script that invests time to find fingerprints beyond just known IP and user agents. And you want someone on the other end of email or other support line. NoIP, Blackjack's, and mine are 3 I know where a question gets answered.

 

[farhaanclass]

Yes, there are:
1. NoIPFraud
2. WPcloaker

We would like to have your service to cloak our web site.