Can someone explain what cloaking is exactly?

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

When a website or webpage shows different content to visitors than it does to search engines. Cloaking is similar to the "bait and switch" tactic where code is placed to show spiders optimized content, fooling the search engine into thinking the webpage is optimized for something it is not and placing it higher in search results. When a visitor clicks on this page, they often see completely different and possibly unrelated content. This is a black hat tactic that will result in getting banned from the search engines. Source by http://seoweboptimize.blogspot.com/2012/03/seo-glossary.html

campbelljof said:

When a website or webpage shows different content to visitors than it does to search engines. Cloaking is similar to the "bait and switch" tactic where code is placed to show spiders optimized content, fooling the search engine into thinking the webpage is optimized for something it is not and placing it higher in search results. When a visitor clicks on this page, they often see completely different and possibly unrelated content. This is a black hat tactic that will result in getting banned from the search engines.

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You are wrong, cloaking and bait/switch are totally different.


Cloaking is all about showing a diff page to reviewers/spider or not ** it doesn't matter **

and a different page to REAL VISITORS!

just google it you can learn more things about clocking

Furious Man said:

just google it you can learn more things about clocking

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You bump 3-4 months old thread just to say "google it" ah?