Cloaking Techniques - Will This Work?

imageek said:

I am attempting to cloak Google. Display different content to the user if coming from a Google search.

I set up a site, enabled cloaking, and I got indexed, and got traffic (no leads yet, traffic is small). This is the code I write. Are there other techniques I can use to employ? If anyone can share some advice, either publicly, or privately I will write a script and release it free for you guys.

Code:

function isGoogleSearch()
{
    if(strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], 'google'))
    {
        return true;
    } 
    else {
        return false;
    }
}

If it is from a Google search, the page includes some obfuscated Javascript which redirects the user to where ever I want them to go.

Should I be doing other things? I can't help but think what though. Aside from maybe check if the useragent is a Google bot.

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dmncstech said:

One of the great things about the internet and search engines is that you know what a person is looking for before they get to your website... You obviously have hosting and traffic logs. Examine your traffic logs and examine them closely.. you will notice that google will put the keyword (search phrase ) in the referer... if a keyword or phrase is found then its a good bet that you got a human visitor. Perform your redirection on this finding. This is pretty damn accurate. This also works for other SE's. Also as someone else stated, google is not all seeing . It's my opinion google is simply an advertising firm with a website. They just have a lot of phd's on their payroll.

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peetrike said:

Not true at all. If you want to cloak the traffic based by incoming search terms then you only get a small part of whole traffic to be cloaked.
Cheers

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