is cloaking a violation of google webmaster's rules?

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sophiarose

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• Feb 9, 2014

• #1

Content meant for search engine is only promoted in cloaking while Google says the content to be human centric

 

WebProm

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• Feb 9, 2014

• #2

Serving different content is frowned upon by Google, especially if it's done to game their system.

 

mrblackjack

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• Feb 9, 2014

• #3

Cloaking is against Google TOS, whether you target Organic traffic or paid one

 

ATRONOT SEO

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• Feb 9, 2014

• #4

Cloaking is against Google TOS

 

laowai

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• Feb 9, 2014

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Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to human users and search engines. Cloaking is considered a violation of Google's Webmaster Guidelines because it provides our users with different results than they expected.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355?hl=en

 

Automation247

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• Feb 9, 2014

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Yeah, Google don't allow it.

 

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Ambassy

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• Feb 9, 2014

• #7

Serving entirely different content to search engines is against the TOS.
However if you were to slightly vary the content in case you had a SPA it'd be alright.