What is Cloaking ?
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Cloaking generally means to present different version of web page contents from search engines to search robots and human visitors based on their browser's user agent or IP address. It's a deceptive method used to cheat search engines in order to rank well for desired keywords.
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All shares a valuable thoughts over here. It's really good info that explains me quite well about cloaking. These posts cleared my doubts shortly.
Great thread!
Being new to the forum I found it a interesting read, despite it having been asked before :s
I maybe wrong, but think that methods change over time so it is not always a bad idea to re-discuss the same thing at a later point. That gives new guys like me a change to a head start which we really appreciate
Thanks
Being new to the forum I found it a interesting read, despite it having been asked before :s
I maybe wrong, but think that methods change over time so it is not always a bad idea to re-discuss the same thing at a later point. That gives new guys like me a change to a head start which we really appreciate
Thanks
I read this elsewhere and it slipped to the back of my mind.
Thanks for highlighting this!
Cloaking is a script that is used to hide your affiliate links. Or to approve the ads in Facebook or adwords. it has option to block Specific IPs from going to the affiliate link. it can block by browser or agent or by refferal. So if you use cloaker for facebook then they will see the landing page legit one and other visitors will see the affiliate link. thats how cloaker works. thanks hope i helped you.
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Well, as memory serves me right, it takes 25 energy to cloak ghosts, wraith in starcraft brood wars, if you get emp'ed you are fucked
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I think cloaking is one of a black hat SEO trick..
What is Xenesthad is referring to is "link cloaking" or referer hiding. I personally don't call that cloaking. link hiding is easy. its just rewriting a url. nothing fancy.
Real cloaking is much more advanced then link cloaking. With cloaking you are delivering different content to for example a spider bot and a real website visitor. There are many different ways to do some proper cloaking. Usually its IP and User agent based. But you can also cloak geolocation, organization and other identifiers like behavior. If you plan to do cloaking I would advice you to do some extensive reading and testing. Bots, spiders, manual reviewers change their tactics all the time to catch the cloaked sites. Therefore there are not many (seo, ppc) cloackers out there, because the risk of being slapped is high.
FYI Any technique you can find here is propably already known by G. So be creative. They probably also learned here about it first. Or any other blackhat forum.
Thanks for sharing. I am not too sure about this as well before.
So can I say using of proxies is also consider link cloaking?
Yes. From my understanding after reading the thread.
This is definitely blackhat.