What is cloaking ?
 

Hi there,
I want to know that What is cloaking in SEO?
Is it good for Seo or not?
Many thanks for any sharing.

Cloaking is the technique of hiding main content from the search engine spiders with an intent of boosting your website ranking. In cloaking, you present different content to the user to that of search engine. Content which is presented to the search engine is highly optimized for certain keywords... This content may contain stuffed keywords and backlinks.

It�s a black hat technique and your website might get penalized for it.

Cloaking is a way to establish differing things to the spider and visitors, showing various content to the visitors and letting the crawlers to examine the extra content than detectable by the genuine visitor by some programming or scripting techniques is called cloaking and it is also referred as spamming technique.

To present different content to search engine spider and visitor is called cloaking. It should not be used on any website,google never likes it.

Thanks for putting such an worthy query and discussion here. I had also doubt on this n now i got confirmed.

It represents the different contents at the same time to the user and to the search engine.

Cloaking generally means to present different version of web page contents from of 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.

Find out the full information about Cloaking on this URL
http://www.seomarketingworld.com/seo-faq/cloaking.php

Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to users and search engines. Cloaking can be done in very small scale, such as adding text and keywords that will improve SEO but shouldn't be displayed to human visitors.

Briefly, cloaking is the process of providing the search engine with one set of web coding (usually highly optimized) while the Internet visitor receives a friendlier, more appealing web page...

I heard this word for the first time, and thanks for explaining.

Cloaking is a black hat SEO method. You must definitely not use it and remember it will do your website more harm than any good.

very much quality post thanks for sharing.

cloaking is the black hat technique

i totally agree with you it is black hat technique.

thx very much for sharing with us!

It is un-ethical black hat SEO technique. The programmer writes a content for search engine purpose, but not for the people. Consequently, the search engine sees one content, but visitor sees other content. It's violation of Google webmaster guidelines.

Cloaking is a very very very bad behavior. It is pretending to be who you are not.

It is un-ethical black hat SEO technique. The programmer writes a content for search engine purpose, but not for the people. Consequently, the search engine sees one content, but visitor sees other content. It's violation of Google webmaster guidelines.

It is un-ethical black hat SEO technique. The programmer writes a content for search engine purpose, but not for the people.It's violation of Google webmaster guidelines.

Cloaking, in the context of website SEO and search engine algorithms, refers to the practice of presenting different content to users and search engine crawlers than it does to human visitors