What is Cloaking in SEO?

[neha]

define cloaking in SEO.

 

[tulip]

This techniques is used to black hat seo or for negative SEO.

 

[djohn4204]

Cloaking is a Black Hat seo technique in which the code or contents are hide from a user and deliver different content to a search engine spider. This technique is very important to get good ranking in search engines, but this is the spamming technique.

 

[edwina]

clocking is when a website displays different content to search engines than humans.

 

[360virtualtour]

Cloaking is Black hat seo Techniques .

 

[Anna]

Cloaking is a search engine optimization (SEO) technique in which the content presented to the search engine spider is different from that presented to the user's browser. This is done by delivering content based on the IP addresses or the User-Agent HTTP header of the user requesting the page.

 

[RH-Calvin]

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

 

[adi123]

Cloaking is a black hat technique under which content is presented differently to search engine spiders and end users.

 

[jainteq]

It is considered as one of the best strategy that can come in handy to yield high search engine rankings, by leveraging several domains owned by you.
Clocking is the procedure of using some deceptive techniques which allows the user with a several version of the website than that presented to the search engines.

 

[manogua]

Hey guy!
This thread will tell you more : http://www.ewebdiscussion.com/search-engine-optimization-seo/24733-what-is-cloaking.html

 

[MyBae]

It is un-ethical black hat SEO technique. The programmer writes a content for search engine purpose, but not for the people.

 

[min]

Cloaking is a search engine optimization (SEO) technique in which the content presented to the search engine spider is different from that presented to the user's browser. This is done by delivering content based on the IP addresses or the User-Agent HTTP header of the user requesting the page. When a user is identified as a search engine spider, a server-side script delivers a different version of the web page, one that contains content not present on the visible page, or that is present but not searchable. The purpose of cloaking is sometimes to deceive search engines so they display the page when it would not otherwise be displayed (black hat SEO). However, it can also be a functional (though antiquated) technique for informing search engines of content they would not otherwise be able to locate because it is embedded in non-textual containers such as video or certain Adobe Flash components. As of 2006, better methods of accessibility, including progressive enhancement, are available, so cloaking is no longer necessary for regular SEO.