What is cloaking:

[ciacademy]

Cloaking is black hat SEO technique in which web page content is not visible to the visitor. That is only for search engine spider. But it is harmful for the website.

 

[sadianisar]

Cloaking is a Black Hat SEO technique in which both users and web crawlers are shown with different contents.

 

[arindamdutta16]

Google cloaking is a website that returns altered WebPages to search engines crawling the site. In other words, a human reading the site would see different content or information than the Googlebot or other search engine robot reading the site. Most of the time, cloaking is implemented in order to improve search engine ranking by misleading the search engine robot into thinking the content on the page is different than it really is.

 

[kumarvikas]

Practicing of Presenting different content or URLs to the users and search engines too called Cloaking.