What is Link Cloaking?

Link cloaking is a method used to make a long affiliate URL link into a shorter and prettier one—often to the detriment of a brand. The first URL clearly identifies the merchant, whereas the second is simply a shorter URL seen more frequently as more and more people use link shortening services

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.

Cloaking is a search engine optimization technique. 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.

Quote from: rajaram on August 24, 2018, 08:12:44 AM
What is Link Cloaking?

Link cloaking is a method used to make a long affiliate URL link into a shorter and prettier one often to the detriment of a brand

Cloaking is a technique used to deliver the content on a Web page to a search engine in such a way that different content than what is delivered to a regular human user appears on the search engine. The goal of cloaking is to boost a website's search engine rank on certain keywords.

Link cloaking is a method used by webmasters to deceive search engine crawlers by presenting different content to the search engine than that which is presented to a user.