What do you mean by Cloaking?

Cloaking is a technique used to deliver the content on a Web page to a search engine in a way that is different to what the user was looking for.

The purpose of cloaking is to boost a website's search engine rank on certain keywords. Cloaking takes a user to the other sites than what he or she expects by disguising those sites' true content.

Quote from: steveATmadden on March 15, 2019, 05:35:36 AM
What do you mean by Cloaking?

Cloaking means you show one landing page to a certain percentage of the audience, and a different landing page to the rest.

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.

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 refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to human users and search engines. Cloaking is considered a violation of Google's Webmaster Guidelines because it provides our users with different results than they expected.

In SEO, cloaking is a technique for presenting different pages to both search engine crawlers and users. Search engines consider cloaking a black hat SEO technique that violates Google webmaster guidelines because it delivers different results from what the users expected. It displays pages with completely different content and links influencing the website's ranking on SERPs.