Cloaking in SEO

[RH-Calvin]

What do you mean by cloaking? Is it harmful for your webpages?

[kyotobaths]

Cloaking in SEO is an important technique through which content is extended to the search engine spire is different from the way it is presented to the users. It is a webserver that is programmed to present different content to users and search engines in order to distort the search engine ranking through cloak content.

[BethCarey]

Cloaking in SEO is a way of presenting different content or URLs to human users and search engines and also it is considered illegal.

[Wilsonjacob45]

What do you mean by cloaking? Is it harmful for your webpages?

Basically, cloaking is a black hat technique. In that technique website owners deliver different content to the search engine spiders than what is showing on the website to visitors in the browser. The use of this black hat technique is to increase the website's ranking on search engine result pages.

[grofee]

Cloaking in SEO is a method used to serve users content or information that is different from what is presented to search engine crawlers (i.e. spiders or bots) to improve a website's search engine rankings for certain keywords. Some examples of cloaking include: Serving a page of HTML text to search engines, while showing a page of images to users.

[bigbenunited]

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. In cloaking, the search engine and the user are literally not on the same page. Therefore, both the user and the search engine are being deceived.

[bigbenunited]

Cloaking is a search engine optimization technique. Any of the content or information presented to the user is different from that presented to search engine crawlers for better indexing.

What are the different types of cloaking and how is it done?
User-Agent Cloaking
IP based cloaking
JavaScript cloaking
HTTP_REFERER cloaking
HTTP Accept-language header cloaking

Common ways to implement cloaking in SEO

Invisible or Hidden text
Flash-based Websites
HTML Rich Websites
Replacement of Java Scripts

[gajretreat]

Cloaking in SEO is a technique used to show different versions of your website to search engines and users. In short, it's a deceptive tactic meant to "cheat" the search engine's algorithm by showing the search engine the kind of content it likes to see, even if users see something totally different.

[aasthabeauty]

Cloaking is a black hat SEO technique that involves showing a different version of a website's content to search engines than to users. The goal is to manipulate search engine rankings by satisfying search engine criteria with one version of the content while displaying a different version to users.

Cloaking is one of many black hat SEO techniques, which are designed to exploit weaknesses in search engines. Other black hat SEO techniques include:

Keyword stuffing
Content automation
Sneaky redirect

[DediRock]

Cloaking shows different content to search engines and users, which can result in penalties.

[KyloChan]

Cloaking is showing different content to search engines and users, violating guidelines. Yes, it's harmful as it can lead to penalties or de-indexing by search engines.