what is Cloaking in SEO?

**hooda** · Jul 28th, 2011, 7:13 am

Dear all,
I have listen about cloaking, but i don,t know meaning and practically, if anyone know about it, please describe me with example?

**wedhooz** · Jul 28th, 2011, 8:00 am

do you mean cloaking like this one?
http://www.abcseo.com/seo-book/cloaking.htm

if yes, then don't even think about it..

**PayDay Loan** · Jul 28th, 2011, 10:53 pm

Cloaking is a process where the Content provided to the Search Engine Spider is different from the Content which is presented on the website by the user.It is an Black Hat SEO technique and should be avoided during the SEO.

**sarah2002** · Aug 1st, 2011, 2:14 am

Cloaking is commonly referred to as a black hat or unethical, SEO practice. Cloaking consists of deceiving search engine crawlers by directing them to web pages that are not actually visible on the domain that the crawlers are trying to analyze. Usually, these false pages are loaded with keyword rich content and search engine optimization designed to boost the search results ranking of the web page.

**undertaker** · Aug 2nd, 2011, 5:36 am

Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to users and search engines. Serving up different results based on user agent may cause your site to be perceived as deceptive and removed from the Google index.

Some examples of cloaking include:

* Serving a page of HTML text to search engines, while showing a page of images or Flash to users.
* Serving different content to search engines than to users.