website cloaking

[sarahbrooks]

There are two different types of web site cloaking:
1. IP Cloaking: IP Cloaking is based on the IP address of the visitor (Search Engine Spider or Human). When the web page is requested the cloaking software checks the visitor’s IP address. If the IP belongs to a search engine spider, a highly optimized plain HTML keyword intensive page is served to the search engine spider for indexing. If the IP address is “human”, your normal web page is served for viewing.
2. User Agent Name Cloaking: Agent name cloaking does exactly the same thing as IP cloaking accept the “user agent name” of the visitor is used to determine if the page request is being made by a search engine spider or a human visitor. Each search engine reports an “agent” name, just as each browser reports a name, if the visitor is a search engine, they get the search engine specific page.
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[jasonbridd]

You have good information and I think clocking is concern to black hat SEO and it is not good for long time run. It is helpful for crawl and hide your real page from web spiders but you should conscious about it it would be cause for banned your site.

[lisapeter]

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. When a user is identified as a search engine spider, a server-side script delivers a different version of the web page, one that contains content not present on the visible page, or that is present but not searchableWebsite Cloaking travels under a variety of alias including Stealth, Stealth scripts, IP delivery, Food Script, and Phantom page technology.