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Well the title says it all. Can Search Engines Really Detect Cloaking?
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Posted 26 August 2007 - 11:26 AM
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Posted 28 August 2007 - 05:07 AM
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First I had to figure out what cloaking was:
To answer your question I think it is possible. I know that on this forum I could allow the Google Bot to access pages that normal users could not. Experts-exchange.com does it. Google will scan and catch the entire page but if you click on the link all of the text is blurred out.
Cloak: Something which hides, covers or keeps something else secret. (Cambridge Dictionary)
Cloaking: Also known as stealth, a technique used by some Web sites to deliver one page to a search engine for indexing while serving an entirely different page to everyone else. The search engine thinks it is selecting a prime match to its request based on the meta tags that the site administrator has input. However, the search result is misleading because the meta tags do not correspond to what actually exists on the page. Some search engines ... even ban cloaked Web sites. (Webopedia)
Web Site Cloaking and Search Engines - webreference.comTo answer your question I think it is possible. I know that on this forum I could allow the Google Bot to access pages that normal users could not. Experts-exchange.com does it. Google will scan and catch the entire page but if you click on the link all of the text is blurred out.
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Posted 03 September 2007 - 11:56 AM
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Nice info jordan.
I dont know whether search engine can detect it or not but I was looking at a site today and I found that cloaking is used to fake page rank.
I dont know whether search engine can detect it or not but I was looking at a site today and I found that cloaking is used to fake page rank.
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Posted 03 September 2007 - 02:37 PM
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No, not to fake PR that is something else.
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Posted 05 September 2007 - 08:18 AM
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Better be careful with this.
Google promises to Ban! (Presenting one webpage to the search engine spider, and another webpage to everybody else.)
Google promises to Ban! (Presenting one webpage to the search engine spider, and another webpage to everybody else.)
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Posted 05 September 2007 - 11:23 AM
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No, no I am NOT and have NO intend in using this Black Hat Method. I don't need to, I already have a website showing on first page of Google so I know how to do this, but this time for my business directory the competition is bigger but still I dont need any black hat SEO to do it....
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Posted 21 October 2007 - 12:20 PM
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I'm not sure cloaking is easily detectable, but if an SE ever finds out you're doing it, you're out.
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Posted 27 October 2007 - 03:44 PM
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Well after achieving what I achieved I will not use such hacks.. although I never panned to. It's not work the risk and all.
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Posted 28 October 2007 - 06:14 PM
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I'm sorry, but I wasn't really able to understand what that page was talking about. So what is cloaking?
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Posted 29 October 2007 - 06:32 AM
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Well is is creating a bunch of pages and show them to the search engines.. instead of your real content.
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Posted 29 October 2007 - 08:14 AM
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Hey there,
Like people have said above, cloaking is used to display a different webpage to the search engines than ordinary users see.
Why do people do it? It is to manipulate search engine results and that is why it is frowned upon.
Can search engines detect it? Well, who knows but why take the chance? Search engines are getting smarter every day - especially google. If they can not detect it already, who says they will not be able to in the future.
Can other people detect it? If they can, who says they will not report your website to google, especially if the person who detects it is a competitor?
Either way, if google knows about it one way or the other, your site is going to be banned - no question about it.
My advice is to stay away from all black hat methods. Why waste time with that when people can create quality content and get quality backlinks? :)
Sincerely,
Travis Walters
Like people have said above, cloaking is used to display a different webpage to the search engines than ordinary users see.
Why do people do it? It is to manipulate search engine results and that is why it is frowned upon.
Can search engines detect it? Well, who knows but why take the chance? Search engines are getting smarter every day - especially google. If they can not detect it already, who says they will not be able to in the future.
Can other people detect it? If they can, who says they will not report your website to google, especially if the person who detects it is a competitor?
Either way, if google knows about it one way or the other, your site is going to be banned - no question about it.
My advice is to stay away from all black hat methods. Why waste time with that when people can create quality content and get quality backlinks? :)
Sincerely,
Travis Walters
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Posted 29 October 2007 - 03:05 PM
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Black hat methods work immediately but sites will probably die within six months, as in, banned from search engines. If you have the resources to quickly create websites, then black hat is for you (but it's not ethical).
