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SUB-CATEGORIES:   Related Forum Threads (3) LINKS:  Pages: 1 2 [>>] Cloaking By NPR OK At Google Date: 2004-05-28  Source: Search Engine Report A technique used by National Public Radio to get its audio content indexed by Google seems acceptable to the search engine despite apparently violating its own guidelines about cloaking. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] Why You Should Always Avoid Cloaking Date: 2003-12-15  Source: SEO Today Remember that all search engines today are only concerned with two important things: the relevancy and quality of their search results. Also, you should always remember that it is THEIR search engine and only they make the rules. So, in light of all this, it would be wise for you to completely forget about any kind of cloaking, unless you are willing to take the chance of having your site penalized or banned permanently from the major search engines. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] Are eBay Affiliates Spamming Google with Your Words? Date: 2003-11-03  Source: AuctionBytes.com The fact that eBay is attempting to drive traffic to its site could be viewed as a positive move. After all, some might say, eyeballs are eyeballs. But giving free API access (and free rein) to Affiliate spammers is a questionable move, and seems like a free license to abuse Google's policies. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] Ending the Cloaking Debate, Part 3 Date: 2003-03-12  Source: ClickZ Today, I'll wrap up this series by discussing cloaking in terms of paid inclusion and how to avoid trouble with the search engines. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] Ending the Cloaking Debate, Part 2 Date: 2003-02-26  Source: ClickZ Cloaking: what it is, what it isn't, and why it matters. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] Can you ethically cloak your Web content? Date: 2003-02-12  Source: ElectricNews.net A Web site can use "cloaking" to show search engines different information than it shows to a real visitor. But is it ethical? [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] Ending The Debate Over Cloaking  pop Date: 2003-02-04  Source: The Search Engine Report This article examines why people have traditionally cloaked content from search engines and how the issue is largely now about different standards for paid inclusion content. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] Fantomaster's Perspective on Cloaking, Deception, Search Engines, & SEO Date: 2003-02-03  Source: SearchEthos Like it or not, to go for cloaking means taking some risks, period. Even though these same risks may be wildly inflated in public discussions (they're actually quite remote, as far as we have been able to tell), they are nevertheless quite real, and anyone incurring them should know what they are doing. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] How to Generate Fillertext Content For Your Phantom Pages and Shadow Domains  pop Date: 2002-12-11  Source: fantomaster.com You want to offer pages to the crawlbots they will be really happy with: rich in relevant content, with your targeted keywords or search phrases included at a good keyword density, featured in the page titles, in meta tags, site links, etc. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] Cloaking For Google  pop Date: 2002-11-01  Source: fantomaster.com Don't cloak for Google – they don't like it! :-) However, if you must cloak for Google whatever the reason, take great care to heed the following tips. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] Cloaking: Search Engines Shift Gears Date: 2002-03-30  Source: Search Engine Guide The sentiments expressed by many search engines are simple and to the point: Web sites that cloak will be permanently banned from their search engine databases. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] Building Doorway Domains for Optimized Search Engine Positioning Date: 2001-12-01  Source: fantomaster.com They differ from tread-of-the-mill doorway pages in that they constitute dedicated web sites in their own right - highly focused, very targeted and immensely positionable. On the other hand, they are not identical with mini-sites because human visitors will never get to see them! [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] Cloaking Meta Tags Date: 2001-12-01  Source: fantomaster.com This short tutorial covers the cloaking of web page meta tags, which follows a different procedure than the IP delivery and full page cloaking method commonly employed for high grade stealthing. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] Decloaking Hazards – Why You Should Shun Caching Search Engines Date: 2001-12-01  Source: fantomaster.com While all search engines use caching to build their indices, some of them make a point of displaying cached web pages to their users under the pretext that it offers searchers faster access to a page's content. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] The Google Trap: A Warning Date: 2001-12-01  Source: fantomaster.com If you use Google's proprietary NOSNIPPET meta tag the search results pages will only display your web page's title and the URL. No other page content will be displayed. However, this does not deactivate Google's standard caching function, thus constituting a prime decloaking hazard unless you know exactly what you're doing. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] The Cloaking Revolution Date: 2001-11-07  Source: Search Engine World The current state of cloaking is quite complex. I think it is worth a recap to see where cloaking is at today. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] To Cloak or Not to Cloak? Date: 2001-09-13  Source: Search Engine Watch Love it or hate it, cloaking is the most controversial topic in the world of search engine marketing today. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] Search Engine Cloaking: The Controversy Continues Date: 2001-07-18  Source: Search Engine Watch SearchDay readers sound off on the ethics, practicality and effectiveness of search engine cloaking. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] In Defense of Search Engine Cloaking Date: 2001-07-09  Source: Search Engine Watch Search engines with myopic vision are limiting the Web by enforcing politically correct and stylistically bankrupt policies, according to one disgruntled SearchDay reader. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] Cloaking Types Date: 2001-07-01  Source: Search Engine World There are five different types of cloaking. We run down all 5 in this article. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] What Search Engines See Isn't Always What You Get Date: 2001-06-20  Source: Search Engine Watch Cloaking is a technique used by some webmasters to deliver one page to a search engine for indexing, while serving an entirely different page to everyone else -- in short, the classic bait and switch technique applied to the web. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] Cloaking Overview Date: 2001-04-16  Source: Search Engine World Why and how cloakers using cloaking to their advantage. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] Page Cloaking - To Cloak or Not to Cloak Date: 2001-02-16  Source: Search Engine Guide Find out what page cloaking is, how it is implemented, and whether or not you should actually use page cloaking. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] Cloaking and Security Tips #1: MultiHTML vulnerability - Mail File vulnerability Date: 2000-12-01  Source: fantomaster.com In the first instalment of this series we will discuss two major, albeit little known security vulnerabilities all too common with many web programs. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] Pagejacking Complaint Involves High-Profile Sites Date: 2000-05-12  Source: Search Engine Watch A key element of this case involves "cloaking." In cloaking, a search engine spider is sent a copy of a web page that's different than what a human visitor sees when viewing the same page. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]   Pages: 1 2 [>>]