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Cloaking in SEO is a black hat technique that is used to appeal to search engines by showing them what they want to see while human users see different content. This is used to trick search engines or mislead visitors to a page. This black hat technique can be used to achieve higher rankings, redirect visitors to other websites, infect users computers with malware, mislead potential competitors, or solve quick SEO issues instead of dealing with up to date procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


There are multiple ways of cloaking in Search Engine Optimization. The first one is IP-based cloaking. This is when you present a different web page version depending on the user’s IP address. The second is User Agent cloaking. This process is when a bot visits a page and gets sent to a different page. A separate page appears to have these bots view alternate content. The third type is HTTP Header Cloaking. This allows the server to tell who is visiting the website based on HTTP headers. You are able to check these headers to tell if a visitor is a real person or a bot. The fourth type is GeoIP cloaking. This is when you can tell a visitor’s location by using the cookie info, login details, IP, or GeoIP addresses. This allows certain searches to have different information to get presented depending on the user’s location. The next one is referrer cloaking. This is when the content is different depending on what link is clicked to reach your website. Each link can lead to different results for the user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Cloaking is just one example of Black Hat SEO. All these different types of cloaking can lead to penalties or even removal of your page from Google’s search engine result page. To improve your rankings White Hat SEO techniques must be made to your website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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