What is Clocking in SEO ?

[Webxeros]

Please Explain

[garima93]

Cloaking is a technique used to deliver the content on a webpage to a search engine in a way that is different to what the user was looking for.

[Dani]

Do you mean cloaking? As in when you show one thing to your end users but something else to search bots?

[spihu]

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.

[sophiawils59]

Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to human users and search engines. Cloaking is considered a violation of Google’s Webmaster Guidelinesbecause it provides our users with different results than they expected.

[Hasan_11]

Well, cloaking is a search engine optimization technique in which the content, that is being presented to the user is different from that presented to search engine crawlers that is spiders or bots for better indexing of a website. Some of the examples of cloaking includes:

Serving a page of HTML text to search engines, while showing a page of images to users.

Inserting text or keywords into a page only when the user is requesting the page is a search engine.

Cloaking is basicallyimplemented in order to improve the search engine ranking by misleading the search engine robot into the content on the page which is different than it really is. It is often used as a spamdexing technique to try to trick the search engine into giving the relevant site a higher ranking.

I hope this answer helps you.