What do you mean by Cloaking?

[varunroy]

Hello Friends,

What do you mean by Cloaking?

 

[RuskinF]

This is what Google has to say about Cloaking:QuickBooks for mac | Azure WVD

 

[eslamnabil]

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

 

[kundancab]

Masquerading is the practice of presenting different content or URLs to human users and search engines. Some examples of Masquerading include: ...providing HTML text pages to search engines while displaying images or Flash pages to users.

 

[Smithwhuk]

Basically cloaking is a black hat method, in this method deliver the content to the search engine spiders is different than what is showing to a visitor's browser. The purpose of this black hat technique is to increase the website's ranking in search engine result pages. In cloaking, the user and search engine crawler are on the same page. But, both are experienced various kinds of contents.