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this tag should be use when developing techniques against web crawler or spider web bots

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 technique also known as stealth, basically consist to deliver one page to a search engine for indexing while serving an entirely different page to everyone else.

When a user is identified as a search engine spider, a server-side script delivers a different version of the web page, one that contains content not present on the visible page, or that is present but not searchable. The purpose of cloaking is sometimes to deceive search engines so they display the page when it would not otherwise be displayed (black hat SEO).

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is a negative text-indent considered cloaking?

I am using the negative-text-indent technique I learned to show a text-image to the user, while hiding the corresponding actual text. This way the user sees the fancy styled text while search engines can still index it. However I am started to think…
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How does Google Know you are Cloaking?

I can't seem to find any information on how google determines if you are cloaking your content. How, from a technical standpoint, do you think they are determining this? Are they sending in things other than the googlebot and comparing it to the…
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Would this be considered black-hat cloaking?

In my newly developed ecommerce site, where I sell tires, I have a tire-finder page. This is essentially the page where you find your product and go to the specific product page. I wanted it all to be real nice and modern with javascript form and…
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Hiding off screen SVG elements

I'm using D3 to render a few hundreds of svg elements. However, only few of them are visible simultaneously in the viewport. So I thought possibly I could gain a performance boost by removing those elements which are off screen and recreate them…
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Facebook's BigPipe and SEO : Cloaking?

I'm quite interested in the Facebook's BigPipe technique for improving user experience when displaying web pages. The downside is that this is heavily Javascript-based, and not at all search-engine friendly. When developing a similar technique on my…
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Eliminating Expensive Back End System Calls and SEO

We have a web site which makes expensive calls to a back end system to display product availability. I'd like to eliminate these calls for page views that are not actual customers. My first thought was to filter on user agent and if the…
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Legitimate URL Cloaking for SEO?

I have just asked these two questions, one on flash seo url best practices and one on url redirects for seo in flash, and it got me to read more about cloaking and sneaky javascript redirects. In that cloaking and sneaky javascript redirects…
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Showing date and time by visitor's computer time zone

I want my wordpress posts and comment date and time to be converted to visitors computer time zone. That way user should know what exact time post or comment was created by his local time. I know that cloaking is bad seo practice when you show…
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Virtual Destructor needed when using Cloaking pattern?

If I have the following 3 classes to hide the data type and store information, do I need a virtual destructor? I was led to believe no, but now I am not sure. I would rather not include it if possible for preformance reasons. Classes stripped down…
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how to set page title on about:blank website

I am making a school game unblocker website and am using about:blank cloaking. I need to add a title to the about:blank site so that teachers won't see what I am on. This is the code for the redirection.
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TFS 2010 cloaking in the build definition file - error

I am using TFS 2010, and I am trying to test the cloaking functionality. I have nearly identical build definition files for each environment (dev, qa, prod) - they only differ (for testing purposes) in that I want to cloak a particular directory for…
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What is cloaking

First I think I understand what cloaking is, but what is it in detail? My problem: I've a webapp created using wavemaker, so it's full of javascript and ajax calls. Therefore the google crawler can't see any of my content. My idea is now to make a…
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Cookiewall and content cloaking

To comply with the European cookie law, we should implement cookie wall. But search engines should be able to see and index actual page content not cookie wall. Searching online I found that many people recommend checking user-agent and feeding…
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TFS: Cloaking multiple elements from command line

Suppose we have a folder $/myProject/myFolder on the TFS server which contains some files and sub-folders. Is there any possibility to iteratively cloak every element under this folder (not recursively) using the tf.exe command line utility? I can't…
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How do I cloak multiple folders at a time in Team Foundation Server?

I am following the recommended guidance for Team Foundation Server by mapping the root of the source control tree to a local folder. However, I do not want to map every folder underneath that root. I can cloak one folder at a time, but would…
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