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Default Re: Google and Cloaking

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Originally Posted by activeco View Post
OK, to continue from here:


Yes, it will. What bots get is not exactly the same page as a regular browser gets and that is a typical cloaking.
Unlike when using (i)frame where the html+content of that page remains exactly the same. For now, content of the linked page is not important in this case.
The content of the linked page is important. That is what I would hide with an IFRAME, disallowing bots to follow the target though a noindex meta tag or robots.txt.

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P.S. Currently your setup returns 403 for active.html, which was probably not what you wanted.
What is the difference if I would disallow the bots accessing a page with robots.txt or with a 403?
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