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Old 08-19-2008, 03:50 PM
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Default Re: Google and Cloaking

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Originally Posted by Orion View Post
cloaking usually refers to hiding code so that there's no view source, when you do that some solutions hide the code from the search bots too.. thus showing the text in the browser to the viewer but the search bots see nothing...
Users and bots see exactly the same content. Only the position of the code for the users and the SE is different.

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I have a couple of clients that purchased and use software to do that for a few pages in their sites for security reasons, really helps with the spambots too.... I did learn that you have to be very careful which ones you use though, the majority now seem to be alright for the search bots none of their pages or sites are penalized etc. most of them are set up not to be indexed in the engines anyway (robot.txt) and it's done alright.
No problems man. We have created the script ourselves with a lot of care.

So, we are not hiding a single letter from users or bots. Are we ok so far?
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