Don’t buy paid links! Paid links are bad! Don’t cloak either. Search engines don’t allow it. You’ve all heard this before right?>>> What are your thoughts on paid links? Do you agree with Google’s hard line? Comment here…
Yahoo Autos Condemned For Cloaking
The automotive world can get pretty shady, but it still came as a surprise when Yahoo was recently caught “serving keyword stuffed pages to the SE crawlers and regular pages to the average users.” This is known as “cloaking,” and it took place on the Yahoo Autos site.
Will Unison.ie be Banned From Google for Cloaking?
A nice little find by Niall Donegan who discusses Unison.ie cloaking:
A prime example of this is Unison.ie. When searching for current Irish news it usually ranks fairly high on Google, however all the pages require you register first before you view them. The registration gives no advantage to people like me who just want to a quick look at the latest news. I suspect that I’m not alone and that lots of people will just go back and look for another site.
Cloaking Is Bad… Unless It’s Good
The concept of page cloaking has come under fire; again, because the idea is being used by a number of legitimate sites in order to protect or hide their content from users and/or search engine bots. The fact that these sites do not get punished for using cloaking techniques has become a sore spot with some bloggers.
11 Euphemisms for Cloaking
Euphemisms are used in many areas of politics.
Google Caught Cloaking and Keyword Stuffing?
A short while ago, Threadwatch member Adam_C discovered what for all appearances seems to be Google pulling dirty SEO tactics on it’s own pages and thus going against it’s own guidelines in an effort to rank highly within it’s own results.
Retaining Page Rank while Cloaking Affiliate Links
There is no need to give away valuable Page Rank to affiliate programs. You signed up to make money, not to increase their search engine rankings.
Page Cloaking – To Cloak or Not to Cloak
Page cloaking can broadly be defined as a technique used to deliver different web pages under different circumstances. There are two primary reasons that people use page cloaking:
Source Code Cloaking…beauty or beast?
One of the more controversial strategies in search engine positioning is cloaking. But, is it a “beauty” or a “beast” in the world of search engines?