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Cloaking

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Author: Colin McDermott

What is cloaking?

Cloaking is the black hat (and not recommended) practice of serving different content to search engine bots/Google than as seen by users.

Cloaking is a technique that is generally still used only by spammers and those with malicious intent.

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