Google, Yahoo and Live search have introduced a great new way to serve linkers different content than other visitors or search engines. Thanks to the rel=canonical tag the search engines are now supporting they will need to implement many new spam detection methods as well.
If you do not yet know about the tag please read Rand Fishkin’s rel=canonical post or the information from Google on the new canonical tag.
Archive for the ‘Cloaking’ Category
Canonical tag creates new legal cloaking possibilities
Thursday, December 25th, 2008How to implement cloaking
Saturday, November 4th, 2006Cloaking is showing search engines other content then human visitors. To use cloaking effectively you need to detect whether your visitor is a searchbot.
In this post I will try to explain…
the process of implementing a cloaking script.
When should I use cloaking?
Friday, October 13th, 2006There are many good and bad ways to use cloaking. Google says there are ways where they approve on its use and they even say a good way to identify the Googlebot is by doing an IP lookup and checking if it is in the googlebot.com domain.
When should you cloak?