Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Black Hat SEO, Cloaking
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Excerpt: Since I got my 10 links, I can now post again. Needless to say, until then, I had a bit of free time. What do you think I was doing?Let me tell you. I decided to do an objective investigation as to whether cloaking is alive and well in "the" Google image search. It ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Cloaking
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Excerpt: Matt Cutts reaffirmed his distaste for cloaking in his most recent videos over here. However, I still fail to see a problem with cloaking used ethically, and every time I think of an ethical use I post it on this blog.Chris Boggs posts here that he implemented load-balancing for a web site via ...
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Excerpt: This class can be used to detect where a site visitor is located and tailor their page content accordingly. For example, you may want to say "We surrender!" for French users, instead of the usual "Hello." No offense to Frenchies of course; but I had to poke some fun t ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, PHP, Cloaking
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Excerpt: Someone commented on my last post that there is a way to achieve some of what I stated as a goal in the previous post without cloaking. He said:"Only create the session IDs in the URL when either one already exists, or when the user does something to prompt it (and make sure robots don ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Cloaking
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Excerpt: This post is an answer to those who have criticized my unabashed advocation of cloaking as an ethical practice. I maintain that cloaking, in quite a few cases, is necessary, and far from unethical or black hat. Here is just one example of the many I will cite over the coming weeks:Cloaki ...
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Excerpt: Since Google has decided that cloaking, in fact, is not against the rules (not really, make sure you click that link), I have decided to post my simple cloaking toolkit written in PHP. I cannot support this thing, so please don't bombard me with emails. If you're very p ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Cloaking
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Excerpt: I've been digesting this for awhile. Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable writes that the New York Times is cloaking content in the interest of faciliating Google "to access, crawl, index and rank content that would require a username and password by a normal Web user.&quo ...
