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this tag should be use when developing techniques against web crawler or spider web bots

Cloaking is a search engine optimization (SEO) technique in which the content presented to the search engine spider is different from that presented to the user's browser.

this technique also known as stealth, basically consist to deliver one page to a search engine for indexing while serving an entirely different page to everyone else.

When a user is identified as a search engine spider, a server-side script delivers a different version of the web page, one that contains content not present on the visible page, or that is present but not searchable. The purpose of cloaking is sometimes to deceive search engines so they display the page when it would not otherwise be displayed (black hat SEO).

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Simple & Legitimate way to Cloak a URL?

I am not a professional with websites - just an amateur DIY dabbler, so apologies in advance if this is rather simplistic. I have three Wordpress sites. For simplicity, let's say they are widgets.com, blue-widgets.com and red-widgets.com. With…
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One-page website + AJAX + History.js + googlebot

I am building a sliding one-page website with the following structure:
// AJAX action fires on document ready (jquery) and loads ALL pages in here // then I slide to the correct page-panel found…
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Spoofing CNAME in nslookup answer (DNS cloaking)

Is there a way to send custom reply to, for example, livejournal's nslookup request with custom CNAME answer? Example: livejournal sends nslookup request type CNAME to site.com; site.com somehow answers only to livejournals request with "CNAME…
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how to scraped cloaked email from webpage

I am trying to extract contacts information from this website but by looking into "inspect page", I found that all email addresses are cloaked and while trying to scrape these using Python 3.8 script with requests and BeautifulSoup libraries, an…
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JHtml-"email.cloak" doesn't recognize email address when using preg_replace() in joomla

I try to substitute an email-address within a text in a module with php using JHtml::_("email.cloak", "some@email.com"), in order to cloak it on a joomla 3.9.2 webpage. using following sample code:
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How to mask different URLs defined as smarty/php value?

I am a beginner to programming that said I've checked many tutorials and websites for a potential answer to my question. I would like to ask you how can I hide affiliate links (many of which are different) that are dynamic. For example it appears as…
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Doing it right with Google SEO while Dynamically Serving between desktop and mobile

I've read the whole thing here on dynamic serving and I understood that setting the correct-http-headers is the key here! My game plan is simple; I will have a single url as ".com/myApp" and then I will serve my content dynamically. As a result, …
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2 sites each in a different country with 1 set of content (cloaking)

I have a question re: cloaking. I have a friend who has a business in Canada and the UK. Currently the .ca site is hosted on Godaddy. The co.uk domain is registered (with uk ip address) with domainmonster and is using a cloaked/framed redirect to…
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Scribd Search Engine Optimization Features for PDF

All recently noticed that PDF documents in Scribd are also SEO friendly for search engines. For example the link http://www.scribd.com/doc/17135767/FREE-by-Chris-Anderson If you open the page and see the HTML source code, the plain text from the PDF…
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How does rendering different formats/layouts in Rails affect SEO?

I have been reading a lot about cloaking and redirects, and am wondering how this fits into rendering and layouts in Rails... Two parts: 1) If I have different data formats to render in (json, xml, html, and iphone), and they all use the same url,…
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'Cloaked' domain forwarding not working as expected

I've registered a domain with www.domain101.com. We'll call it www.example.com. I used their 'cloaked forwarding' option on my heroku app, which we'll call example.herokuapp.com. If I want to navigate to the posts index page, I would go to…
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Redirect deleted directory/file to a new location using .htaccess

How can I modify my .htaccess to direct users attempting to view old page URLs on our website to the new version? For example: Old non-functioning URL: www.mysite.com/128 New URL: www.mysite.com/this-is-the-new-location/321 I would like…
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redirect external Google Sites URL with masking

I would like to do this. Create a hyperlink that when clicked masks the URL. Example: Displayed site: https://sites.google.com/mybusinesssite.com/customer1/packing URL shows: https://sites.google.com/mytravelsite.com/customer1/packing I've…
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Displaying location based content to googlebot and avoiding cloaking

I have a website that should display different prices for the same item based on the visitors' country. A visitor from the US sees 10 USD, while one from Germany sees 12 euros. I do this using visitors' IPs. However, as Googlebot IP is usually a US…
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How to configure svn to cloak some directories?

There is a nice feature in TFS called cloaking. In this feature, a developer can can determine which folders NOT to be copied in the working folder while checking out the sources. Can Svn support such a thing or not?
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