Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'cloaking'

A Google Groups thread has discussion around how this webmaster should handle redirecting its web visitor to a localized version of their site, based on the IP address information. Since I recently wrote a comprehensive article at Search Engine Land...

Posted on May 22, 2008 8:09 AM

A Google Groups thread has several smart webmasters aiding a webmaster who found links on his site via the Google cache. In short, the links are not visible when viewing the page in the browser, but they are visible when...

Posted on March 13, 2008 6:21 AM

I noticed an update to the WebmasterWorld thread with the discussion of the weird referrals in the form of spam-like referrals coming from Live Search as cloaking tests. It appears a webmaster is now noticing a bot named MSLIVSOP serving...

Posted on January 14, 2008 7:27 AM

Yesterday we reported that MSNBot failed some reverse DNS tests. In short, if you did a reverse DNS lookup on the IP addresses of their spiders, it would not resolve to search.live.com. The big issue with this is that Webmasters...

Posted on December 6, 2007 7:20 AM

I have been corresponding with Microsoft about the weird spam-like referrals Live Search was sending to hundreds, if not thousands, of web site log files throughout the web. On September 6th, a Microsoft representative confirmed that these were actual tests...

Posted on December 4, 2007 3:00 PM

What would you do if you were targeting UK traffic and a US resident came along? You might, like a WebmasterWorld member, run into a pickle. The user targets UK traffic with AdWords but is also opted into a program...

Posted on November 5, 2007 9:09 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread asks if there's any purpose to the 'noarchive' metatag in Google. Why use it? A few reasons are mentioned: Pages that are constantly updated should not be showing the wrong information in the cache so as not...

Posted on September 19, 2007 9:02 AM

Danny Sullivan's Search Engine Land site has been caught hiding text and performing "poor man cloaking" techniques. A WebProWorld thread called attention to the fact that Search Engine Land was hiding text in a CSS file: text-indent: -9000px; But Danny...

Posted on June 1, 2007 11:44 AM

digg_url='http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/013579.html'; A WebmasterWorld thread links to a post at Agerhart.com showing screen shots of Yahoo! Autos cloaking. Cloaking is when a search bot is given one page of content, while a normal user is given another set of content....

Posted on May 22, 2007 8:05 AM

Often, when you view results from Google News or Yahoo! News you are taken to a site that normally would require you to register in order to view the content. But normally, you can view all the content right away,...

Posted on May 21, 2007 8:18 AM

Shimon Sandler wrote a post named Cloaking An Ecommerce Site where he asks, should you be allowed to cloak your e-commerce site for religious purposes. The situation is that some orthodox Jews shut down their web site on the Sabbath....

Posted on November 8, 2006 11:56 AM

Brian White, part of Matt Cutts webspam team, has joined Search Engine Watch Forums to continue the outstanding Google to Webmaster communication we have seen recently. Brian adds some more detail to our post yesterday on Web Hosts Found Cloaking...

Posted on August 15, 2006 7:11 AM

Web hosts are typically in a very powerful position. One such example is discussed at a Search Engine Watch Forums thread showing how one Webmaster was finding "strange results" in the Google search results pages. The results contained pornographic terms...

Posted on August 14, 2006 7:09 AM