Technical SEO

Cloaking

Also known as: content cloaking

Showing substantially different content to search engines and users to manipulate results.

A practical example

A crawler receives text inconsistent with the offer customers see.

What should I know?

Ordinary device-specific presentation is not automatically cloaking.

Technical SEO in practice

Check crawler access, server responses, and content processing separately. Then assess indexing and search appearance. These stages are connected but distinct and need different diagnostic methods.

Related Semly features

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Related terms

Black hat SEOPractices designed to manipulate rankings in violation of search policies.Manual actionA restriction applied after a search team manually reviews a policy violation.RenderingProcessing page documents and code into a form that can be viewed or used.

Documentation and further reading

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