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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Mosaic cloaking: a new form of search engine spam?

Mosaic cloaking

"Webmasters involved in rather shady search engine optimization methods invented a new form of cloaking. That new method has been called mosaic cloaking and it is an attempt to make cloaking less detectable."

Reading this I thought that how will it make less detectable.. so I went ahead with the article

What is cloaking?
Cloaking is a search engine optimization technique in which the content presented to the search engine spider is different from that presented to regular web surfers.

If Google detects that a website uses cloaking, it will remove the website from the index.

What is new in mosaic cloaking?

While traditional cloaking served totally different content to search engines and human web surfers, the new cloaking method replaces only parts of the page.

For example, the blank space on a web page might be filled with keyword rich text when a search engine spider requests a page. The rest of the page remains unchanged.

Read further the full article on free-seo-news.com

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