Cloaking

[@GoogleSearchCentral]

Subscribe to Google Search Central Channel → goo.gle/SearchCentral

[@yadion]

It's amazing that Matt Cutts is re-pushing this the day after the distilled conference in NY.

[@svommams566]

You can set it up such that / on your domain redirects, but /index.html does not redirect. Then you can add links allowing the users to choose a specific version of the website, and have those link to the relevant site's index.html file.

[@dev4lifetime]

The way I understand it, is that you should have a link to the Spanish version from the English version of your site so that Googlebot can visit it later

[@lemannequin]

To clarify (and because there wasn't space for more characters). Most users (those with JS enabled or a particular user agent) will get the basic page that will get some enhancents during loading/rendering time. Other visitors (those with JS disabled, or GoogleBot) will get the basic page, with the relevant/expected content, without all the other extra elements (navigation, links to related content, etc)

[@KeithCarberryreal]

so, it seems to me that a short url service is not good either? especially if it comes with a frame? I think I may have missed something here... I need to to study this a bit more... very interesting though thank you!

[@stanleycrox]

@adithecool huum, then the user will be redirected again when clic on the Spanish site. Do you mean to disable the redirection if the user comes through the link and not redirected if is coming directly? it's a bit weird no?

[@SadieMichaelaHarris]

Hello... very helpful, thanks Slightly of topic;- what's the Google thinking on the use of stealth forwarding please? Sadie

[@webtrainings]

Is sending the user based on IP, is consider as cloaking ?

[@markgoat702]

Hello sir, You did not explain one particular thing: What if our website is purely ajax based with no graceful degradation, and when we detect a Googlebot we serve it an HTML page which is equivalent to what the a user would see after the ajax calls have loaded his page? Specifically, do things like "Seoserver" fall into the "Cloaking" category? Seoserver link: github.com/thomasdavis/seoserver "Seo Server is a command line tool that runs a server that allows GoogleBot(and any other crawlers) to crawl your heavily Javascript built websites. Seo Server runs PhantomJs(headless webkit browser) which renders the page fully and returns the fully executed code to GoogleBot."

[@iamkevinthecanadian]

If I have a version of my site for text-only browsers (Lynx, w3m) that I serve based on user-agent, is it alright if I add the GoogleBot UA to that list? Or do you always want the desktop version. It seams silly that I have to render it in something like phantomjs when the text only page has the same content just presented differently.

[@powerzx]

You are wrong, there is a white hat cloaking and it is very important. For example. If I hide admin panel from evil google bot, so nobody knew my directory structure and the file names (except me) then my website is more secure from attacks.

[@stanleycrox]

Hi, If Googlebot crawls only from US. How can crawl a Spanish Website that redirects to the english version? In this case the Spanish Website is kind of invisible? or what?

[@dsd2918]

But what about Cloaking Affiliate Links ?? If user lands on a specific page he was finding for and he likes the product OR service on that particular page and then clicking on the link on that page the user lands on the other page with relavent content and make a purchase. If any one can answer it ?? Please help.

[@Carebearus]

Hi Matt, the last comment you made regarding the litmus test for "power user kind of thing" did not answer the question fully if you would be in a high risk area. Our UX team ofter has questions about testing and having navigation hidden on certain pages through JS when a page loads. This would not be attempting to Spam Google or influence rankings, but to A/B test user interaction w/in our site limitations. Would this still be considered cloaking and therefore bad?

[@AJMihalic]

Why no mention of multivariate & A/B testing? Based on the definition of "cloaking" above, then any testing program like "Adobe Test & Target" will be considered cloaking, as they intentionally exclude Google from their tests.

[@chris-palmer]

I loved Matt's style of talks , I miss Matt ! #chrispalmerseo

[@svommams566]

I have a page which rendered incorrectly in the Google preview of the page because of the way Googlebot spend several days crawling some dynamic content, which a browser would donwload in a matter of seconds. In the end I made a special case for Googlebot in order to get it to see something more like the user would see. Is that considered cloacking?

[@ShawnKHall]

IE7? What year was this video made?

[@luciferball666]

You could ajax content loads instead of redirects.

[@asmartbajan]

Matt, In the not too distant future, I'm hoping to get into internet marketing in a big way. As such, I've found this video to be quite useful and informative. (Actually, that applies to all of your videos I've viewed so far.) It goes without saying that I've both "liked" this video and subscribed to your channel! Keep 'em comin'!

[@SolomonUcko]

What about the Accept-Language header? Not everyone in a given country necessarily speak's that countries language very well. Tourists are a good example. IP address is a decent backup *if* there is no Accept-Language header or it contains no available languages.

[@dfabulich]

It's really disappointing that this video doesn't mention Google's "First Click Free" program (which requires you to check for the useragent "Googlebot") or Google's AJAX Crawling specification, which lets you return HTMLified JavaScript just for Googlebot.

[@dae2530]

7:11 The best 30 seconds.

[@ProBloggingCourse]

Great comments!

[@shawnmofid7131]

The sound volume is a bit low.

[@MidwestDIY]

having random chuck norris facts in your keywords, guarantees top SERP.

[@dae2530]

What if I send you a bit different version just to make it easier to parse? I'm not gonna put different text, images, links. How to promote a website the best way? I'm not gonna trick your bot to put my website higher.

[@eversparkinteractive]

Simply stated, just treat each webpage as though a real human will view it.

[@davidlittle3002]

This doesn;t pertain to Google,but I find annoying that Canada who spells like the U.K.does not have an option in which it appears your from the U.K. not Canada,or the other choice is to appear like an American.Either way Canadians appear to be from somewhere else and the equivalent of Google Bot is given false info.

[@arimcbrown]

Very useful, though a bit too long on topic.

[@SolomonUcko]

Also, why are you mentioning IE instead of Chrome?

[@korukondaSitaram]

do you have any example video for cloacking

[@lakandoor1007]

very helpful. IE7 was never standardized box model ... ;-)

[@AmitKumarMondal]

Nice informative video.

[@toddwhitelow4752]

This was very helpful thanks!

[@AmitKumarMondal]

Thanks for it

[@allenwest1986]

>>> GOOGLE If I'm uploading a file while you are scanning my site will it mistake it for Cloaking ?

[@misterpaijo266]

Hi ,sorry out of topic, i want to ask, how to out from google sandbox? Everybody please reply my ask .

[@AjayJhappcmaster]

Its Very Helpful

[@positivethoughtsforlife4878]

Thanks sir for your valuable information

[@tianyuanmeng7901]

If I search cartoon and end up with a new porn site, I would be like MUHAHAHAHA

[@RinaldoJonathan]

Googlelandia 😂😂

[@AreoDj]

"..and everybody is happy" :-)

[@mihwoo]

tnx, познавательно и поучительно +1

[@JosephAsamoah]

Nice video but it does not go into detail how to actually cloak lol

[@dero8808]

Google has extensive guidelines how to do this. Please google. LoL.

[@Potenti4lz]

lol, now Chrome just translates language client side :D 2011 tch tch.

[@hab1b1]

Since Googlebot crawls from the US. you'd be treating googlebot and the user the SAME way: you would be redirecting them to the english version. As long as they are the SAME experience, it isn't cloaking

[@IvanStojanovicIrishRecruiter]

Is it me or Matt looks quite young in this video?

[@fusionunlimited]

nothing about showing content behind paywalls/registration to crawlers. so not quite definitive :-)

[@griffinsbridge]

Matt swears @ 5:25

[@hopersolution]

i have been cloaking for 10 years now without any issue

[@bhuwandahal1946]

GoogleBot HAPPY! i am also HAPPY! And Googlelandia is also happy.. Thank You.😂😂

[@MsDollarplus]

Круто!

[@lluqg0g1]

q carajo tas hablando

[@dailycrazytv]

Porn and cartoons its same thing. hahah

[@GyprockGypsy]

I'm here for the story about the paper clip. Where's the god damn paper clip? I think we're talking about 2 different types of cloaking...

[@NarasimhamKrovvidi]

To cover the nonworking and diverting the real issues these useless and unnecessary contaversies are brought into forefront. Otherwise what purpose is served and what gain is made by these roumermongers

[@briand759]

porn SEO and chuck norris meta tags are a win!!!!!!!! :D

[@TheRealBosquet]

I watched this cause I thought he was gonna talk about invisibility...whoops

[@aryanshah6355]

Great video #GoogleIndia