To Cloak or Not to Cloak

[sellportal]

There's cloaking and there's cloaking ...

Your have 2 different "cloakings",

1. The common "hiding" url/link information from the viewer. Like an affiliate link, clickbank link or similar you would like to keep people from seeing. This can be done by redirects, meta refreshes and simpler scripts.

pro : Some protection from affiliate theft and similar. You can make more "sales friendlier" urls and pages.

con : some simple configuration.

2. The high end cloaking. Where in most cases very expensive scripts are used to server search engines one page and visitors another. Very costly and requires quite a bit of technical knowledge in most cases. Plus the risk for searche engines banning your site completely is very high.

pro: can generate insane amounts of traffic and sales

con: more or less everthing else!


My advice is for most people to stay away from cloaking # 2 above until they have deeeep pockets and can pay people for setting up sites as fast as the search engines can ban them

One can go into much more detail about it as it's a very complicated traffic handling question, ethically, moraly and financial ...

Go for # 1!

Kenth

[mullman99]

I don't think the risk is worth it.

Michael

[jgproduct]

You can try urlfreeze. It's free

Jerry