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Dec. 4, 2007 at 3:02pm by Vanessa Fox
Microsoft Reports That Issues With Their Live Search Cloaking Detection System Have Been Fixed
Today, Microsoft has posted to the Live Search Webmaster Center blog that the cloaking detection system they have been running for the past few months has, for some sites, skewed site statistics and ads reporting, as well as caused a high traffic load, and they have made some adjustments to...
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Nov. 28, 2007 at 8:35am by Barry Schwartz
Google's Matt Cutts On Cloaking & Search Snippets
Matt Cutts of Google has written two posts on the topic of SEO: Detecting more “undetectable” webspam The anatomy of a search result...
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Sep. 21, 2007 at 8:28am by Barry Schwartz
First Click Free: Accessing Subscription-Based Articles For Free Via Google News
The Google News Blog wrote about the First click free program that allows publishers to let readers pass registration and subscription barriers, if they come from Google News. I am sure you have seen this in action. You see an article, you click on it from Google News and you...
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Aug. 14, 2007 at 9:31am by Elliance
Search Illustrated: Black Hat Cloaking Explained
Have you ever clicked on a promising search result, only to find that the web page you land on has nothing to do with what you expected, or even worse, is a page of porn or other spam? If so, you may have been the unwitting victim of black-hat...
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Apr. 4, 2007 at 8:49am by Danny Sullivan
Google Website Optimizer Now Available, But Is It Cloaking?
Google Website Optimizer, a tool that allows you to easily test different page layouts, is now available to anyone with an AdWords account. Previously, it had been out in limited beta since last October. It remains unclear whether using the tool would be considered cloaking, which is against Google's webmaster...
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Mar. 4, 2007 at 11:16pm by Danny Sullivan
YADAC: Yet Another Debate About Cloaking Happens Again
Sigh. Double sigh. Triple sigh. I guess now that the SEO industry has had the required twice-yearly debate about the reputation of SEO, it's time to do the go round about cloaking once again. A quick word about cloaking has Google's Matt Cutts trying to clarify concerns that Philipp Lenssen...
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Mar. 1, 2007 at 6:53am by Stephan Spencer
Good Cloaking, Evil Cloaking & Detection
Is cloaking evil? It's one of the most heavily debated topics in the SEO industry -- and people often can't even agree on what defines cloaking. In this column, I wanted to look at an example of what even the search engines might consider "good" cloaking, the middle-ground territory...
