The article points out some "legitimate" uses of cloaking that Google allows, but which violate their own rules.
I like the idea that was proposed in the article that Google modify their guidelines and allow some controversial techniques. I don't like the permission idea...that could slow things down to a crawl. But to say that a webmaster could use cloaking if the cloaked material were relevant to the site content or contained in the site content to increase rankings would be a good idea to me... Rick -----Original Message----- From: Marty Johll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 9:45 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: search engines Oh, and one other where Google "punished" an internal (Adwords) unit for doing serving up different content to the bot vs user: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1774677,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594 Marty On Apr 5, 2005 8:39 AM, Marty Johll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For more information, here's a slashdot article: > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/31/196220&tid=217 > > > On Apr 4, 2005 4:26 PM, Rick Faircloth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good to know....thanks for the heads up, Dave! > > > > Rick > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 5:15 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: RE: search engines > > > > Someone brought up serving up different content to a bot then to the viewers > > as being a viable solution but wordpress just found out the hard way thats > > not the way to go. > > > > "Google officials declined to comment on why WordPress.org pages had > > dropped from the company's index, but its Webmaster policies bar techniques > > that display different content to its crawler than to site visitors." > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:201492 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
