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Defiintion of Search Engine Cloaking. Is it Legal? Ethical?
1) Does Cloaking work?
2) How does Cloaking work? 3) Is Cloaking legal and legit? 4) Is Cloaking Unethical? We have all heard the term, but what does it mean? Everytime I ask someone I get some obscure mumble-jumble that just leaves me scratching my head. The mumble-jumble usually ends with something like..Buy It you need it to get ranked by Google! Then I say how does it rank me again? Then it is back the mumble-jumble. The price tags on Cloakers are generally pretty high and before I was going to dish out a couple of bills I want to know exactly what I am getting and that I don't have to be a programmer to install the thing. I have thrown money away on advertising that doesn't work before $5 here, $10 there, and I just chalk it up to experience, but there is no way I am going to invest over $100 for something I can't use! So in my infinite brilliance, I just decided to look up Cloaking on Wikipedia. Low and Behold. There was the definition de-mumble-jumblified. This Quote is taken straight from Wikipedia "In more recent times several well known and well respected sites have taken up cloaking to deliver personalised content to their regular customers. In fact, many of the top 1000 sites - including household names like (amazon.com) - actively cloak. None of these have been banned from search engines purely because of cloaking. Increasingly, for a page without natural popularity due to compelling or rewarding content to rank well in the search engines, Webmasters must design pages solely for the search engines. This results in pages with too many keywords and other factors that might be search engine "friendly", but make the pages difficult for actual endusers to consume. As such, cloaking is an important technique to allow Webmasters to split their efforts and separately target the search engine spiders and endusers. As with anything, this technique can be used responsibly, or less so." Okay four of my major question have just been answered. 1) Does Cloaking work? 2) How does Cloaking work? 3) Is Cloaking legal and legit? 4) Is Cloaking Unethical? 1) I imagine if companies such as Amazon are using this product that is a pretty good indicator. 2) It works by creating a behind the scenes optimized page only visible to search engine spiders. 3) Yes! 4) As long as it is not used for irrevelent content specifically for spamming. Such as cloaking the keyword cookware when you are actually selling porn. (at least I hope these two aren't related!) At this point I decided that yes indeed, I do need this product. I have a website that is new and as great as my product is, it just doesn't get ranked unless you type in the exact name of the site. I know personally when I am looking for a product the first place I go is to the search engines. I type in my key words such as "unique office gifts" and voila the perfect pages with the perfect products are there. Rarely do I ever go to the Traffic Exchanges, Opt-in Email in my Spam Folder, FFA Link Pages, Obscure Classified Ads (well sometimes Craigslist), no I go to the Search Engines either Yahoo or Google and type what I am looking for. And my final question..Can this be used with an affiliate URL? The answer is you can design a web page enabled with Cloaking that will redirect to your affiliate URL. So for example for my main endeavor which is giving away free advertising. I would design a site which I would use the keywords, Free Advertising, Free Targeted Advertising, Free MLM Advertising, Free Afilliate Advertising etc. which would automatically redirect to http://www.hits2u.com/?217437 . (I know cheap plug there!) Anyhow after doing some research I finally found a new company that was offering a special promo offer since they are just starting out. (Yes I became an affiliate so I could purchase the software under my own affiliate ID and get an extra 50% rebate returned to me as my affiliate commission) I am telling you this since I still get a percentage from my first level affiliates which you will be if you do the same thing. Of course I would love you to just sign up at full price but I am not greedy like that! As a fellow on-line marketer I don't want to take advantage as so many people do in this business. http://www.my-online-store.info/affinc/pro.php?id=10006 For the record, no matter what company you decide to sign with they are all selling the same thing. So if you are paying $150 or $500 you are getting the same thing. One last note before you sign up make sure your web hosting server supports PHP it is generally very common but just be sure to double check before you invest. If you do some research on the internet you may actually find some free web hosting that supports this. Here is a list of free hosting companies, I don't know from personal experience so I am reluctant to vouch for any one company. http://www.freebielist.com/webspace.htm So from everything I can surmise. If you have a page to promote on the internet and want your site to get ranked and would like to get a quick and easy jump up on the competition this "Cloaking" is definitely the way to go. $75 ( $150 - $75 Your affiliate payment commission) is the absolutely lowest you will find anywhere. You can search until the cows come home for a lower price, you will not find one! It may seem like a lot but then I think to myself I know I have typed in Free Advertising and Free Classifieds into the search engines before, and then I think is this going to turn over in sales for me? My answer? You Betcha! In fact I will be very surprised if selling this system itself as an affiliate will not generate a profit! The price is right for a product that does the job! Final note: The owner of this company is EXTREMELY helpful! Even offering to set up the system on my server for me. Contact me if you have any questions. Julie Zbeetnoff 213.880.9031 http://www.my-online-store.info/affinc/pro.php?id=10006 |
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