Cloaking

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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• google
• seo
• cloaking

[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?

[Oceanwatcher]

Geolocation is seriously bad for users. What should be used is the settings in the browser. I have my browsers set to get pages in English. Always! I don't care about Portuguese, German, French or whatever when I am travelling. Just because I connect to the internet in a special country does not mean I speak the language. Simply a terrible user experience. The browser setting should ALWAYS override the geolocation.

[MilagroJonathan]

@keithcarberry if the url shortener comes with frames you should stay away from it. most good url shorteners will use good redirects and pass on juice to your site. look for: Do URL shorteners pass anchor text?

[00lucky7]

i feel 80% more intelligent while watching these videos.

[lluqg0g1]

q carajo tas hablando

[ajayspring]

Its Very Helpful

[AreoDj]

"..and everybody is happy" :-)

[JustAskSadie]

Hello... very helpful, thanks

Slightly of topic;- what's the Google thinking on the use of stealth forwarding please? Sadie

[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?

[keithcarberry]

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!

[fusionunlimited]

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