Hey there, I have just asked these two questions, one on flash seo url best practices and one on url redirects for seo in flash, and it got me to read more about cloaking and sneaky javascript redirects. In that cloaking and sneaky javascript redirects article, it says: "Provide the textual contents of JavaScript in a noscript tag....
I can't seem to find any information on how google determines if you are cloaking your content. How, from a technical standpoint, do you think they are determining this? Are they sending in things other than the googlebot and comparing it to the googlebot results? Do they have a team of human beings comparing? Or can they somehow tel...
I have been reading a lot about cloaking and redirects, and am wondering how this fits into rendering and layouts in Rails... Two parts: 1) If I have different data formats to render in (json, xml, html, and iphone), and they all use the same url, differing by the ".format" at the end, is this considered "content duplication"? It seem...
Hi. All recently noticed that PDF documents in Scribd are also SEO friendly for search engines. For example the link http://www.scribd.com/doc/17135767/FREE-by-Chris-Anderson If you open the page and see the HTML source code, the plain text from the PDF is not presented. However if you open the cached version of the page from Google sea...
We have a web site which makes expensive calls to a back end system to display product availability. I'd like to eliminate these calls for page views that are not actual customers. My first thought was to filter on user agent and if the requester is a spider / search engine crawler, to display a "Call for availability" or some such ...
I have a dot-tk (www.dot.tk) domain that redirects to a blog of mine. But I have a problem. If a visitor of the blog who have entered through the tk-redirection, navigates to a specific post or even follows a link that leads elsewhere, then the URL-bar doesn't change to reflect the change. It always show the tk-address only. I want sub-u...
I am using the negative-text-indent technique I learned to show a text-image to the user, while hiding the corresponding actual text. This way the user sees the fancy styled text while search engines can still index it. However I am started to think this sounds like cloaking since I am serving different content to the user vs the spide...
Hi, I have a question re: cloaking. I have a friend who has a business in Canada and the UK. Currently the .ca site is hosted on Godaddy. The co.uk domain is registered (with uk ip address) with domainmonster and is using a cloaked/framed redirect to the .ca site. As a result (my assumption) the .ca site is indexed fine by google, t...
so i read stuff about how apache's mod_rewrite does the trick but it seems to be too vague for beginners like me. lets say i wanted to mask site.com/userpage.php into site.com/ or site.com/userpage or even removing the get requests.. from site.com/userpage.php?query=yes into site.com/userpage.php or site.com/userpage how can i do tha...