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Showing different content to Google and visitors is genuinely against Google's webmaster guidelines. It will get you delisted. It's known as cloaking. https://
by Kye 6y ago
Showing different content to Google and visitors is genuinely against Google's webmaster guidelines. It will get you delisted. It's known as cloaking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaking
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355?hl=en https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355?hl=en
- lovemenot 6y ago>> It's bad luck to return something different to GoogleBot than what regular people see. It's [against policy] to return something different to GoogleBot than what regular people see. The facts are on your side, but GP's language choice remains interesting. Not right now perhaps, but down the road?
- Kye 6y agoI can't tell if this is a bit where you play the oblivious pedant, or if you can't tell they were referring to this policy. Either way, I don't think they were suggesting some cosmic influence.
- lovemenot 6y ago@Kye No pedantry from here. I had already understood the policy. So this comment wasn't about the policy, it was all about the language. You seem to wish to understand, so ... It was a pretty wide tangent from the start. I imagine (perhaps incorrectly) that it may eventually become common for people to understand algorithm-lore as say the Runes were once understood. I interpreted the language used here as a harbinger.
- wolco 6y agoGoogle also sends google-bot without the header. If it notices different content it will take the public version as truth. So many people are doing this but not getting delisted. Not sure how solid a rule it still is.