Mark W. Shead » Web http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mwshead Musings of Mark Shead Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:26:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Cloaking http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mwshead/2006/11/24/cloaking/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mwshead/2006/11/24/cloaking/#comments Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:07:39 +0000 Mark Shead http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mwshead/2006/11/24/cloaking/ There is an interesting discussion going on at Digital Point about WebmasterWorld’s cloaking setup. Basically if you click on a result in Google for WebmasterWorld, you get sent to a login page, where they suggest you pay for a membership and very small type where you can login for free.  So basically the average user gets a login screen and the googlebot gets the actual page content.

There has been a bunch of talk about this, but I have yet to see anyone from Google say it is ok.  Of course WMW is fairly well known so you’d think if there was a problem it would have been noticed by now.  If this is ok, it is a great way for people to get more subscribers to their website–show the results in Google, but don’t let them see it until they sign up.

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