What is cloaking?

[zaibnisa5000]

I want to know what is cloaking and is it legal way to rank website or not ?

[excellencecode]

Cloaking is a seo technique which shows different contents to users and search engine for the purpose of ranking. Actually, it is a black hat seo technique and Google will penalize such websites.

[matthogan]

Cloaking is a search engine optimization (SEO) technique in which the content will be presented to the search engine spider is different from that presented to the user's browser. Cloaking is one of the black hat technique. If Google has found that website is doing Cloaking, website will be penalized.

[Davidkumar]

Hi,
clocking is a off page techniques , this is for black hat seo and doing clocking getting penalty your websites.

[wipaq]

Cloaking is one of the Black Hat SEO technique used to cheat the search engines by presenting two different content for the purpose of ranking.