|  | Posted by Brian Dunning on 08/12/05 01:30 
What is the best way to cloak a site - send search engines different  content than real users?
 
 Yes, I know it's bad practice, and I know the domain will eventually
 be banned. I've found lots of different methods including huge tables
 of all the possible client types sent by various spiders. I postulate
 that the simplest/fastest way to do it, and no less reliably, would
 be to simply consider any user whose client type includes "msie",
 "netscape", or "safari" to be a person, and let the rest go.
 
 Anyone have any practical experience with success that they'd like to
 share? I know there are plenty of negative stories and reasons NOT to
 do those but no need to take up the bandwidth with that; heard 'em
 already.  :)
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