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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