More in rank in spanish: http://www.acens.com/microsites/openxchange/

Can your core web site get banned by the search engines for cloaking? If that was right, then your competitor could build some cloaked domains and point them to your primary web site so that it would be banned! Reckon of the hurt that would be done if that was at all right. Not a very likely scenario, is it?

So can you really have your “cloaked” domains banned for cloaking? The answer is yes – if, for example, the search engines’ staff have manually checked and compared your spider content with what you are really serving your human visitors. In a worst case scenario a human editor may come along to check the matter out.

On the additional hand, it is highly unlikely that you will get penalized or banned unless some silly campaign build mistake has full house. If a cloaking campaign is implemented professionally and with signal marketing techniques, your probability of being banned are minimal.

Note that I do NOT condone cloaking for misleading purposes: it is counter productive and will only serve to make life more hard for all parties concerned.

So can cloaking be abused? Sure it can! But so are kitchen knives and painkillers. I for my part have never advocated misleading search engine optimization, if only because it’s dumb marketing. There’s no excuse in the world for misleading visitors like that and it certainly doesn’t seem to pay off either, which is why the SERPs is really seeing less and less of such practises these days.

But let’s face realities here: while the search engines may take a strong-arm stance hostile to cloaking in public, they don’t really seem to worry too much in this area it in everyday life, even if they disorder otherwise.

One of the reasons being that there’s so much legitimate cloaking in this area, it would simply be impossible to weed it all out. Else, you might well expect the world’s top 1000 web properties to disappear from the SERPs.

It’s quite vital to realize this fact before fretting in this area the possible penalization of cloaking, as so many clueless SEOs are preaching, without a single physical proof of what they’re claiming to know absolutely everything in this area.

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It works fantastic for me. Maybe you can try it out.