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gugo
09-07-2006, 12:10 PM
I know, i know..... The "cloaking" word in the subject will bring lots of people in the forum looking for a discussion about black-white hat seo and wathever, but this is not the objective as you will see....

Why?
Because it seems like the only solution.

Short explanation:

Basically i have a online shop (so i want to sell things) but for access i MUST mount a tunnel (HTTPS) that connect directly to our intranet (also ask for a cookie --> language selection) and then is possible to realize the transactions between the online shop and the internal ERP system.

The access to the web site is via a .JSP? link that i saw that is not recognized by a classical meta tag analyser (any other alternative way to simulate a BOT?)

widexl.com/remote/search-engines/metatag-analyzer. html

After this .jsp? link, redirect you to a monster of 300 letter URL so i think this also cannot help in case of a manual ADD into google ( i tried it and doesnt work).

Due this situation (and is not possible to change this software, due to im the SEO guy not the software designer) it came to my mind the idea of CLOAKING the catalog of products when a bot come. Showing the description of the products and joining the messy links in the plain page

My idea is cloning the catalog inside, but only for information of the products and nothing about transactions.

Using this Tool will bann me and my soul from the google world??

AaronShear
09-08-2006, 05:22 PM
In this case there is nothing wrong with cloaking. The EVIL use of cloaking is to show different content to the search engine that the user see's. Yes the experince is different, but I would personally not beleive that Google would see this as EVIL.