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[pavit Moderator pavitJoin date: September 2007Posts: 15749Downloads:199Uploads:2274 Thanks: 417 Thanked: 4028 times in 3778 posts]

#412888

<em>@jdokuchitz 267934 wrote:</em><blockquote>i am new to joomla.just started working on first SEO project on joomla site.can any one help me how to cloak an url on joomla site?</blockquote>

Hi you can try to take a look here http://extensions.joomla.org/
this site have plugin and extensions such as this http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/structure-a-navigation/site-links/7231

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1. evelyn8411

[pavit Moderator pavitJoin date: September 2007Posts: 15749Downloads:199Uploads:2274 Thanks: 417 Thanked: 4028 times in 3778 posts]

#413208

I don’t know exactly, but i think it’s not a standard SEO technique

For standard i mean the most used and approved technique

[mammam Friend mammamJoin date: August 2011Posts: 5Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#414955

Sure cloaking is a kind of black hat SEO. Google will penaltize any website using black hat SEO.

[jdokuchitz Friend jdokuchitzJoin date: September 2011Posts: 1Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#415166

Thanks for that 🙂

Really? will google penalize me 🙁 hmmm…. I think I’ll do more research on it then.

[yellowrain87 Friend yellowrain87Join date: August 2011Posts: 8Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#415170

I think there’s a little misapprehension by mammam 🙂
URL cloaking is different from content cloaking. Of course, content cloaking is a black-hat SEO technique that is used to trick search engines by showing two different contents. The content that is shown to human visitors is an actual site while the content that search engine sees is completely different. The site that search engines see is full of spam, mostly keyword stuffing.

However sometime people use “meta refresh” to cloak their URLs and Google judge this as black-hat too 🙂 It depends.

[Manos Moderator ManosJoin date: February 2014Posts: 2806Downloads:46Uploads:56 Thanks: 200 Thanked: 633 times in 576 posts]

#415410

<em>@jdokuchitz 270756 wrote:</em><blockquote>Thanks for that 🙂

Really? will google penalize me 🙁 hmmm…. I think I’ll do more research on it then.</blockquote>

Well… not only google i must say!

[jneubauer Friend jneubauerJoin date: August 2011Posts: 141Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 4 Thanked: 23 times in 23 posts]

#415411

@yellowrain87 – url cloaking is definitely a Black Hat trick – Google has stated this many times.
Next time Matt Cutts does a youtube stream session, just ask him! 🙂

[jooservices Friend jooservicesJoin date: October 2014Posts: 8556Downloads:0Uploads:130 Thanked: 1245 times in 1121 posts]

#415414

@jdokuchitz
Hi
May i know why do you need to use any black method ? Why don’t try to improve your site content really good , only made by you ?
Google will like it ( and more than that: visitor will like it ).
Thank you
Viet Vu

[viewerpro Friend viewerproJoin date: September 2011Posts: 2Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#415480

<em>@jneubauer 271065 wrote:</em><blockquote>@yellowrain87 – url cloaking is definitely a Black Hat trick – Google has stated this many times.
Next time Matt Cutts does a youtube stream session, just ask him! :)</blockquote>

Youtube will use more than.

[sharrons Friend sharronsJoin date: November 2011Posts: 6Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#424563

I think the OP wants to shorten the ugly long URLs to meaningful URLs. In that case there are several SEO plugins you can use. Try searching at http://extensions.joomla.org/

And a very big NO for people thinking it is a black hat technique. SEO experts really do advise you to have keyword friendly URLs instead of long and ugly URLs. In case you have any backlinks to the old urls or if you find any keywords ranking on top of the SERPS you better implement a 301 redirect using the .htaccess file after you change the URLs.

regards,

[michelsmith Friend michelsmithJoin date: November 2011Posts: 26Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#424746

you should structure the urls subject to the visitor’s request. Taking into account things like the ip, date, time, http headers with the link you present to the visitor with some custom encoding can eliminate chances of abuse.

Another way is using some sort of handshaking between 2 servers that is completely transparent to visitors. For instance if instead of a link I use a form with a post method, then the servers can communicate first and finally redirect headers are issued to the visitor.

Disadvantages with these approaches is that both ends need to have the encoding/decoding methods deployed, something hard to do unless you are really popular or you’re the owner of both ends in some way.

[deviana Friend devianaJoin date: May 2012Posts: 7Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#455145

don’t do it, this backhat seo way

[pattinson Friend pattinsonJoin date: September 2012Posts: 3Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#466316

Some clocking codes are allowed and some not. If you clocking both for google spiders and users to then its fine but if you display 2 different result to users and google spiders then Google panelized your website.

[elmanarah Friend elmanarahJoin date: March 2013Posts: 14Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#487595

URL cloaking,doorway pages and keyword stuffing ideas are gone.You will surely get fastest results and than fastest downfall using these techniques.

[alendonald Friend alendonaldJoin date: June 2013Posts: 13Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#497366

Cloaking is a Balck Hat Seo. If you use its technique so google ban your website. So I suggest you Don’t use cloaking. You can improve your site rank by using fair work.

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