Quote Originally Posted by .mac View Post
No, letting spiders to crawl parts of your site that are usually not open for guests or displaying some other content just to Google is cloaking. Do your homework.
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Quote Originally Posted by CyberJ37 View Post
Having a "spider skin" is considered cloaking. Which Google does not like/forbids.
having a separate skin for spiders is encouraged. Do you honestly think sites like Digital Point which specialize in custom SEO and Google Ranking chat would have their whole site cloaked to Google and risk being banned. Think about it.