Brett_Tabke - 11:51 pm on Oct 26, 2000 (gmt 0)

Thanks for bringing cloaking into the forefront Mikkel.

I don't cloak nearly as much as I used to, but it still has it's place. Having been the victim of page jacking thousands of times, there is little question that cloaking is almost mandatory on top competitive keywords. It is nice for a SE to realize that we are almost forced to do it not merely to raise rankings, but to protect the code.

It really didn't hit home with me until some one swipped 300 pages of content from SEW. Within a month my rankings on that site were gone. I started searching for my rare obfuscated keywords and found over two dozen copies of the site on the net - all cloaked. I assume they were trying to understand my theme'ing approach to broadbased rankings.

So, I cloak not because I want to, but because I have to.