What happens when you are caught

If a cloaked page is reported / penalized

[howiejs]

I am just learning about Cloaking and this forum is excellent.

If you are cloaking on a "throw-away" domain to redirect to a "money" site -- and the throw away gets burnt - does this have any effect on the money site (penalty, etc)?

Or do you just keep putting up new throw-aways?

[ogletree]

New throw aways.

[howiejs]

So are there any issues / penalties "left" on the page you are redirecting to?

[chrisnrae]

If the engines were to penalize the page you were redirecting the throwaways too, what would prevent your competition from getting your sie banned using a few throwaways and simply pointing it at you?

You have no control over who is redirecting to your site. The engines definitely aren't blind to that in most instances.

[ogletree]

You never know what the future holds.

[volatilegx]

I have never heard of a primary site being punished for a "throwaway" site sending human traffic to the primary site. I won't say it will never happen, but it would be difficult to implement without a lot of innocent sites getting hurt, as mentioned above.