Get Blacklisted

What are the odds

[fashezee]

On scale of 1 to 10 - what are the chances of a site being black listed due to cloaking?

Also, when a site is blacklisted, is it the IP address that gets the beating or
the domain name?

[Nick_W]

I think the scale would depend on what you're doing and how well you cloak, and how lucky you are with spam reporters.

>IP
Combination, or all sites on a host would be banned.

Nick

[fashezee]

"Combination, or all sites on a host would be banned."

I may get affected by other sites that I share the server with?

[Nick_W]

No, that's my point. They couldn*t do that without harming virtual hosts which would be a PR (public relations) disaster potentially.

Nick

[jeremy goodrich]

The sites I've seen busted en masse for 'cloaking' are usually busted for 'mass produced auto generated pages' and not for 'just cloaking'.

So, unless you are doing very dodgy stuff :) I'd say the risk is minimal...as long as the punter gets what they were after, even if you get reported, odds are slim to none you'll get 'bumped off'.

However, also depends on the competition for any given phrase...no search engine can risk upsetting the folks that pay the big $$$.

[fashezee]

Ok.

On the cloak page; what produces the best results;

1)keywords
2)keywords + some text
3)keywords as links + text
4)keywords as links

[jeremy goodrich]

Hm, for that -> I'd start a new thread :) Different topic, I believe.

[new_shoes]

jeremy said:

"The sites I've seen busted en masse for 'cloaking' are usually busted for 'mass produced auto generated pages' and not for 'just cloaking'."

I'm not that experienced with cloaking, so I'm not quite sure what you mean by "mass produced auto generated pages" and how it relates to cloaking - care to explain?