Cname

Is this classed as cloaking.

[gosman]

I use a subdomain search.mysite.com which is actually a cname pointing to an affiliate program I use. Is this classed as cloaking?

[MrSpeed]

I would say no. Cloaking is showing different content to a spider than what a human visitor would see usually based on IP detection. Canonicals and redirects really don't fall under the umbrella of cloaking.

[edited by: MrSpeed at 3:53 pm (utc) on Mar. 30, 2005]

[bakedjake]

No. Cloaking is serving different pages to search engines and users.

[moltar]

But it would probably cause duplicate content if several domains carry the same information.