Google Allows Cloaking?

I bet they don't !

[Tony_Perry]

A good client of mine is being advised by another well known web design company that Google allow cloaking and it's ok to do so. You can imagine how I responded to that! The trouble is he wants to beleive it, well you would, wouldnt you!

I have emailed him the link to google Terms & Conditions, but he still is unsure. What on earth Sould I tell him to convince him it isnt the way to go?

[rocco]

"Spam techniques may make sense for shady affiliate sites that belong to the domain-of-the-month club. But if the client's Web site is part of an established business that doesn't want to change domain names every time it gets caught in Google's spam filter, responsible SEO techniques make a lot more sense than spamming. "

very true. never expose a brand or company website to a risk.

[Nitin]

Jady Please find a short definition of cloaking

The term "cloaking" is used to describe a website that returns altered webpages to search engines crawling the site. In other words, the webserver is programmed to return different content to search engines than it returns to regular users, usually in an attempt to distort search engine rankings. This can mislead users about what they'll find when they click on a search result.

Google may permanently ban from its index any sites or site authors that engage in cloaking to distort their search rankings.
(http://www.google.com/webmasters/faq.html#cloaking)