Domain Parking and Cloaking

January 24th, 2006 by Michael Gray in Google, Grayhat SEO, SEO

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So I was cruising around last night with “Googlebot” as my User-Agent. I was thinking of something and decided to visit a domain I have with a parking service. I was surprised to see they were using cloaking IP delivery to include links to 5 other websites. Now these all happen to be other domains that are parked at the service, since you probably get more links pointed at you then you are giving out it works out in the end. So for you folks who do have lots of domain parking is this a common practice?

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2 Responses to “Domain Parking and Cloaking”

  1. anty Says:
    January 25th, 2006 at 4:23 am

    This is cloaking, not IP delivery… You haven’t spoofed you IP, you only used the Googlebot User-Agent…

  2. Administrator Says:
    January 25th, 2006 at 6:25 am

    Cloaking carries negative connotations, so user agent targeting would be more politically correct.