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Cloaking Links = Necessary?

by GGpaul
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A friend of mine had his site at ranked 2 page 1. Until he got his site dropped where it's not even in the top 10 rankings. He believes it deals with him not cloaking the links.

Do you guys believe cloaking links plays a big role? Especially with the updates? Thanks.
#cloaking #links
  • Profile picture of the author AnmolJ
    Yes Cloaking Is Important !
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  • Profile picture of the author NXmarketeer
    i find it more probably to have a rank drop when you do cload links, than for not cloaking them. google doesn't like cloaking, iframing and such methods.
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  • Profile picture of the author funeral
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    • Profile picture of the author mattysaff
      Cloaking and keyword stuffing is basic reason for Google penguin update. So just avoid them.
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  • Profile picture of the author JimMichael
    Cloaking is for crooks who have something to hide.
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  • Profile picture of the author GetSomeDollar
    Guys,

    What are your thoughts on domain forwarding W/out masking. I have a store that previously had a different domain so I have that old domain forwarding to the new one for old returning customers.

    My serps took a mega hit on the 24th update, I was wondering if you guys think this may be a contributing factor?

    essentially 2 URL's are listed in google for the same store homepage.
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  • Profile picture of the author IM Gourmet
    I did a bit of research on Google and affiliate links a while ago. My conclusion was a) don't cloak them (although the old domainname.com/affiliatename 301 redirect seems to be OK), but b) do nofollow them. Google doesn't care that much about affiliate links, but it doesn't like passing juice through links which are financially compensated.
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  • Profile picture of the author IM Gourmet
    GetSomeDollar - what forwarding method are you using? Depending on what you're doing, you could be getting hit by a duplicate content penalty.
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    • Profile picture of the author GetSomeDollar
      Originally Posted by IM Gourmet View Post

      GetSomeDollar - what forwarding method are you using? Depending on what you're doing, you could be getting hit by a duplicate content penalty.
      The domain is hosted at Godaddy so I am just forwarding through their domain manager tool.
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  • Profile picture of the author GGpaul
    Okay. My amazon sites are RANKING up and I don't want them to get "owned."/flagged/deindexed w/e the heck you want to call it. Just making sure things are good to go. When I have a link that says something like "click here to order blah blah blah" it's going straight to the amazon link with the simple html code of a href=" " < / a> and so forth.

    I'm going to keep it that way and keep it simple then. Thanks all.
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  • Profile picture of the author SarahMcCrary
    Avoid cloaking, hidden texts, links etc. Google Penguin doesn't like these practices at all now.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steve Michael
      Cloaking is one of the black hat techniques it may increase the page ranking but once search engine finds it your website will be penalised.
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