It's not cloaking as such. More like cookie stuffing.

Ducksauce,

Cloaking is a method where one web document is shown to a visitor and a completely different one shown to a search engine. Simply having a different URL would not fall under that definition.

More on cloaking from Google,

Cloaking - Webmaster Tools Help

hope that helps,

Shawn

Thanks for the link, I found it really helpful.



Is cookie stuffing like this permitted by Google is the next question then?

Thanks folks