Is this cloaking?

Is it anything of these on risk for cloaking?

1. Relevant Replacements (Guests only)
2. Adsense (Guests only)
3. Content of Threads/Posts (Allow All)
4. Signatures (Members only)
5. <!-- forum rules --> on Thread/Forum pages (Members only)
6. <!-- Active Users in this Forum.... --> on Forum pages (Members only)
7. <!-- icon key --> on Forum pages (Members only)

I don't think so.
I'm also using some of the above mentioned tweaks :

# Adsense (Guests only)
# <!-- forum rules --> on Thread/Forum pages (Members only)
# <!-- Active Users in this Forum.... --> on Forum pages (Members only)

members VS guests is NOT a cloaking issue. it is expected that members have more features.

HUMAN guests VS BOT guests is where cloaking comes into play.


As long as your human guests see the same thing as your bot guests, you're 100% in the clear.

sniffing out user agents and running conditionals like (pseudocode

Code:

if($_SERVER['user-agent'] = 'googlebot') { 
echo "<h1>Hi robot. here's some keyword stuffing:</h1>
<p>keyword, keyword, keyword, stuff stuff stuffing</p>"; } 
else { echo "<h1>Hi Human.</h1>"; }

is where you run into cloaking issues

Originally Posted by briansol

HUMAN guests VS BOT guests is where cloaking comes into play.

As long as your human guests see the same thing as your bot guests, you're 100% in the clear.

I see...

Thank you both for answering