Is this some sort of cloaking?

Is this some sort of cloaking? I searched for "hypnotic seduction" hoping to see how the competition is doing. Here is the search:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...notic+seduction

Now, the second result that comes up currently is "www.seduce-women.us/hypnotic-seduction.html". But, when you click on the link it takes you to "http://www.guygetsgirl.com", one of my main competitors.

Now, here's the strange thing - click on the "cache" version of the page in Google, and guess what happens? It doesn't show a "traditional" cache like every other page - instead, it forwards right to "www.guygetsgirl.com".

Is this some sort of cloaking? I didn't realize you could manipulate the google cache as well.

Hi Manga,

its cloaking at its best. Just try:

view-source:URL

You can see that the site redirects to "http://www.guygetsgirl.com" by javascript and not server-sided by header-redirect.

Google cashes the whole site including this javascript-code and they don't turn it off when displaying the cashed version.

Martin

Martin,

Thanks for the info! It certainly is interesting to see how cloaking is done, I've never even tried it. And to see what this person's version of "proper SEO" is, when you look at his source.

Thanks again!

No, it isn't cloaking, or anything like it. It's called auto-redirecting.

Cloaking in search engine terms is serving one page, or version of a page, to people and a different page or version to the search engine spiders. It's done at the server end and not by Javascript.

What happens with cloaking is that the spider's IP address (or User-Agent for poor cloaking methods) is recognised at the server and a specially prepared page is returned to the spider. Had it not been a spider, the normal page would be returned.