Blatantly Evil Question

From: Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:30:15 +0000
Subject: Blatantly Evil Question
Groups: php.general 
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What is the best way to cloak a site - send search engines different content than real users? Yes, I know it's bad practice, and I know the domain will eventually be banned. I've found lots of different methods including huge tables of all the possible client types sent by various spiders. I postulate that the simplest/fastest way to do it, and no less reliably, would be to simply consider any user whose client type includes "msie", "netscape", or "safari" to be a person, and let the rest go. Anyone have any practical experience with success that they'd like to share? I know there are plenty of negative stories and reasons NOT to do those but no need to take up the bandwidth with that; heard 'em already. :)

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