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[SEO Blog] Cloaking: The process of sending a version of a web page to a search engine that is different from the one a user sees on the site. Cloaking is considered to be unethical but is often used to increase the potential ranking of a website.

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

[iwillsearchu.com] Economist - Dancing with Googles Spiders [1]: A nice article regarding SEM and Google can be found in the Economist this month. Most interesting, it writes “In 2005 worldwide spending on such “search-engine optimization’ (SEO), grew 125% to $1.2 billion, according to SEMPO”¦ It predicts spending will grow by 150% this year”

http://ablenetdesign.blogspot.com [Able Net Design Diaries] Search Engine Secrets - Get Top Listings On... : I don't mean to use pages that are filled with nothing but keywords - use them in Real Sentences. Pages that are nothing but keywords will hurt you in the search engines, this is called keyword stuffing and will hurt your rankings or worse yet, get your site delisted or banned from the search engines.

Waxy.orghttp://waxy.org [Waxy.org] Waxy.org: Daily Log: Wordpress Website's Search Engine Spam: Which is the whole point, IMV: all those people who would now blithely participate in yet another one of those holier-than-thou witchhunts the world has seen more than enough of in its long, ignominous history, would be well advised to sit back and reflect on how much of a benefit WP has been or still is to their particular interests and agendas, how much it has contributed to the Web community in general and the blogosphere in particular, before waxing all judgmental and self-righteous.

http://www.smart-it-consulting.com [Smart-it-consulting.com] Web Log Archive: Search engines produce way too much collateral damage in their war on index spam. Especially eCommerce sites suffer from harsh duplicate content filtering.

News.stepforth.com[News.stepforth.com] 15 Shades of SEO Spam :: StepForth Search Engine Placement Inc ...: The vast majority of web users would agree with that statement and nobody would even think of the finely processed luncheon meat-product made by Hormel. Even the word itself is infectious in all the worst ways, being used to describe the dark-side and often deceptive side of everything from Email marketing to abusive forum behaviour.

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