http://www.bramblog.com/trulia-caught-cloaking-red-handed/#comment-195 Eric Bramlett Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:26:03 +0000 http://www.bramblog.com/?p=72#comment-195 Back to the subject, though. I was under the impression that serving different pages to users & bots was cut & dry cloaking, and against Google TOS. Even though the subject matter is similar, there's a much simpler way to keep the index clean. Unless I'm missing something, I just don't see how "noindex, nofollow," or "noindex, follow" wouldn't scale, while a cloaked 301 would. The only benefit I see to a cloaked 301 is that the juice passes through. Back to the subject, though. I was under the impression that serving different pages to users & bots was cut & dry cloaking, and against Google TOS. Even though the subject matter is similar, there’s a much simpler way to keep the index clean. Unless I’m missing something, I just don’t see how “noindex, nofollow,” or “noindex, follow” wouldn’t scale, while a cloaked 301 would. The only benefit I see to a cloaked 301 is that the juice passes through.

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