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Would google penalize you / would they notice if you had a thing to detect if it was a search engines spider and then display alternate SEO rich content if it was?

Just a thought

Probably not right away but if you were discovered and/or other sites followed suit most likely .

My thought was just to have something below the footer which was disguised as a "Tag" field and maybe a synopsis, but only displayed for spiders.

I believe that qualifies as cloaking and can get you banned altogether.

(2009-09-27, 02:58 AM)Zash Wrote: [ -> ]I believe that qualifies as cloaking and can get you banned altogether.

What he said.

For proper SEO, Search Engines spiders need to be fed exactly what your guests are fed. Otherwise it's cloaking and you'll just get banned altogether. No in between penalties.