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99SIVTEC · #**185** 12-09-2005, 07:45 PM

lol, and good luck getting caught doing it. Myspace does the same thing as do other very large websites. You are highly unlikely to get penalized for something like this. Cloaking infers that you are showing DIFFERENT content to a search engine than a regular user. This isn't the case. The two see the exact same info they just must be registered to view it. Thus this is not cloaking. Do some research on the subject (I know quite a bit about the subject as I have built ip based cloaking system for sites in the past)

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Originally Posted by Zachery

Thats content cloaking and a big no no. (This can get you black listed from sites like google and yahoo).

The Default vB system allows you to disallow users from viewing the thread content but see the titles etc.

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