Adwords Cloaking

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Alright. I did a search before I made this thread, and didn't find much aside from basic affiliate link cloaking.
Ok.
So for adwords, what are the risks of cloaking the landing page? Not like cloaking a thing or two...like a full page cloak where users get sent straight to the offer, and Googlebots see a heavily QS optimized page.
Would I be most likely risking an account ban, or just having that ad dropped?
 


xmcp123 said:
How long have you been doing it? The only potential I see so far for downfall is if someone notices that the display url is not correct(since real users are getting redirected)
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Been doing it for over 6 months.
 
xmcp123 -

IMO you risk an account ban, but I don't think it's such a big deal.. My big fear would be the database (are you using something like fantomaster or home grown)..

My gut is Syndk8 is a bit more open and EarlGrey keeps it a tad bit more refined.. just my 0.2..
 
That absolute div positioning trick works wonders here. No cloaking needing. Mentioned in another thread but basically you put a whole bunch of spider food and absolutely position it under your human landing page. Human sees human, spider sees spider food. All in one page.
 
oziman said:
xmcp123 -

IMO you risk an account ban, but I don't think it's such a big deal.. My big fear would be the database (are you using something like fantomaster or home grown)..

My gut is Syndk8 is a bit more open and EarlGrey keeps it a tad bit more refined.. just my 0.2..
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My database is pretty iron clad. It's home grown, but is able to sustain sites longer than SEC, and comparable to fantomaster(under similar circumstances). Of course, it's not quite as good, but fantomaster's stuff is kind of the golden standard.
The account ban is a bit worrisome though
goddfadda said:
That absolute div positioning trick works wonders here. No cloaking needing. Mentioned in another thread but basically you put a whole bunch of spider food and absolutely position it under your human landing page. Human sees human, spider sees spider food. All in one page.
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Really? I suppose I was giving Google too much credit then. I figured if they could detect that for SEO sites, they'd be able to for Adwords.
Thanks for the input all.
 
Stanley said:
Hmm.. they can detect z-index hacks?
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I wouldn't think so... I've never noticed a bot to check out my css file, and without that there would be no way for it to know - and even then, iffy at best ya?
 
Don't even have to use an actual z-index, just the inherit features of CSS. One div after the other. Its similar to having a page with multiple tabs (aka youtube popular videos vs recent videos). Just without the tab functionality :)

This prob doesn't help but be sure to drop the .css file behind robots.txt.

They will detect dumb shit like top:-2000px or text-indent:-5000px. So don't do that kinda stuff.
 
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