• SEO Scoop , Friday, September 14, 2007 12:30 PM

Some search pros may cloak the html of affiliate links, blocks of text, or other information on Web pages to keep search engine spiders from penalizing that content -- and some in the industry would call that Black Hat SEO. But what about keeping images or other text from getting scraped and duplicated by parked domains or parasite sites -- or just saving users from long, ugly URL strings? SEO Scoop's DazzlinDonna explains the rationale for urging her fellow search pro Michael VanDeMar to create a new text and HTML obfuscation tool. The post provides a link to the tool -- and a bit of defense for what could be characterized as a development in Grey Hat SEO.

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