A “stealth site” is a website whose intention is to deliver one specific page (usually a landing page) of highly optimized content to a user, based on their searches. It attempts to filter out overly spammy information and deliver only the relevant keyword-rich content the searcher is looking for. This is sometimes known as “cloaking” and can be done in two primary ways (described below):
- Write a script which is able to detect the viewer’s IP address, then allow it to be compared to a list of search engine robots or spiders. If there is a match, then the script would load the “stealth” page. If there is no match, then the page that would normally load, will load instead.
- The second way is to detect the user-agent information about a visitor. If the agent is a googlebot or web spider, then the stealth page is loaded. If it is typical browser, the normal page is loaded.
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