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        • Ruchy
          Ruchy last edited by

          Hi there again,

          I found a major cloaking hack in our client's website that is really well camouflaged and all the seo tools that I tried to help me check for cloaking couldn't find it.

          I know that screaming frog is a great tool and I want to use it to help me, however, I can't seem to get my way around their system that I downloaded.

          Can you help me with the screaming frog program? Do you know where I can make a full site check for cloaking, maybe there are more links that I wasn't notified about?

          I would really appreciate if you could help me with that.

          Thanks so much, Ruchy

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          • BlueprintMarketing
            BlueprintMarketing @Ruchy last edited by

            Hi Ruchy,

            That's fantastic deep crawl is a great tool.

            I was talking about two different types of cloaking one using an URL with a  C name for hidden cloaking  e.g. https://www.rebrandly.com/

            Thank you for the kind words.  Giving good answers and thumbs up or thumbs down definitely does make a difference I have outlined a lot of it below the official MozPoints URLhttp://a-moz.groupbuyseo.org/community/mozpoints

            Yes marking anything as a giving thumbs-up is telling somebody they have helped you and in the event of thumbs up is their response was valuable and maybe contributed to answering your question.

            In the case, of giving good answer person has answered your question giving as well as thumbs-up is the way anything is a way of saying thank you.

            Welcome to the most community, and I look forward to seeing you here.

            All the best,

            Tom

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            • Ruchy
              Ruchy last edited by

              Hi Tom

              we finally solved the issue. Thanks for your clear answers, the info really helped me. We bought DeepCrawl and it really was helpful.

              What was the C name you were talking about?

              Thank you, Ruchy

              P.S. i marked good answer by the wrong one, does it make a difference?

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              • BlueprintMarketing
                BlueprintMarketing last edited by

                Hey just wanted to check was any answer helpfull to you?

                Is there anything  we might've missed or failed to help you solve the issue?

                All the best,

                Tom

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                • BlueprintMarketing
                  BlueprintMarketing @Ruchy last edited by

                  Full site http://www.ghosturl.com/

                  or

                  https://www.rebrandly.com/

                  https://d3e7f5z1blhqw4.cloudfront.net/static/imgs/animation-homepage.gif

                  animation-homepage.gif

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                  • Ruchy
                    Ruchy @Andy.Drinkwater last edited by

                    Thanx Andy

                    That was a helpful piece of information.

                    I am still a little confused, can you give me some further advice?

                    I there any way for me to do a full site cloaking check?

                    Ruchy

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                    • BlueprintMarketing
                      BlueprintMarketing last edited by

                      Hi Ruchy,

                      Screaming Frog is an excellent tool. Dan is a great guy to update and the on that.

                      In my opinion, I have been able to find formation using https://www.deepcrawl.com/

                      The cost is higher deepcrawl is also a hosted platform.

                      Still, it can do remarkable things that no other tool that I know of can do.

                      https://www.deepcrawl.com/blog/best-practice/12-seo-issues-and-practices-that-google-will-penalize-you-for/

                      There are built just for checking cloaking this one is free

                      http://www.seotools.com/seo-cloaking-checker/

                      If you have access to the DNS will want to examine this thoroughly.

                      I have laid out how you would find c name DNS records if you do not have access to the DNS as well.

                      One other method you might have to use to determine whether or not domain or subdomain has been cloaked as shown here: http://www.ghosturl.com/  if the cloaking happens in a manner described in the URL for this sentence.

                      So the scenario would be the cloaked URL would be something like

                      http://www.cloaked.example.com/?=ku2b4B30ijbasT47720sb534Nbq6

                      ( please know I used example.com is the domain because I did not want to pointed that any live site not because of anything to do with cloaking)

                      Therefore they're using most likely a C name inside the DNS to pointed to  http://www.example.com

                      You will need to use a tool that would be able to look at the IP or C name being created by the DNS.

                      The free tool I know if that can look for a C name or A record that should not be there is https://www. cloudflare.com the way you would do this is run the site through the DNS wizard that pulls the current DNS including all the records (it can miss some, but it does an excellent job of catching most of all DNS records. (9 times out of 10 will get all of them)

                      Because most tools make it impossible to see the C name when looking at DNS, it is important to remember there is a free service that is not designed for this purpose but can be used to discover the rogue cloaked URL.

                      https://www.cloudflare.com/a/sign-up (the free-tier offers the same ability to get DNS information)

                      http://i.imgur.com/Wm7W0aM.mp4

                      https://cl.ly/0A3k3d2j401n/Screen Recording 2017-01-26 at 07.09 AM.mov

                      http://i.imgur.com/lIN9Gsm.png

                      Hope This helps,

                      Tom

                      Wm7W0aM.gif lIN9Gsm.png

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                      • Andy.Drinkwater
                        Andy.Drinkwater last edited by

                        Dan from Screaming Frog has just had a look at this, and although he is on the move at the moment, he said this...

                        On the road to a meeting, but they can switch user-agent & change to JavaScript rendering mode to test for cloaking. Depends how it's cloaked, though. Some may do via referrer which you can't test for within the Spider (yet!). Will reply a bit later 🙂

                        -Andy

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                        • Ham1979
                          Ham1979 last edited by

                          Hi there

                          You can spider the site with screaming frog and then do a bulk export of all the outlinks into a CSV and run through and see if there are links in there that shouldn't be

                          Have you downloaded the latest version?

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