Many web sites are presenting a different content to search engine bots than to you.
They do that in order to optimize their index rank, using one of the most famous SEO (Search Engine Optimization) technic: cloaking.
But you certainly don't! So, use this unique service to browse your competitor's Web page or any Web site by taking the identity of one of your favorite search engine.
And you become ubiquitous. And you discover this hidden world above suspicion...
Example of cloaking technics
Ghost pages: This generates totally new pages for search engines that human will never see! But thanks to browseAs.com, you can look at them easily;
try it yourself: enter http://browseas.com/cloaking/ ghostpage.php and choose a SE user-agent or click to perform the test.
Hidden text: Some sites have tons of highly rated words hidden somewhere. It takes borwseAs.com seconds to make the text visible. Try it yourself: enter http://browseas.com/cloaking/ hiddentext.php and choose a SE user-agent or click to perform the test.
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Control the Mobile Version of a Site
I-Mode: You can control the i-mode version of a site by choosing an i-Mode mobile user-agent. Try it yourself: enter http://google.com and choose a portalmmm user-agent or click to perform the test.
Wap: You can control the WAP (WML) version of a site by choosing a WAP mobile user-agent. Try it yourself: enter http://google.com and choose a SE mobile user-agent or click to perform the test.
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How to Use BrowseAs.com
You know it: any Web Site is potentially sensitive to the type of browser being used, displaying different content depending on the user agent the browser uses.
BrowseAs.com is the tool that you want to use to browse your site — or your competitor's one — to see how it looks when it is browsed with a given user-agent.
You want to check if your competitor uses cloaking technics to drive traffic towards it, potentially using your name or your products name?
You want to control what your preferred cloaking software has done for you?
Or you are highly interested in watching what a site exposes to a search engine when being crawled?
Want to see what GoogleBot sees right now? Simply type in the site URL and choose GoogleBot user-agent from the SE bot list!
Finally, you may also want to see the mobile phone version of your site?
See some example of the use of BrowseAs.com below...
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Terminology
SEO: Search Engine Optimization; a whole load of techniques likely to improves site ranking in search engine index.
Cloaking: A technique to optimize site ranking by displaying different content to search engine than human browsers. By giving lots of highly ranked words, these site illegaly attract a lot of traffic.
User agent: This is a short character string that browsers and bots use to identify themselves accessing Web sites.
Bot, Robot: A bot — short name for robot — is a software that browses Web sites and index them in a large database.
Spam bot: A special bot looking for email address contined in Web sites; Stored emails will be sold to spammers...
Proxy bot: A special bot that look for machines connectes to internet. They will attemp to use security holes to use this machine to indirectly illegaly access others web sites or servers.
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