Cloaking Checker
Compare user, mobile and Googlebot-style access to detect possible cloaking, crawler differences and suspicious behavior.
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What This Tool Checks
Cloaking Checker reviews focused signals that help identify access, DNS, HTTPS, redirect, mobile and crawler problems.
Desktop browser result
This signal helps identify whether the tested domain is healthy, blocked, redirected, misconfigured or risky.
iPhone result
This signal helps identify whether the tested domain is healthy, blocked, redirected, misconfigured or risky.
Android result
This signal helps identify whether the tested domain is healthy, blocked, redirected, misconfigured or risky.
Googlebot result
This signal helps identify whether the tested domain is healthy, blocked, redirected, misconfigured or risky.
Final URL comparison
This signal helps identify whether the tested domain is healthy, blocked, redirected, misconfigured or risky.
Risk findings
This signal helps identify whether the tested domain is healthy, blocked, redirected, misconfigured or risky.
Common Issues Detected
Use this checker to find technical problems that basic status-code tools may miss.
Googlebot sees a different final URL
This issue can affect user access, crawler access, indexing, redirects or domain reliability. Review the report before changing DNS, CDN, server or SEO settings.
Users are redirected but crawler is not
This issue can affect user access, crawler access, indexing, redirects or domain reliability. Review the report before changing DNS, CDN, server or SEO settings.
Mobile and crawler content differs
This issue can affect user access, crawler access, indexing, redirects or domain reliability. Review the report before changing DNS, CDN, server or SEO settings.
User-agent rules create access differences
This issue can affect user access, crawler access, indexing, redirects or domain reliability. Review the report before changing DNS, CDN, server or SEO settings.
Crawler receives a cleaner page than users
This issue can affect user access, crawler access, indexing, redirects or domain reliability. Review the report before changing DNS, CDN, server or SEO settings.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Cloaking Checker.
What is cloaking?
Cloaking means showing different content or URLs to search engines than to normal users.
Can cloaking happen accidentally?
Yes. CDN rules, security systems, user-agent logic or plugins can accidentally create crawler differences.
What should Googlebot see?
Googlebot should generally see the same main content, status code and canonical URL as users.
How does this checker help?
It compares browser and Googlebot-style responses to flag major differences.