PHP is server side and all Googlebot would see is the output HTML, right?
if (strpos($_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’],"Googlebot")) { // do some functionality }
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Yes because they send out SpyBots to fetch your site without using the user agent 'Googlebot' and compare the results. – Chloe Jan 29 '15 at 1:26
Defeating this is easy and has nothing to do with doing this on the server side. All they have to do is compare a page that you serve to the Googlebot user agent and one to a bot or human that is not. The pages will be different and you will be caught and penalized for cloaking. It's that simple.
answered Jan 28 '15 at 2:25
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3In fact, Google has been hitting sites from outside of their network for a vary long time for just this purpose. – closetnoc Jan 28 '15 at 2:47
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1I just want to put a link to a website on a site I built, nothing sinister everyone can get off their knees from praying to the almighty G – albo Jan 28 '15 at 18:06
