Hiding Price html component for all countries except US
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Hello everybody,
We are planning to have a new website soon, which will be an E-Commerce website for people from the US, and non E-Commerce website for people from other countries.
In other words, in the poduct pages, we would like to have the price of the product shown to the users from the US, and on the other hand we would like it to be invisible for users outside of the US. We thought about setting the html elelment of the price to be visible only for US users (by ip).
My question is - can Google crawler see this as potential cloacking, since we hide some of the content to some of the users (while google might scan it from US iip address)?
Thanks in advance...
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Thanks everybody!
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I agree with Martijn. Also I have previously had this same scenario ie hiding/changing elements of text based on IP lookup. I can also recommend using GeoIP2 Country web service from MaxMind.
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Hi,
Simple answer: No. Just hiding the price for US customers is far from cloaking. What you normally would do with cloaking is hide elements that are not relevant to SEO and include extra text and data for those pages.
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