What is the purpose of cloaking? - SEO

What is the purpose of cloaking?

- Cloaking is used by black hat and it is one of the unethical practices in SEO. It uses the devices that provide deceiving mechanism for the search engines.

- This directs the webpage to a place that are not visible on domain and the spiders or crawlers are analyzing for it.

- Cloaking provides the use of false pages that are loaded with the keyword and other content that is search engine optimized.

- This boosts the search engine results to rank the page higher on the search engines and provide artificial methods to advance the ranking of a web page.

- Cloaking only works when it uses CGI scripts in the hidden web page used to scan the IP address of the visitor visiting the web page.