In most cases, webmasters want to use a cloaked redirection for their own domain because they have already set up a website on a free web host that does not provide domain name hosting, which means that the webmasters are not able to direct their domain name to their site the way others do. They avoid this problem by providing an option where they redirect your visitors to your real URL when they type in your domain name. Cloaked or masked URL redirection occurs when a visitor is unable to ascertain from their browser's address bar that they have been sent to a different URL.
With the way this redirection is configured, it may be difficult for your visitors to be able to bookmark particular pages on your website, instead they end up bookmarking your main domain address. As a consequence, other sites that find valuable content in your website and want to link to some particular pages may not like what shows up in their own browser and may require the exact url as a result.
However, if your internal links to other pages are coded in such a way as to point to your actual address at your free web host, then websites that link to those pages will not point their links at your domain name, but at your real URL. This becomes a problem because you will lose all those links pointing to your site, when you change web host.
lastly, your site will not perform very well in search engines like Google and the likes, because the link pointing to your sites will be directed to dummy web page associated with the cloaking software. Dummy pages are bad for search engine optimization (SEO)because of the absence of your key words and also note that in cloaked redirection, all your content is connected to you free web host url and not your own.
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In most cases, webmasters want to use a cloaked redirection for their own domain because they have already set up a website on a free web host that does not provide domain name hosting, which means that the webmasters are not able to direct their domain name to their site the way others do. They avoid this problem by providing an option where they redirect your visitors to your real URL when they type in your domain name. Cloaked or masked URL redirection occurs when a visitor is unable to ascertain
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