KloakIt 3.0 Active Help

• Analyzing your log
• Resetting your log
• Turning off cloaking one engine at a time
• Editing your robot lists
• Editing your entrance page templates
• Deleting entrance pages

Maintenance

Now you should understand the basic ideas behind creating entrance pages, testing, and submitting them. Read on to discover how you can turn KloakIt 3.0 into a really useful tool to help you promote your website.

Analyzing your log

At the bottom of the main control panel, you will find your Access Log. This log displays information about the last 500 hits to your cloaked pages. This log is extremely important because it can tell you when search engine robots are visiting your site, what cloaked URLs they visited, and which templates they were shown. It also tells you when normal web surfers visited your site, which search engines they came from, and possibly what keywords were used in the search.

If you tested your copy of KloakIt as recommended in Getting Started, you will notice at least one log line with a "#" symbol at the beginning of the line. This symbol indicates a "robot hit". This means KloakIt detected a search engine robot requesting one of your cloaked pages. Actually, the "robot" KloakIt detected was you, because you entered your I.P. address into one of your robot lists.

The entries you should really pay attention to are the ones without the "#" symbol at the beginning of the line. These are web surfers visiting your cloaked URLs. Here's how to decode one of these listings:

The above is a fake listing but it will do for our purposes. The part that says 5/15/00, 0:52 is the date/time of the entry. May 15, 2000 at 12:52 am. Next is the I.P. address (or hostname, if your server can translate this information) of the visitor, 209.185.141.185. Next is the name of the cloaked entrance page, stealth.htm. Last, and maybe most important is the referring URL. Many times the referring URL will contain the keywords used to bring up your listing in the search engine. If you copy this referring URL and paste it into your web browser, you can see the listings exactly as it was brought up (provided you don't wait too long -- sometimes the rankings change). This is very valuable information to any website promoter.

Resetting your log

You can clear your log if you want by clicking the button that says "Reset Log". I can't imagine why anyone would ever want to do this... but it's there if you need it.

Turning off cloaking one engine at a time

You can turn cloaking off for one or more lists of IP addresses at a time. Above the list of IP addresses, you'll see a line saying "Cloak for [engine name]:" with a checkbox. The default setting is to have the box checked, which means IPs from this list will be shown the optimized page meant for search engines. If you uncheck the box and click the "Save List" button, cloaking will be turned off for this list, and IPs from this list will see the page meant for human visitors.

Editing your robot lists

Near the top of the main control panel is a selection box with the names of search engines inside. Below it is a button with "Modify Robot List" on it. Pick a search engine and click the button to get started.

Your I.P. address is listed at the top of the editing page for your convenience. Under that you will see the list of I.P. addresses and hostnames for the search engine you picked. You can add comments and blank lines to these lists to help you make sense of them. To add a comment, put a "#" symbol at the beginning of the line.

It is very important that you do not put any extra spaces in the I.P. addresses or hostnames or the entry with the extra space will not function correctly.

After you are done adding or deleting I.P. addresses in your list you can click the "Save List" button and your list will be saved. If you made a grevious mistake, you can click the "Reset List" button before you click "Save List" and the list will be reset back to its original state.

By default, KloakIt will automatically update its IP addresses from the KloakIt website once per day if you access your control panel. You can turn this off in the advanced configuration menu.

Editing your entrance page templates

You will probably spend most of your time editing your entance page templates to tweak your entrance pages for the best rankings. KloakIt 3.0 makes it very easy to do this. On the main control panel, right next the robot list selection box, is the corresponding entrance page selection box. Choose the search engine and click the button.

You will see some short instructions underneath which is a text area which contains the entrance page template. You can type whatever HTML you want into this template. Feel free to be creative. Go ahead and destroy the works of art I have created for you... ; )

Actually, the entrance page templates that come with KloakIt 3.0 are designed to be tutorials with some good advice on how to create your own entrance page templates... so go ahead and experiment. For your reference, I have placed a sample Inktomi template here.

To insert your primary keyword phrase, insert #keyword# into the text of the HTML and it will be replaced with your primary keyword when the page is shown to a search engine robot. You can also control the case of your keyword phrase by using the codes listed below:

• #keyword# will produce the keyword phrase in the original case in which it was typed.
• #keywordUC# will produce the keyword phrase in UPPER CASE.
  
• #keywordLC# will produce the keyword phrase in lower case.
  
• #keywordTC# will produce the keyword phrase in Title Case.
  
  

You can also break up your primary keyword phrase into its component words by using this type of code: #keyword(1)# for the first word of the phrase, #keyword(2)# for the second word, and so on. The case can be controlled like #keyword(1)UC# for the first word in UPPER CASE, etc.

#filename# will be replaced with the filename of the cloaked page.

#secondarykeyword# will be replaced with randomly chosen keyword from your list of secondary keywords.

#randomtext# will be replaced with a randomly selected line from your Random Text List.

#randompage# will be replaced with a randomly selected URL from your list of random URLs.

If you would like to insert links to your other cloaked pages in your entrance pages, you can either hard-code them into the templates, or use #randomlink# tags. Anywhere a #randomlink# tag is found in a template will be replaced with a randomly chosen cloaked link. Also, anywhere a #randomlinktext# tag is found, the tag will be replaced with the same random link, repeated. For example, you could use this format:

<a href="#randomlink#">#randomlinktext#</a>

To save your template, click "Save Template", or to reset it back to its original state, click "Reset Template".

Deleting entrance pages

Deleting entrance pages is very simple. In the main control panel, click "Delete Entrance Pages". A list will be displayed of your current entrance page filenames. If you click on one of them, it will be selected. If you shift-click on another one, it will be selected too, as well as all the files in between. Control-click deselects or selects one at a time. If this sounds confusing, play with it a bit and you'll figure it out.

If you don't want to delete anything, just exit this menu by choosing another option or click your back button; otherwise, to delete the pages you have selected, click the "Delete Selected Entrance Pages" button. The pages will be gone forever.