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Detect SEO cloaking: see Googlebot vs user content
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Denis Franchi

CloakScan - Detect SEO cloaking: see Googlebot vs user content

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CloakScan detects when a website shows different content to search engines vs real users — a practice called cloaking that can destroy your rankings overnight. Paste any URL and instantly compare what Googlebot sees vs what real visitors see, with a 0–100 risk score. ✓ No plugins or server access required ✓ Side-by-side content diff (bot vs user) ✓ Scheduled monitoring with email alerts ✓ Full audit trail for client reporting ✓ Free to use — no account required

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Denis Franchi
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Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I'm Denis, founder of CloakScan. Here's the real story behind why I built this. I've been working with WordPress for 14 years — including as an official WordPress theme reviewer. I know this ecosystem inside out. Three months ago, I discovered — almost by accident — that 4 of my own WordPress sites had been hacked and cloaked. Attackers had injected hidden content that only search engines could see. Google had indexed over 2,500 spam pages under my domains. My visitors saw nothing wrong. I saw nothing wrong. Only Googlebot knew. The cleanup took weeks. The SEO damage took much longer to recover. Years of work, rankings, and reputation — damaged by something completely invisible to the human eye. The worst part? There was no simple, fast way to catch this early. I had to piece together curl commands, GSC reports, and manual renders just to understand what had happened. No single tool gave me a clear picture in seconds. So I built CloakScan. Paste a URL, see exactly what Google sees vs. what users see, get a risk score in seconds. The tool I wish I had three months ago. If you manage WordPress sites — especially for clients — please try it. It takes 30 seconds and requires nothing but a URL. Happy to answer any questions!
Saul Fleischman

@denis_franchi This is a genuinely painful origin story, and it's exactly the kind of specific problem that makes for a useful tool. The fact that you had to manually stitch together multiple tools and reports to discover what was happening on your own sites speaks volumes about the gap in the market you're filling.

Denis Franchi
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@osakasaul Thank you — that means a lot, especially on launch day. The "invisible" nature of cloaking is exactly what makes it so dangerous. You can do everything right and still have no idea it's happening. Hope CloakScan saves someone else from going through what I did!

Saul Fleischman

@denis_franchi It's like preventing negative SEO, right? And while good SEO gets you found in Google. GEOFixer gets you found in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini — where a lot of professional search has moved. It's the other half of visibility. 5 days free, no card: https://mentionfox.com/geofixer-trial