Cloaking

Cloaking is a technique aimed at deceiving search engines, in which the content presented to site users is different from that presented to search engine robots. As a rule, an over-optimized page that is loaded with keywords is created for robots. Some webmasters believe they can thus improve a site's ranking in the search results. Although, in fact, they only expose their site to the risk of excluding its pages from a search engine's index.

A specific example of cloaking is manipulating search algorithms. The main content changes depending on how the site is accessed.

Yandex found I have this violation. How do I fix it?

You should completely refuse from using cloaking. Make sure that the site users and search engine robots are presented the same content.

I deleted everything. When will restrictions be lifted?

The restrictions are usually lifted within a month after you eliminate the violations.

I'm making an experiment on my site: part of the site's audience is shown one page and the other part is shown a modified page. This is how I determine what type of page my site users like best. Is it treated as cloaking?

No, as it doesn't involve any deception of site users or search engines. It's important that the user who clicked through to your site from the search results is delivered the content they expected to see.

My site can determine which region the user came from and displays the corresponding content. Is this cloaking?

In this case, as in the previous one, there is no attempt to deceive. So this won't be treated as cloaking.

I did everything, but the restrictions aren't lifted

Check if the site users and search engine robots are actually presented the same content. To do this, open the saved copies of the site pages and make sure they have the same content as the site itself.