What is the best way to configure Search Engine Cloaker?

Help Tab
The Help Tab is a good resource for information on understanding the basics of cloaking.  I recommend that you read through it and pay special attention to the tutorial on how to setup .htaccess because later we will be setting up .htaccess cloaking.

Keywords Tab
For the advanced setup of Search Engine Cloaker you can just ignore the keywords tab.

Basic Config Tab
- Status Of Search Engine Cloaker:  This should be set to "active" when you are done setting up SEC.
- URL(s) To Send Users To:  This is where you put the URL of your landing page.  If you are sending visitors directly to an affiliates page then put your affiliate link.  The URL should be in the format "http://www.yourlandingpage.com".
- Average Number Of Words Per Cloaked Page:  Leave this blank because when using the Templates Add-on this feature is not used.
- Management Console Password:  This should have been already changed, but this is the password that you use to login to the SEC Management Console.
- Management Console Name:  This should be changed to something that resembles a password.  Basically this should be something that no one will guess because you don't want people to see your SEC Management Console login page because if they do then they will know that you are cloaking.  Just remember that when you change this your new URL to login to your SEC Management Console will be http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/CHANGED.pl.  This renames the manage.pl files that you uploaded to your cgi-bin.
- SiteMap Keyword:  Leave blank
- Search Engine Spiders:  Don't change any of this.  This will automatically update when you click "submit now" on the basic config page.
- Program Updates:  Click "yes".

MAKE SURE YOU CLICK "SUBMIT NOW" TO SAVE YOUR SETTINGS.

Advanced Config Tab
- Target Word Density:  Since we are using the Templates Add-on this will not be used, so you can just leave it alone.
- Name of Cloaking Script:  Once again you will want to change this for security purposes.  Again, you can treat it like a password and change it to anything that you want.  This just renames the index.pl file that you uploaded to your cgi-bin.
- .htaccess Cloaking Word:  This you will want to change to "yes" and make the cloaking word "html".
- Include URLs in Stuffer Pages:  For our purposes we will not be using stuffer pages so leave this configured to "no".
- Testing URL Active?:  For right now you can leave this "active", but when you are done setting up Search Engine Cloaker you will want to adjust this to "inactive".
- Hide Console Advertisements?:  You can leave this set to "Don't hide".
- Cloaked Pre-Header:  Because we are using the Templates Add-on this will not be used.
- Cloaked Header:  Because we are using the Templates Add-on this will not be used.
- Cloaked Footer:  Because we are using the Templates Add-on this will not be used.
- Automatic Updates:  You can adjust these to your personal preferences, but I set Auto-regenerate Hyperlinks to "no", Auto-clear logs set to "no", Auto-update Program set to 5 days, and Auto-update Spiders set to 5 days.

MAKE SURE YOU CLICK "SUBMIT NOW" TO SAVE YOUR SETTINGS.

Logs Tab
- Search Engine Spider Log:  This log will show you every time a search engine spider hits a cloaked page.  It will tell you the date, time, search engine (Yahoo, Google, MSN,...), and the cloaked page URL.
- Real User Log:  This log will show you the real visitors that have visited a cloaked page and got redirected to your landing page.  If they came from a search engine it will show you the search results page that they came from.  If you copy and paste that URL into your browser you will be able to see what keywords were search for and where your cloaked page is listed in the search engine.

Templates Add-on
The Templates Add-on will be discussed in more detail in other FAQ questions.

Static Pages Add-on
You will need to activate this add-on with the activation key you received when you purchased the Static Pages Add-on.
- Create Static Pages Automatically:  You will want to set this to "Automatically make Static Pages".
- Create Static Pages Right Now:  We won't be using this feature.
- Your Existing Static Pages:  This is where your static pages will be displayed.  Every time a search engine spider hits a cloaked page then it will be made static and added here.