Originally Posted by Angry Jew Cat

Here's a quickie for ya. Say I wanted to redirect all my traffic from Cambodia off to some other random location. So i setup with a GeoIP database, yadda yadda, and next thing you know **poof** off goes all my Cambodian traffic to some other shit. My first suggestion would be to use your .htaccess to send all Cambondian traffic to a page with in your site that contains your leads to where you want the Cambondian traffic to go. If you prefer not to use ads on that page, then I would recommended still using the .htaccess to redirect Cambondian traffic to say Cambondian.Site.com , then 301 that Cambondian.Site.com to the location you want to send the traffic. With proper redirection, you should not take on any penalties for the SE's (the ones you care about the most G,Y,B, etc), will see the reasoning and proper methods you are taking to redirect that traffic from the content that you provide the majority of your surfers in comparison to the content your following thru to. You can also setup the prefered Targeted Traffic thru your webmaster tools for that page your 301 redirecting to with in your verified site. (Example, if you have verified Site.com, you can verify Cambondia.Site.com seperately, and change the prefered targeted country for that directory.

How will this action be viewed by the engines? When they are trying to combat cloaking in their SERPs, do they see what I am doing and let me be? Or am I facing possible penalties if I'm caught doing so? Is this considered a not allowed type of cloaking? Would I be alright listed in some international portals for the search engines, and punished on others? This is hard to say unless you do the proper redirections. Anytime you make a site change or major traffic shift, It can easily effect your SERPS, but in the event of just changing a country redirect, again, there is proper steps to doing so that are valid and accepted by all major search engines. This is why Google offers Google.de, Google.co.uk, etc.

I guess the question could be asked similarly of sites with a mobile and regular version of the site. If there are two version of the same index, displaying vaguely similar content, how is this looked upon? Does the spider not see the mobile version at all? Is there a mobile spider working separately that does recognize the redirect? In this case, your mobile version of your site as a WAP version should be properly optimized for Mobile, and with that optimization, Google very quickly recognizes that it is a mobile version. I would imagine that your Web Version and Mobile version will have unique title's at the least (or should I should say). Mobile SEO compared to Standard SEO varies in numerous ways, but Google can see the difference based on the HTML alone assuming your site is properly setup.

Say you're doing something like in the case of OneTapPorn or whatever, and you're bumping off all your mobile traffic to a completely different site altogether? Surely that's got to throw up some alarms as far as anti-cloaking detection is concerned?

What goes on in situations like these?
Again, this goes back to proper redirection. There is steps that need to be taken for this to work properly.