How can PHP developers ensure that their CMS systems are compliant with search engine guidelines and avoid penalties for cloaking or deceptive practices?

To ensure that PHP CMS systems are compliant with search engine guidelines and avoid penalties for cloaking or deceptive practices, developers should make sure that the content served to search engine crawlers is the same as what is served to users. This can be achieved by detecting the user agent of the request and serving appropriate content based on that. 

if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'Googlebot') !== false) {
    // Serve content for search engine crawlers
} else {
    // Serve content for regular users
}

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