Mar
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2008
| Joomla.org Changes Policy on Hidden Advertising |
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| Tuesday, 04 March 2008 | |
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Good news over at Joomla.org - extensions with hidden advertising will be clearly labelled. We've covered this topic two times on this blog and thoroughly support the decision. I think this will do quite a bit to protect the reputation of Joomla and 3rd party developers. Its embarrassing to explain to high-value clients why their Joomla sites contain hidden links to hotels, apartments or random web developers. This is the notice that will appear on guilty extensions:
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Comments (4)
  written by trichnosis, March 04, 2008
this is a good news for end users. Hidden ads may hurt serp.
 written by Amy Stephen, March 05, 2008
Steve - this is another example of how your approach - direct and positive - is respected. It's great to see that J! org concurs with this and introduced these improvements. I appreciate your work for the community, thank you.
 written by Steve Burge, March 05, 2008
Thanks Amy - I think its possible to get quite a bit done by asking nicely
  written by Good Web Practices, March 06, 2008
This is good news
Happy to see your advice was acted upon Steve! Write comment
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