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		<title>Time to End Hidden Advertising in Joomla Extensions</title>
		<description>Discuss Time to End Hidden Advertising in Joomla Extensions</description>
		<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/time-to-end-hidden-advertising-in-joomla-extensions/</link>
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			<title>Dylan says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/time-to-end-hidden-advertising-in-joomla-extensions/#comment-8954</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It was my understanding that the free version of ARTIO SEF included links back to the developer, but not the paid for version. Is this correct?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Dylan</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/time-to-end-hidden-advertising-in-joomla-extensions/#comment-8954</guid>
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			<title>Rune says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/time-to-end-hidden-advertising-in-joomla-extensions/#comment-7947</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Forgot to mention Joomlashacks also using some of the same trick, with encoded and well hidden (for user) advertising. Look for echo $jstpl; in templates index file, and the template.css.php in js folder.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Rune</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/time-to-end-hidden-advertising-in-joomla-extensions/#comment-7947</guid>
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			<title>Rune says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/time-to-end-hidden-advertising-in-joomla-extensions/#comment-7946</link>
			<description><![CDATA[JoomlaWorks also does this crap, and denies it's a problem even when it's proven that they mess with sites descriptions and possible ranking in Google http://forum.joomlaworks.gr/index.php?topic=5422]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Rune</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/time-to-end-hidden-advertising-in-joomla-extensions/#comment-7946</guid>
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			<title>sc says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/time-to-end-hidden-advertising-in-joomla-extensions/#comment-6992</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Sorry, It's not JoomlaPack, I think the hidden links were being installed before I installed JoomlaPack. Couldn't find the one that installed hidden links on many of the index.php files. I just re-installed Joomla.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>sc</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/time-to-end-hidden-advertising-in-joomla-extensions/#comment-6992</guid>
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			<title>Steve Burge says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/time-to-end-hidden-advertising-in-joomla-extensions/#comment-6925</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Thanks sc Do you have a link we could check this out with?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Steve Burge</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/time-to-end-hidden-advertising-in-joomla-extensions/#comment-6925</guid>
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			<title>sc says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/time-to-end-hidden-advertising-in-joomla-extensions/#comment-6924</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Just found out that JoomlaPack is doing the same, and I saw this in some of the free templates too.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>sc</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/time-to-end-hidden-advertising-in-joomla-extensions/#comment-6924</guid>
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			<title>Xmap says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/time-to-end-hidden-advertising-in-joomla-extensions/#comment-6355</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Hi, Xmap does not include hidden links since a long time ago!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Xmap</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/time-to-end-hidden-advertising-in-joomla-extensions/#comment-6355</guid>
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			<title>Steve Burge says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/time-to-end-hidden-advertising-in-joomla-extensions/#comment-6046</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Hi Jim 1) We do indeed use it, with the hidden link turned off. Its a great product - it just needed this one flaw fixing. 2) People need to know if they have a component installed that can harm their rankings. If they chose to keep it, thats up to them, but something like this shouldn't be hidden from them.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Steve Burge</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/time-to-end-hidden-advertising-in-joomla-extensions/#comment-6046</guid>
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			<title>If you don't like it...</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/time-to-end-hidden-advertising-in-joomla-extensions/#comment-6045</link>
			<description><![CDATA[..then just don't use it! I can see Alledia uses Joomap]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/time-to-end-hidden-advertising-in-joomla-extensions/#comment-6045</guid>
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			<title>Juhani says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/time-to-end-hidden-advertising-in-joomla-extensions/#comment-6019</link>
			<description><![CDATA[At the end hiding links will turn against the developer since it clearly violates Google's guidelines. If spiders don't find the hidden links the users surely will... Developers that do this kind of "link building" take a huge risk of getting their site banned from Google. Component users should still also watch their HTML since Google could also give penalty to the site that hides the link.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juhani</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.alledia.com/blog/rants/time-to-end-hidden-advertising-in-joomla-extensions/#comment-6019</guid>
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