Page Peel Banner Changing Google Search Listings

I have installed Page Peel Banner module on a Joomla 2.5.8 site and it work OK. However, some of my site's Google search results now appear as "TemplatePlazza" - a situation that is clearly quite unacceptable. Unless this can be removed I will be obliged to remove the extension from the site.

Can this consequence of using Page Peel Banner be removed? Of all the cheeky methods used by companies to advertise in their "free" extensions, this one seems the worst. How any website user is expected to tolerate such a situation is beyond me. Far from enhancing a company's reputation, this surely has a significant negative impact. I hope there is a simple resolution.
11 years 11 months ago #1 by Traveller439

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Hi Traveller439,
We're sorry for this inconvenience. Strange, as far as I remember, we have never put any hidden link on any of our free extension. And yes, as you said it's a no good approach and we know it.
Can you tell me your website URL so I can check it ?
11 years 11 months ago #2 by andy

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Thank you for your quick reply. You can see the site, and the problem, at :
http://www.openphotographicsociety.org/%20http://www.openphotographicsociety.org/weddings/ops-wedding-photography-service/684-free-wedding-photography-bookings

The page source code includes:

<div id="page-peel-banner">
<a href="/ ">
<img src="/modules/mod_pagepeel_banner/assets/bg.png " alt="" />
<div class="peeloverlay"></div>
<span class="page-peel-banner-img" style="background:#FFFFFF url(/modules/mod_pagepeel_banner/assets/free_offer.jpg) no-repeat right top;">TemplatePlazza</span>
</a>
</div>
<img src="/modules/mod_pagepeel_banner/assets/free_offer.jpg" alt="" style="display:none" />

If you search with Google for "Open Photographic Society" - note, including the quotes to get the sitelinks - you will see that one of the sitelinks is "TemplatePlaza".

Thanks for your assistance.
11 years 11 months ago #3 by Traveller439

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Hi Traveller439, I have checked google with keyword "Open Photographic Society" and I can't find any link with TemplatePlazza word (see the img attachment).

But I think I found the problem. It's probably because of the text "TemplatePlazza" inside the span class="page-peel-banner-img .. (although I'm not really sure a plain text can affects the google search results that much)

To fix the problem, please open file :
/modules/mod_pagepeel_banner/tmpl/default.php

Please change the tex TemplatePlazza in the code into something else (please do not remove the text as I'm not really sure what exactly the function of the text at the moment )
<span class="page-peel-banner-img" style="background:#<?php echo $peelnomirrorclr; ?> url(<?php echo (!empty($peelsmallimage)) ? $peelsmallimage : $imageurl; ?>) no-repeat <?php echo ($peeldirection == 'rt') ? 'right' : 'left'; ?> top;">TemplatePlazza</span>

Or if you can wait, you can re-download the package after we have uploaded the new fix
11 years 11 months ago #4 by andy

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Hi Traveller439, We have uploaded the fix. You can re-download the file in here :
www.templateplazza.com/products/code/joo...t/10-pagepeel-banner
Now the the text TemplatePlazza should be changed with your site title.
Please confirm
11 years 11 months ago #5 by andy

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Thanks, I appreciate the support. I will post again when I get sight of the result from Google - obviously that takes a little time to get picked up by their spider.

Regards
11 years 11 months ago #6 by Traveller439

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