Not that I can blame developers for wanting to do a little advertising in their Open Source creations distributed under the GNU Public license, but it can be bit troublesome.

I have 3 sites where I've installed !JoComment 4.0 alpha3 by Compojoom.com. All three sites started to receive hits for the phrase "Powered by !JoComment". That's not exactly one of the terms I was hoping to get ranked in the search engines. Needless to say, I started looking for ways to remove it.

Go to SITEROOT/components/com_comment/joscomment/ and open comment.class.php in an appropriate editor. Search for "function insertPoweredby()". Once located change the "return" statement like so;

Original;

return '<div id="poweredby" align="center" class="small">Powered by <a target="_blank" href="http://compojoom.com">!JoomlaComment '."4.0alpha3".'</a></div>'

Modified;

return '';

As you can I've simply emptied the content between the ' marks.

While you are there you may have noticed "function insertHiddenCopyright()". You might want to remove that one too!

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