Planet13 - 4:42 pm on May 7, 2012 (gmt 0)

@ Marketing Guy

The problem is if they do beat the bushes enough and scare people into giving their data, then they could have enough to footprint a lot of link building activities which could impact the rest of the industry in the future.

I think you nailed it on the head.

@ aristotle

It's hard for me to think of a more tedious, time-consuming, and likely unproductive task.

Exactly!

@ netmeg

...but that's not what they're going for - they're trying to discourage the behavior.

Precisely!

like that ever works

Even more precisely (preciser?)