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Great to hear that someone from your company can go! We don't typically allow questions to be deleted. My best suggestion is to go and edit your original post to say that the ticket has been claimed. Thanks!

Keep nofollowing your links everyone - eventually we'll break Google!

They've messed up in general really. They should be blocking robots to what appears to be the CMS for their clients use as there are surely numerous effects on their clients (cannibalization caused by the duplication of pages, for instance). As Mike said they've not taken into account the SEO aspects of the way they've implemented their system.

Thanks for the thanks, Patrick G. An amusing sidelight: one company that refused my request for company email had previously  entrusted me with use of their corporate credit card -- and continued to do so after refusing my request. Go figure. (sigh)

I'll refer to a question we had no very long ago on the same subject - http://moz.com/community/q/how-to-tell-the-date-a-link-was-created Quick note even though you didn't start using them the bot still would have crawled the site etc. you just wouldn't of been able to access the data.