What led me to this is I tracked their keywords and noticed a huge decline in keyword links. All the way to ZERO which is tough to do. Confused to this I did a wayback and noticed they haven’t bothered with the site since August 2007. The site looked different to today and Why would wayback ignore the site? So I looked at the robots.txt file and just started laughing.

Its going to be tough for them to prove damages because I have a feeling they did much more damage to themselves.

However this ridiculous lawsuit should be the nail in their coffin.

Regarding the robots.txt, what hey have is 100% normal and acceptable…. that is what a blank robots.txt looks like…it is simply blank. If you follow the reference link you posted down a little bit, it goes in depth a bit more and explains that a blank version as ePerks has simply says “crawl everything” ….. hope this helps….

However if ePerks tries to say their website and traffic was greatly diminished by the blog I would beg to differ because the robots.txt entry is doing more damage to their website than any negative post on a blog would.

Makes you wonder if ePerks did the robots.txt file on purpose or if its out of incompetence on the webmasters behalf.

If VLAD wants to end this just send the attorneys this link. – Look at the areas I boxed in Red.
http://www.interiorliving.com/eperks.jpg

For those who need an explanation.
http://www.robotstxt.org/faq/prevent.html

How do I prevent robots scanning my site?
The quick way to prevent robots visiting your site is put these two lines into the /robots.txt file on your server

I would estimate they did this around October/November and didnt change it.

ejerks should fire their webmaster and stop the stupid lawsuit. The robots.txt is doing much more damage to their site than any blog posting saying something negative.