Chatmaster, these activities were handled in very confidentially manner and in a totally separate department from the casino management department and this was the root of the problem. Casino management were in no way involved in how these people were doing their work. This situation has since changed radically. They are now directly under JF casino management.
Loyd, thanks for the reply.
Loyd, first of all I want you to know that I speak my mind and this in no way is a personal attack towards you as I would not want to trade places with you. Casino management cannot distance themselves from what has happened here and has to realise that they had a responsibility in supervising this, regardless of who did this, they run the casino and carry the responsibility that goes with it. For those of us who are running respectable/reputable affiliate sites trust casino operators to take that reponsibilty. I do see in David Brickman’s post this seems to be the case though.
I can draw a picture in mind that you most probably outsourced your SEO and this is how this happened (I have seen this many times before). I am burning to know who you outsourced it to though, not to go public but just to know, as I am well respected in the SEO community. Anyways…
Back to the problem! Certainly sorting this out ASAP can be very quickly accomplished. Especialy with the sites that are registered through Spiral. Obtaining a domain list from them should be quick. Designing a template page for each of those domains and then setting up 301’s or IIS permanent redirects for those sites to that single page can then buy you the time to fix these domains and make us feel better.