Dilemma

A while back I parted ways with a client. Per our agreement, I and only I, was going to do anything to the site, including getting backlinks. Things were going fine, but my client thought I was moving too slowly.

So, he let some acquaintance of his convince him to buy 3500+ backlinks from the acquaintance's site (established longer than my client and has more traffic).

To make matter worse, all 3500 backlinks had the same stupid anchor text (the name of a competitor's company and a date. Don't ask.)

To make matter worser, all of this happened 3 weeks before the first Penguin update.

I was not happy, told him how to fix it but I was not going to fix it for free. He said, using kinder euphemisms, that I was ridiculous.

I said, Good-bye.

Now, the dilemma.

Today, Godaddy sent me a notification that one of my domain names is set to auto renew in February.

Turns out, it's a domain I bought for the client who thought I was ridiculous for wanting to be paid for my work.

I forgot about it. But, I created a wordpress site on it, with 5 or 6 posts. It's got a few links to this guys' main site, his phone number at the top, his logo.

It's hosted on my hosting account.

I paid for the domain.

My agreement with him was did not include me building any sites for him. Just that I would double the number of prospects he gets online, and that I'd double his conversion rates.

I did bought. I decreased the total number of visitors to the site, increased the number of qualified ones. The net result, he had 2 inquiries a year from his site before I got to him, the month we parted, he'd increased his business by 15%. The extra 15% came from the site.

My dilemma comes from this. Though I did not have an agreement with him to create him additional sites, I did and let it be live (but not ranking) for about 1 year. (Had godaddy not notified me, I'd have let it forever.)

Do I owe him anything? I don't want to even call him to tell him I'm taking back my site.