Aaron, that's what I was thinking, because even though it may be fair to charge it sure sounds like extortion.  But then if the links are legit then we shouldn't have to have them removed anyway. This has just left me racking my brain to think if I have any reason to even worry about it.  I doubt it. I'll wait for the tool Google says they will release. newyorker_1 there is no extortion If you willingly added your links there. There is a legit right of the owner to ask for a fee for his manual labor for removing those links. If you didn't put your links there, now that's extortion. the sad thing here is that a guy that has 100 directories is still in the Google index. He should be thrown out long time ago and you shouldn't worry about those links... Its not extortion to charge a fee for link removal -- I run a network of autoblogs with articles from article directories. The twits who submitted articles to ezine, goarticles etc now spam me wanting me to remove their link. Guess what its going to cost you $50 for my efforts and if you don't like it then you can sit back and enjoy you Google penalties. Serves you right for trying to please the a-holes in Redwood. andreascy Humans are evil. They do anything today in order to earn some money. Such a pathetic tactic! Knowledge always was the power and always will be