For the past year , Google has been sending out link penalty notifications for unnatural links pointing to your web site. Those notifications kicked up a notch earlier this year and since then -- especially with the Penguin update, webmasters and SEOs have been obsessed with link removals . Link Removal Fees: With this, there are many out there trying to capitalize on this fear. A reader sent us an example of a directory with a special landing page specifically designed to collect money from webmasters in order to remove links from their site. The site offers you to pay them and in exchange, they will remove the links they have pointing to your web site from their site. Yes, people are charging others to remove links that they put up. The site reads: We have been getting many requests for removal of links. We will happily do that for you. It is a manual process and we have about 100 directories. * So for $25 we will remove your URL from all our 100 directories. You just need to pay on PayPal below * If you are just after the list of 100 or directories we have then the fee is a token $2 to stop all the freebee hunters. We need to live as well. * Do you want us to search our directories for your link and give you a report then that cost is $10. This is perfect for people with few resources to check themselves.