link removal tool. Lauren Hartman I've been working on removing hundreds and hundreds of questionable backlinks for a client of ours. On the one hand, I totally understand charging money for removing a link, because manually removing anything takes up precious time, especially if you're getting hundreds of these. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that our client has not been submitting their website to directories for months now, and we're still getting new backlinks from directories. I'm worried these new directories will ask us to pay them to remove these links, when we definitely did not put them there. So I see both sides of this argument...it's a tricky question. ttp://www.reaseo.com/ Jerry Mosher And the pot calls the kettle black. I doubt your splogs are causing anyone a penalty. It a shame people think they have to rely on Google traffic so much and that they believe some directory links or auto splog links will hurt them. If links like these can hurt your site that easily Google will die off with bad SERPs. ttp://www.facebook.com/gus.vdwalt Gus Van der Walt I read an awesome article on SEOmoz yesterday regarding the link warnings and the effects of spammy links. Rand had asked for spam links and obviously got loads. In the results their site wasn't affected at all. So essentially if you have a rather decent natural link profile a couple of these links shouldn't affect your site. I get that the younger or less links you have it can