I receive quite a few panic emails from companies who have paid people to blog comment on their behalf and are now trying to get links removed in case Google come down on them and kick them out of their beloved search engine. If it is a rubbish comment then I will have no problem deleting it but a lot of the time the comment is a quality one. My blog is no-follow so any links you leave in my comment section will not do anything to hinder your Google rankings, this is what I tell most of them and they will go away quite happy and relieved – apart from one company. I received an email asking me to remove their links from my comments, I was about to send them the standard “don’t worry, blog no-follow†email when I noticed they wanted me to remove 191 links (over a four year period) – 191 LINKS! I told them that this was a lot of comments for me to remove one by one (I would like to keep the comments and just remove the links if I can) and explained that my blog was no-follow and would have no bearing on their Google standing. They then threatened me with submitting my site URL to Google’s Disavow tool and this would result in my site being blacklisted from Google. I don’t know much about this tool, is this true? Will I be banished by the mighty Google for not removing this company’s 191 links from my no-follow blog?
The disavow tool is for telling Google to ignore the links from a specific website. In no case you can get blacklisted because of this.
So they paid people to spam your website and want you to do them some sort of favor now? Yeah, no... Personally, I'd ignore them. Or offer removal for $5 per link.
I've had many people ask me to remove their links. I tell them NO... straight up... I tell them I do not have time to remove links for people all day long. and tell them to disavow the links. I have actually had people pay me to do it after I said no so I did but I just either ignore them or tell them no. "F" them, who has time to work on other peoples SEO all day.