so how do i get rid of all these links? and who put them there in the first place?
If you look at a terms page:
http://linkexpert.co.uk/page/terms-of-use.htmlyou will see athe bottom:
Important:-
Process of Link Removal-
It must be remembered that all featured links for which you have paid could be removed when a request is made by the link owner as you have paid for them. However, the free links cannot be removed with a request through email. For removal of such links, we charge $5 for each link. Since we have provided the free links for SEO purposes free of charge, the removal will be charged. This is a part of our terms and conditions. Therefore, if you don’t agree, do not use our directory.
Did you employ anyone such as an SEO'er that may have added these links, if so I would ask them if they can remove them.
If not, then I would email the above and request removal as they were added without your authorisation.
I would also add in the email that if they are not removed, you will report the site as spam to Google.
I would also include ALL the links and request that they are All removed.
In the meantime I would collect all the links (and any other spam links that you are certain of) and use the webmaster disavow tool.....disavowing each whole domain as eg- domain:bad-link-site.com (not the actual page of your listing).
So one line on the disavow text file would look like this- domain:linkexpert.co.uk
I'm sceptical at the mo if the disavow tool actually works, some say they have had succsess and others not.
I submitted a disavow file many weeks ago and still waiting to see any result.
I've seen that a google engineer says that after submission it may take several weeks for google to process the request and then
you would have to wait for the next Penguin update.