Linkbuilding for Dummies...

In the last month, I have built over 18,000 high PR links to my site.

I have also experienced some serious Google dancing (not that I wasn't expecting it). Although I do have an established site...

Is there a point where you are actually building too many links (even if they are relevant and high quality) that Google penalizes you? I am not talking about spam links or ones that disappear as fast as you can make them. I mean really quickly indexed high PR links that are there to stay.

You hear all these stories of people scraping 100,000+ links/month and being legitimately sand-boxed and then coming back at the top of the SERP's and I was just wondering if there is ever a time when you don't need to build links at this rate anymore if you are in this situation?

Also, in my particular situation, should I slow down with my link building, or will the dance eventually just stop by itself if I continue building 20,000 high quality links a month??

Thanks

You can't ever really quit building links or content. Links vanish and the competition doesn't sleep. Eventually yours positions start to deteriorate. Keep building and Google thinks you're real.

i agree with upl8t
some sites have over 1m backlinks, and most of them garbage but they are at #1 on the big G
there is no such point to stop working on seo, in any moment a competitor can overrank you