How many backlinks are to many to fast?

I have only seen two companies get in trouble with Google for building links too fast...

But in both cases, both players admitted to doing shady SEO tricks at the same time... LOL

In both cases, the offending parties had built more than 5,000 links in a few weeks, but they had also done other things that could have been the actual trigger for the Google smackdown...

If I can jump on to this topic.

If you have a new domain, don't build 1000k first week. This is unnatural except if you have a super duper website that is really something special, which I doubt anyone has.

When your site is at least a few months old 3+ you can build about 50-100 per day easily. It really depends how much content you have and activity. You don't want to cramp 1000s of backlinks to your home domain but forget to deep link.

Here is my question.

If you post an article to let's say Ezinearticles.com, we all know they are established and it's an old domain.

Does Google look at your article as a single page or as a whole? Like if you build 1000s of backlinks to this 1 article. Will Google notice.
Ezines get 1000s of links per day, but not to one article, what are your experiences with this?

Is it ok to build 10k backlinks to an ezine article first 14 days or not? Will Google penalize you?

Thanks

Well Google sandbox exists and I'm just trying to figure out how it works. Want to know what not to do.

The fact is, if Google sandbox exists, which it does, because otherwise Google would lose on quality, there is a way to "disable" their competitors websites. It's just that not too many people do it. If you build a lot 100s of thousand bad quality spam links in 3 days to small niche site, idk somehow it is possible to disable somebody's website it's just that it doesn't happen so often.

So what you are saying Alexa that you can build thousands of backlinks first weeks of a brand new domain and not get near sandboxed?
Well other people say it happens quickly. Now I really don't know what to think.

Most places have recommended 1 or 2 backlinks per day - favoring a slow buildup of trust from search engines.

Wow this response had me laughing all over the place.

My experience with Google and my involvement in SEO in a whole has led me to believe that Google has something akin to a point system.

When I create a new site and I allow Google to index it I make sure that the Google bot is finding my site from a variety of sources (articles, web 2.0 and social bookmarking). Google's goal is to deliver the most relevant and up to date information possible so... how would a sandbox help this goal?

I've never had a site sandboxed for more than 1 -2 days. I just slow-down my link building and have it seem more natural... I water down the web 2.0 sites and start doing more social bookmarking of third tier links.

But I digress, the Google point system evaluates how it finds your website initially, what types of links are coming to it. For instance, if you initially blast your website with forum links and blog comments that also have websites that are spamming it then by association your website is considered spam. As a result your trust factor with Google is reduced and now you have to prove your site worthy.

BUT I find if you use the usual route (article marketing, social bookmarking and web 2.0) initially then you are fine. Then start backlinking your backlinks.

Google isn't that complicated. People are just impatient and do things they know doesn't make sense... Like blasting 10,000 links all at once.

My .02

Well I completely disagree. It doesn't work that way in real life. But I encourage people to think that it does, especially my competitors!

And for all my competitors out there: the best idea is to NEVER submit your pages to Digg. I launched a new site and submitted it to Digg and it caught on. OH NO! Within about 36 hours my site had almost 9,000 backlinks! You really, really don't want that.

No, no it doesn't.

Well, I certainly encourage you to continue to believe that.

Start building backlinks again....if your still in the index then you site is in good shape....your content lost freshness, competitition out ranked you, etc....just start steadily building links again to the site and see what happens.

I would probably look into the niche again to test the waters to see if it's worth trying to salvage the site first.....enough traffic volume, beatable competitions, etc.

hope that helps