Need help determining how much damage I've done to my SERPs...
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I'm very new to SEO, but dived in with both feet a couple of weeks ago after purchasing a domain for my new business.
I'm a photographer, and my new business was a niche of photography, where the keyword was in the domain name. Competition wasn't particularly massive, only 1900 searches a month in my local area, so I spent about two hours reading about SEO, then got to work.
I laid my site out with about 2.5% keyword density, and started building backlinks. I registered on hundreds of business directories, manually, etc, until I got bored. Then I created web 2.0 content, spun a couple of articles from my blog, and uploaded them pointing back to my site. Bought some facebook followers, manually earned myself 500 twitter followers in a week. It was all going great.
I jumped on Fiverr, and bought a couple of the well ranked gigs, and had some good success.
At the end of the third day, I was ranking on the first page and occasionally slipping down into the second. This was 20 days ago.
Recently, stupidly, I now realise, I purchased a package from another forum, with 15k backlinks. The guy ended up giving me 28k!
Anyway, links were all terrible. Random blogs, porn sites, etc.. Huge mistake on my part. I ended up having my url put on the Askimet spam list (removed today). This wasn't some bozo, by the way, it was someone getting rave reviews on another popular SEO forum.
SERPs instantly took a hit, and have been dropping since. 5 days in, and I'm now down to page 6, and I assume it'll go lower.
Question is, how much damage have I likely done to my site, and what can I expect to happen in the short term and long term?
I've been concentrating on building quality links since, but slowly this time.
Has anyone got any advice, or can anyone tell me what's going on? Is this the Google dance, or have I just killed my site?
Is my site ever likely to return to its original position? If so, how long?
Lesson learned, before anyone calls me a dumbass for buying the links!
Thanks
John
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