Help! What did I do wrong?

Hi Everyone,

A couple months ago I created my very first sniper site, which started out on the middle of page two for google.

After adding more pages and doing article submissions (4 well-spun articles, to about 1000 sites each via Article Marketing Robot to 100 sites a day with no pings, so backlinks could be "discovered" naturally) I got to position 10 on page 1.

After three weeks, of this, and occasional blog comments, I moved back down to page 2.

Next I tried creating forum registration profile links, between 20-30 per day, with pings for about 3 weeks.

After a month of doing this, last week I started the google dance, and I ended up on page *6*. (this is my home page we are talking about. One of my inner pages is on page 2 of google and has not moved since the site went live. All of my backlink efforts were to the homepage)

What did I do wrong?

I put some much effort into this site, I'm really disappointed and frustrated.

Can someone enlighten me?

I was trying to get my website:
maskersfortinnitus(dot)com to rank for "maskers for tinnitus".

I feel like an idiot.

I've easily put a hundred hours into my site by now, haven't made a cent and I've only been punished for my efforts.

What should I do?

Any suggestions would be really appreciated.

Thanks!