Request for help with getting back up in the search engines

Hey Everyone,

Ok my site has been up for little over a month and I've done a lot of backlinking to it. When I first got started with the site I had no idea that building a lot of backlinks in a short amount of time could be bad for your website, so keep that in mind while I try and explain the dilemma here.

I'm using an article marketing software called AMA. You basically submit an article, and using a built in article spinner get to create unique articles that are then distributed to different blogs that are related to your topic.

You can also use these articles to submit to different article directories, which I did. So what I did is I submitted articles from the article spinner to the 5 top directories, as well as created a blog on blogger.

I didn't find out until yesterday, that on some of the articles I didn't do a very good job spinning them, and through copyscape was able to locate, for several of my submitted articles, articles that were very similar - all of which were mine.

Now my site started to peak at about 120 visitors per day within the first 3 or so weeks. And then immediately after that mark, after about 4 days of getting this kind of traffic, my traffic plummeted to around 20-35 visitors per day, and this has been static since then.

I'm no longer ranking for many of the keywords that I held first position for, therfore my traffic is pretty bad. So I wondered if this might be also related to a duplicate content penalty or something since, like I said some of the articles were very similar to one another as I found them in copyscape.

I tried searching for the article titles in google and they don't show up. I tried searching for the article titles that were on my blog and they don't show up.

I'm wondering if since they aren't in google, might google have removed them due to them being similar and having a lot of the same words as other articles that I've distributed throughout the internet?

If this might be a problem, could I remedy this situation by fixing all of the articles that are similar to one another and making them totally unique? Would that get them into the search engine? Do you think they are not in google because they are similar to other articles that I've distributed?

I honestly think my site has been sandboxed as many of the articles that I've distributed to create backlinks don't even show up in google. If this were googles "dance" wouldn't these links still show up anyways? For example, all of the articles that I've submitted to searchwarp aren't in google at all.

Would I be able to delete these articles, re-write them with unique content, new titles and everything, and get them into google???

Any input would be great

Thank you everyone