If you make som links to the articles, then they will being indexed faster. And then you faster will se results in SERPS.
By saying that you have to build links continuously, every day, don't you negate your own business, which is linking to high ranked pages? Do those links stay because you monitor them? Can't the "newbie" monitor them also?
SEO takes time. Moving up in the search engines take time as well. Continue to build good quality backlinks and you should seeing movement.
wrong move, you should start with blog network submission (think of MAN, AR, UAW, Llinkvana, etc). my serp moves from beyond 100 to 20 in just a week. the next week, you can start with an article submission service (cost only $5 at fiverr) i don't know about u but outsourcing is the easiest way to build ur links. used to build my links by doing exactly what u did and I got nothing lot of wasted time. hope it helps