Our current framework for sites was built on the Boilerplate HTML5 mobile framework to begin with, however we have done a lot of customization and upgrades in the css to push the edge on speed. We must be doing something right because the last six sites we've launched have shown up on Google's index between the 22 and 29 spots.
As a matter of fact Google was indexing our sites so quickly that on one of them they grabbed filler content before we had even submitted the site to them. To make sure that didn't happen again we started using a robots.txt file to block sites in development from being indexed too soon. However, this led to a surprise as well.
In the last few days, we finished our new Charleston-SEO.net site and began submitting it to Google and installing Analytics and Webmaster tools and sitemaps and all the other things you need to do to properly launch a site. Normally after I do this I do a search and take a look at the keyword category to get a feel for which sites are already there.
While doing this step, I was surprised to find that www.charleston-seo.net had already bounced into the Google index and #29, even though they had not been able to crawl the site due to the robots.txt file. In place of the normal description, they had placed the following notification...
