It has been a week and a half since we launched http://www.angelsgeek.org and already our SEO efforts are paying off. I have outlined a general time line below and as new SEO movements are made, we will update this post to include our new results.
We have posted this entry in an effort to allow you to see how we handle SEO as an SEO company by using our website to experiment with new tactics.

• October 20, 2008
• Our new site launches on our new domain.
• October 22, 2008
• Google crawls our site for the first time.
• October 25, 2008
• Internet Archiver crawls our site for the first time, deep crawl.
• October 28, 2008
• Snap Preview profiles our site for image indexation
• October 29, 2008
• Our site obtains an Alexa rating, 7,438,008
• October 30, 2008
• Google performs a deep crawl of our site for the first time
• XML sitemap generation is complete and submitted
• October 31, 2008
• Yanga World Search Bot discovers our new site, performs a deep crawl.
• November 1, 2008
• Yahoo has discovered 2 links pointing back to our site.
• Our Alexa rating has dropped to 4,334,936 which is a good improvement since we first gained a rating.
• November 2, 2008
• Yahoo has crawled our site for the first time.
• November 3, 2008
• Google has included our site in the index results, currently 3 pages indexed.
• November 4, 2008
• Aboutus.org has crawled our site for a directory listing
• November 5, 2008
• Our Alexa rating has dropped again to 3,092,170
• Google has included our site in the index results, currently 12 pages indexed.
• November 10, 2008
• Our Alexa rating has dropped again to 2,394,567
• Google has included our site in the index results, currently 31 pages indexed.
• November 13, 2008
• Our Alexa rating has dropped again to 2,067,563
• Cuil has discovered our website and has started indexing the domain
• November 17, 2008
• Our Alexa rating has dropped again to 1,845,256
• Exabot has discovered our website and has started indexing the domain
• November 19, 2008
• Our Alexa rating has dropped again to 1,669,310
• Our tracking system has been moved to a new platform and we receive up-to-the minute responses
• November 23, 2008
• Our Alexa rating has dropped again to 1,502,347
• Exabot has started indexing our website.
• December 1, 2008
• Our Alexa rating has dropped again to 1,149,607
• Our initial HubSpot Website Grader grade is 70, starting off with a C rank, that’s not to bad!

As a web development company I get asked the question many times, what is SEO and what can it do for me?
Over the last few years as I practice and help websites increase their own SEO strategy, I have learned a few lessons, common lessons, that many people tend to over look or do not consider.
Search Engine Optimization after all is the art and practice of search engine rankings, but while I worked for a year of doing nothing but increasing clients websites in the rankings, I realized that their is more to increasing traffic then SEO. Many search engines will tell you that content is king and writing natural content is the best way to get rankings and yes writing natural content is the best thing you can do, and optimizing a site for the human user is also the best thing you can do. Just keep in mind that other websites out their do not agree with this and as such employ tactics to tell search engines what their page is about, working to get their rankings up. This is SEO, the art of improving site rankings and while it would be nice to live in a world where we do not have people using unethical methods to obtain better rankings, we currently do live in that world.
When I optimize a site for search engines, I do so keeping within the ethical realm and remembering that while it is good to rank better, it is also good to be ranking for what people are searching for. I can get anyone ranking for Denver CO real estate agent selling 1 bedroom homes, but is that what people are searching for? I can also work to get a website ranking for Denver CO homes for sale, but again does the content on your website live up to this term. There is nothing worse then performing a search, getting results and clicking on a result to find the site is nothing what you are looking for. This creates a negative feeling and impression about your site. So when I start optimization, I optimize a site for what it represents, working to get traffic to your site for what you are looking to get traffic for.
When I work on marketing for your site, I also remember that search engines and SEO are only one aspect. Yes people find your site via search engines and various keywords, but that is only one method. What about social networks, what about directories, what about local community pages. Their are so many websites out their, and so many possibles paths people can take to find your site, and I work to find as many of these connections as possible.
When you market a site, its not about SEO, it is about building an ethical network of related sites that are working to better their industry and community, and this will lead to the best traffic for your site.

Its not about the search engines, its about the humans reaching your site.

Our first birthday bash was underway this weekend and as a group of friends and family we all had a lot of fun. Our weekend events started late night Saturday as several of us headed out to have some fun at cosmic bowling and it was a great time spent with our close friends. We bowled for over 2 hours and between the 5 of us there we had a good time and managed to finish 3 games.
The next day started off just as well as our parents and families headed to Denver to join us and we all had fun going to the free day at the zoo and seeing the new dinosaur exhibit at the museum. It was a wonderful warm sunny day and it was great to spend time outside with family as we relaxed and celebrated a birthday.

Welcome again to our blog which is run by some great people all with creative minds and a desire to help the Internet grow.
We use this page to introduce our staff members and fellow bloggers, and while their personal identities are not revealed as we take privacy very seriously, we do hope you can get to know the people that work at Angelsgeek Web Development.

ANGELSGEEK
I am Angelsgeek, and if you know me personal or know of my grand tale then you know why I am referred to as Angelsgeek and why that has so much meaning to me. It is something I am proud of and something I am glad to carry into my work. If you participate in any of the various programming/computer/hacking forums and you come across a username of Angelsgeek chances are that is my handle. I do participate in many forums, several of which include:

1. Dream.In.Code
2. HackThisSite
3. God Bit
4. Christian Webmasters
5. Search Engine Land
6. Sphinn
7. Reddit

I have been programming since I was only 13 years old, although all of my life I have been fascinated with computers, games and how they work and how I can change them to fit my personal needs. I started by learning HTML back when Hypercard bored me in school, and I have been working to improve my skills ever since then. I currently practice and know HTML, XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Python, Java and I am in the process of learning Ajax and C#.
In general I am an all around computer geek who loves to program and loves to spend time with family.

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We use this blog as a means to allow you to see what we are like as people and as a development company, so please leave any comments you wish, feedback, and suggestions for future blog topics.

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This website, www.angelsgeek.org, is a business website as well as an educational website. Our growing skills of our programmers allows them to work on our website as if it was a piece of software and we treat it as such. As our programmers learn new skills, develop new features we release them on our site, and as such we always have an ever improving website.
Our version number is always increasing and while this is nothing to watch for, it does mean something new was done to our website. Most of the time we only note the changes, unless it is something major, then we will release a detail blog post.
Again our website is here to showcase our talents and skills as well as allow our newbie programmers a place to play, as we experiment on our site and not those of sites we do work for.

VERSION 1.0.1
-Fixed various errors from our first system push, specifically in our news feed.

Thank you,
Angelsgeek

Angelsgeek Today is our companies blog, and we already know what you are thinking . . . what does this blog have to offer from the millions of others out on the Internet?
Angelsgeek Today is a simple blog that we offer to update you with the inner workings of the minds at Angelsgeek Web Development.
We will post various topics on the development of our site, SEO news, web development news and much more, pretty much anything that comes up in the minds of our staff.

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