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February 2005 - Posts

What's in a name?
We've had a lot of people comment on the "Dozing Dogs" name - blank looks are common, but most people smile and tell us they like it. But what does it mean? First, the Dogs part I have read a lot of marketing books over the years, and a universal theme Read More...
Just a clever way to get inbound links..
..but I still can't resist it. The clock [that was 1 ] on the home page of www.CoverYourASP.NET comes from www.ClockLink.com , showing the time here in Roswell, GA and in Dozing Dogs orange to boot! As seen on Jason Alexander's blog .. 1 Update 2/28: Read More...
Don't forget your robots.txt!
Big oops. Today I received an email out of the blue from Google, warning me that this site was not being indexed because I had forbidden them from doing so! My robots.txt file was: User-agent: * Disallow: / Which in English means "whoever you are, please Read More...
Go Daddy!
Oh, I forgot to mention GoDaddy. After reading Bob Parsons' blog today I have to search to see if he ever did write a book. Why? He built GoDaddy with his own money; no investors It's the #1 domain name provider He had the balls to air that Super Read More...
The new and improved MSN search
Traffic spiked this week at www.dozingdogs.com ; apparently we're #7 on the first page on MSN search when searching for “Dogs”. I guess MSN do have such a thing as page rank for us to get so high for such a generic term. http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=dogs Read More...
I should have done this in the first place
This morning the www.DozingDogs.com web site was switched over to requiring a user to register and confirm their membership email before they can download a trial version. My original thinking was that I didn't want to put people off when they first visited Read More...