Or if you want a more authoritative page on PageRank, you can hear it from the "father of search himself, Danny Sullivan (http://searchengineland.com/070426-011828.php).

In any event, with regards...

Which is pretty much what I said.

One page will be served. It may not be the most ideal page, but that page will be provided and all duplicate content will be filtered out.

As far as the...

No, that doesn't tell you if your site has been crawled. All those tell you if your site has been indexed.

Here's a tool that will tell you if your site has been crawled:
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The rumored sandbox says approximately 9 months. That can vary give or take a few months depending on inbound links and popularity.

Arshad: dmoz.org. Just go to their site and follow the submission instructions.

At the end of the day, dmoz.org is highly overrated. Not many people regard them as highly as they used to...

Why do I say that? Because that's what Adam Lasnik has said before (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/12/deftly-dealing-with-duplicate-content.html).

However, I see that my...

Google will serve the duplicate page. It's just a matter of Google serving the right page that you want the users to see. If you don't think the page Google provides is ideal, delete it. :)

Wow, talk about topic hijacking. I was ready to answer the PHP/ASP question but see that the question is completely different.

The correct term, nsrajesh, is "sandboxed." Typically, this is a...

Are you sure you're "banned" on MSN?

In the live.com query box, type site:yourdomain.com and see if it shows up.

I don't buy it. My thoughts:

1. The person wants to make up a story to get traffic. Don't give it to them!

2. Larry Page will never want to get rid of PageRank. Sure, people have wanted to...

I think the person who wrote about Page Rate was a little confused. ;)

Great post, Jody. It's incredibly true, too.

I wrote a blog post a few months ago about some great analytics packages...

Google had a right, but they did make some judgment mistakes when killing the PageRank of many blogs that had not ever sold links.

Personally, I've seen many people hit by this and it is...

It definitely helps a bit to be listed in DMOZ -- though theres no guarantee that it will increase your rankings. However, DMOZ is a pretty authoritative directory and it does help if you get...

Meta Keywords really have no bearing on rankings nowadays. That's because people used to use them so often to spam the search engines that the algorithm no longer focuses on keywords.

That said,...

Backlinks are critical. And yes, having content means that people will link to you whether you ask them or not. Without a doubt, build some content. Start a blog. In fact, you can share stuff...