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Curious, I clicked the "More pages from this site" link near one of our other results and found power_widgets.html at the top of the list. (This is the results page labeled "Your search was restricted to 'www.mycompany.com'".) The results were totally different when running the query "power widgets site:www.mycompany.com" (without the quotes, of course) -- the power_widgets.html site is not at the top of the results.
So here is what I'm wondering: is there perhaps a search-specific over optimization penalty that only applies to certain very competitive searches. As a point of comparison, all of my pages are built with the same template, and a search for "power widgets mycompany" (again without the quotes) also returns the missing page in the top slot (although its title happens to match the search query very closely).
As far as other metrics, a link analysis report shows that my URL has a high percentage of backlinks from the same Class C IP range (but not more than some of the top 10 sites). Also, it may be worth noting that I have the keywords in 100% of those links, while other top 10 sites go no higher than 98% for the words. Our keyword density is middle of the pack for this term, around 6%.
Some other notes: the cache of the page looks correct (lack of cache for other unfindable URLs is a different post altogether :) )
Thanks in advance for your help! This is my first post but I'm in awe of the collective knowledge in these forums.
