Page is ranking for a term, but no results for its own URL

[triggerfinger]

I'm seeing a very strange occurrence on my site. I have several pages that, when you enter their URL into Google, you get no results. However, if you enter the main term of the page, the page is one of the first results on the SERP.

Has anyone seen this before? Any idea what it means? I believe many of my pages are being removed due to a duplicate content penalty, could this be a harbinger of a de-indexing?

Thanks in Advance...

[tedster]

That is a very unusual report. Are you sure that the "page" you are seeing in the keyword search result is the same exact URL that gets "no results"?

[triggerfinger]

Yeah, it was the same page. However the issue seems to have resolved itself.
Interesting note, some pages rank for "http://www.example.com/page", other don't, but will rank for "www.example.com/page" (sans the http). I don't see any rhyme or reason behind why some rank and others don't. Google's a bit quirky I guess.

[edited by: tedster at 3:53 pm (utc) on Apr 17, 2010]
[edit reason] switch to example.com - it can never be owned [/edit]

[johnnie]

Maybe a site:http://www.example.com query will help you sort this out?