My experiment

I own another great domain name.

It is newjerseyshorevacationrentals dot com.


I copied the problem page to this domain. I altered the content, but left all of the html the same to see if I could get the page to index.

I was able to.

I'm just not sure how to interpret the results.

Now a PR5

Well, looks like the site went from PR4 to PR5.

But, still has this problem.

An error at Google?

I am hypothesizing that there is a possible error at google. What else could this problem possibly be?

I don't think the page is penalized. Here is why I think this: The rest of the site gets a great amount of traffic. If I was bad in google's eyes, why would they still send me tons of good quality traffic to my deeper pages?

The page is indexed and is PR4, so why not show up in serps for any search phrase (even the most noncompetitive phrase you could think of)

I follow the webmaster guidelines.

I don't think it's a technical issue. If it was technical, I think other search engines would have the same problem. If yahoo and msn could resolve a small tech issues, then why can't the big G?

Could it be possible there is an error at google? My opinion is yes!

Other engines

This page ranks well on all other search engines. In many instances the page appears on page #1 for some good keywords in other search engines.

This makes me think there is no technical issue. If there is a technical issue, why could other engines get past it, but the "King of search" can't?