DavidJudge - 6:19 am on Nov 12, 2012 (gmt 0)

Normally, we like to try to avoid site topics too, but let's let this one go.

Oops, my bad. So we don't go too deeply into it, I have seen this same template used elsewhere and it is current indexed with PR. I checked the footer links (using a backlink tool) and they've actually used their business name on each backlink.

When I look at the link building they're done to the site, nothings really standing out. Sure there are a couple of questionable links, but only a very small handful.

you might run it through copyscape to make sure it is not a duplicate of another site.

Yeah, did that too and the content shows up as unique.

I must admit, this one has me stumped which was the reason for the post here.

The only thing I can think it the robots.txt file.

It has a lot of disallows from third party spiders and also has -

User-agent: Adsbot-Google
Disallow:

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow:

I believe this is only an issue when you have the trailing slash.

I must admit, I had never come across the letter I posted in my first post before.

This was from the Google Ad Team.