Homepage is deindexed in Google

[GPainter]

I am located in the UK, however I am also finding it odd.

Couple of things I'd look into is to claim both http & https in webmaster tools, rather than block the robots, change it for a canonical tag which tells Google you're preferred domain and also can help with your link juice flow.

Have to admit I'm in a bit of a pickle though..

[Shinosky]

I ask because it seems that viewers can see the homepage outside the USA.

One of the first things I did when I took over the site in April of 2014  was claim both in webmasters tools.

I have made the canonical change as suggested. Should I keep the meta robots tag as well?

[GPainter]

No the canonical makes the robots surplus, it tells Google its a duplicate of where ever you pointed the tag to, this also means any links also sort of get redirected too (in a sense)

[GPainter]

Just an update: seems to be working now for me (I was unable to see homepage before)

[Shinosky]

I'm not seeing the homepage yet :(. Though using the canonical method did jiggle some lower level pages back into the index. Yikes - this is weird. Any other suggestions?

[GPainter]

I'm a little stumped, as it should be working (and is for me) you could try giving it a bit more time with that canonical to take affect. I've tried looking via a proxy and i can't see it in American search compared to the UK search.

did you try looking through here - http://moz.com/ugc/8-reasons-why-your-site-might-not-get-indexed 

[Shinosky]

Yeah me too

It seems others can see the home page with site:www.mudlifeled.com outside the USA. But not inside of the USA.

Everything is good from the the suggested link.

I'm banging my head against my desk...lol

[Shinosky]

Now the index is showing:

<cite class="_Rm">www.mudlifeled.com/?taxonomy=product_type&term=simple</cite>

as the first result of a site: lookup

ugh

[GPainter]

It could have just needed some more time for the canonical to work, still a bit on the odd side of things..

[Shinosky]

ok...think we are getting somewhere. When I typed this in google by accident: site://www.mudlifeled.com

The page shows up:
https://www.mudlifeled.com
Since I had the https page set to noindex - Google was not indexing it. But it still doesn't explain why the http was not indexed and why all of a sudden it is now deindexed when the way I had the site setup has been crawled like this for almost a year? Maybe Google saw enough backlinks to https and said: "hey - we want to use the https version instead. Too bad you have it set to noindex"?

Now that I have the canonical displaying from https to http on all pages - I'm hoping it reverts back to the http version and I get my keyword rank back. As of right now - I'm not seeing it in G's SERPs. fingers crossed

[Shinosky]

Back in business! Thanks for the help Chris!

[GPainter]

Glad I could help