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Back in business! Thanks for the help Chris!

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

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

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

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?

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?

Fetch is good. No errors with fetch or render.

The only update I made was from WooCommerce 2.2 to 2.3. This has not effected the output or markup of anything of importance.

Are you located in the USA?

No manual webspam actions found.

From what I can tell - I have no manual penalty.

Is there a way to check this outside Webmasters Tools?

I'm not seeing the homepage at all in the index. I've checked on outside computers with myself not being logged into google here in Florida.
My analytic data is confirming that there is a definite drop of hits to the homepage.

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the reply.

All HTTPS is blocked by design to keep from any possible duplicates with HTTP.

Michael Shinosky

Hi Keszi,

Thanks for the reply.

Being a WordPress site - I have not touched the format of the canonical tags since I took over managing the website in April of 2014.

Michael Shinosky

Happened sometime on the 12th or 13th of Feb (is there a way to tell exactly besides referring to GA?). 
I've been on the Google Webmasters Tools forums trying to nail this down - https://productforums.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/webmasters/OgpmNCc3IFA/mmtgUilyXUUJ

I can only think that Google is viewing this as duplicate content from an internal page for example: http://mudlifeled.com/shop

Very frustrating because we were moving up on the first page for some good brand key words and traffic was climbing.

Now I've got my hands up and am at a loss to what I can do.