Homepage not showing up in Bing.com search index

[frankylino]

The homepage for my website is suddenly not showing up in the Bing.com search index. However, all my additional supporting pages are still showing. Just the homepage isn't showing up.

I had loads of trouble with my web host 10 days ago resulting in my site being down for 48 hours, and then for 18 hours three days later.

Was this temporary outage the reason for my homepage currently being out of the index, or is there perhaps another reason?

[vincevincevince]

Bing is a bit of an untamed beast at the moment! Pick some phrases from your homepage, search for them in Bing and Google, check someone isn't somehow forcing you out through sneaky tricks.

[sobole]

I can't understand it either. Search engines today make you jump through hoops.

[piatkow]

I just did a test on a particular search arguement and had three different pages from my site as separate results on page 1. The home page happened to be top but it is quite feasible that it could come lower, even several pages lower.

There are so many veriables that it is difficult to say. Prolonged outages could easily be an issue but I find it suprising that these would only affect the home page. As vincevincevince says, test some phrases that are specific to the home page.