On webmaster tools it shows my home page hasn't been crawled since December 3. However, google downloads my sitemap every few days, diagnosis shows HTTP errors and not found errors as recent as January 2 (reason being I took some pages down so google must think their still indexed and check for them?....sitemap was updated pruned about 20pages) I see googlebot 2.1 in my logs but why won't it visit my home page?
Be patient. Just try to get links from site that is frequently updated. Anyway can a view your site links?
You must try to get more backlinks to your website Some of the ways with which you can get backlinks are: 1. Article Submission 2. Directory Submission 3. Link Exchange You can even buy links to your website
google crawls my site all the time, especially since i put sitemap generation + search engine notify in my crontab.
Could be considered as supplemental page ;-) Any way get some quality back links (External and internal) to your homepage.