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    Why does my on-page report card say my page title is 403 forbidden when its not?

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    • jamesj35mm
      jamesj35mm last edited by

      I'm trying to get on top of my on page stuff and I'm going through the SEO Moz on-page report cards and it says I'm scoring a fail on certain elements within the 'critical' and 'high importance' factors as my page title is '403 forbidden' but when I go on to my site, my sites CMS it's not '403 forbidden' it's the text I entered?

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      • AlanMosley
        AlanMosley last edited by

        do you have a url

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        • jamesj35mm
          jamesj35mm @AlanMosley last edited by

          http://www.robinsonsofbawtry.com/brands/jeffery-west/index.html

          That's one of them.

          Any help is greatly appreciated!

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          • AlanMosley
            AlanMosley @jamesj35mm last edited by

            Juist crawled your site and got this
            The link to 'http://www.robinsonsofbawtry.com/' has resulted in an error.
            Details: 403 Forbidden

            Cant see anything wrong aty a glance, may be your server cant handle being crawled, witch of cause is not good

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            • MRCSearch
              MRCSearch @jamesj35mm last edited by

              Further to Alan, if I manually change user-agent to something unknown, the site 403's. Are you or your host using any sort of user-agent detection funkiness?

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              • jamesj35mm
                jamesj35mm @jamesj35mm last edited by

                Hmmm, that's worrying. I use a content delivery network to try and keep my page load speeds up, do you think it could be something to do with that? Thanks for your help Alan.

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                • jamesj35mm
                  jamesj35mm @jamesj35mm last edited by

                  I have no idea what that means?!

                  As I'm quite new to this I put my trust in them that they're giving me a 'fully SEO friendly' set-up but I guess it's easy for them to cut corners since I'm not totally up to speed on technical things.

                  Is there a question I should put to my service provider that will get that info?

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                  • MRCSearch
                    MRCSearch @jamesj35mm last edited by

                    I'd check with your delivery network. Might be something on their end. Or it might be that my user-agent switcher isn't working properly (it has happened before).

                    A further hmm:

                    Xenu 403's, but Screaming Frog doesn't.

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                    • AlanMosley
                      AlanMosley @jamesj35mm last edited by

                      You can ask them why SEOMoz and I get those errors. I looked at your robots.txt its not blocking so I am not sure.

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                      • jamesj35mm
                        jamesj35mm @jamesj35mm last edited by

                        The company I use for hosting etc actually have an account on here so I've private messaged them with a link to this thread, hopefully they'll get to the bottom of it.

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                        • AlanMosley
                          AlanMosley @jamesj35mm last edited by

                          Thats Handy

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