Access Denied - 2508 Errors - 403 Response code in webmaster tools

[sourabhrana39]

Hello Fellow members,

From 9th may I am getting this error messages & these crawl errors is increasing daily. Google is not able to crawl my URLS & getting 403 response code & saying ACCESS Denied Errors in GWT. My all Indexed pages are de-indexed.

Why I am receiving this errors ? My website is working fine but why Google is not able to crawl my pages. PLEASE TELL ME what is the ISSUE, I need to resolve ASAP

on 9th may I got a message in GWT as well for "http://www.mysitename.co.uk/ Increase in authorization permission errors "

Google detected a significant increase in the number of URLs we were blocked from crawling due to authorization permission errors.

After this all problem started. Kindly tell what is the issue & how can I solve this.

WGsu8pU

[evolvingSEO]

Hi There

Without seeing your website it's hard to tell for sure. But a 403 error usually has to do with permissions (who/what your server will allow to access the content).

Have you recently put anything behind a password?

If you have Screaming Frog SEO Spider you can try setting it to Googlebot as the user agent and try crawling your site.

You can also use a header checker like URI Valet to see what server response is returned. It sounds like Googlebot is getting one response while normal browsers are seeing it fine (200 codes).

If you are absolutely not sure, and can not share your site name, I would contact your webhost to look into any issues with the server.

-Dan