Huge spike in "access denied" in search console

[fbchris]

Hey Guys,

We have seen a huge spike in "Access Denied" status in the google search console for our website and I have no idea why that would be the case.  Is there anyone that can shed some light on what is going on or who can point me in the direction of an SEO specialist that we can pay to fix the issue??

Thanks

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[Alick300]

Hi,

Access denied means Googlebot can’t crawl the page. Unlike a 404, Googlebot is prevented from crawling the page in the first place.

To know about access denied in detail please check section C here @ https://moz.com/blog/how-to-fix-crawl-errors-in-google-search-console

Hope this helps.

Thanks

[fbchris]

Thanks!