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    • bonnierSEO
      bonnierSEO last edited by

      What is the best way to handle interstitial ads for the search engines? We saw in Google Webmaster Tools a big spike in 403 errors all from interstitial ad URLs.

      Would noindex work? Blocking the /interstitial in our robots.txt file? Will that affect the search engines from moving past the ad URL.

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      • NakulGoyal
        NakulGoyal last edited by

        It really depends how they are being served to the users and the bots. do you always display them ? Why is it causing a 403 / Forbidden error code ?

        Post / PM me the URL and that would make it easy to check and suggest accordingly.

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