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Hey Everyone,

Recently we have received a notification via Google Webmaster Tools that said:

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

Upon further investigation, I have discovered that the reason for this was an increase in the amount of 403 (forbidden) crawl errors that were being reported. When I looked into the links that were returning 403, they were all coming from external sites (shopping comparison sites and "link farmy" type sites) going to product pages. Has anybody encountered/fixed this problem in the past? Also, is this going to impact site performance?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance