google search console 403 errors

#599791
  • Resolved Anonymous
    Rank Math free

    I get this error when I try to resubmit a page in GSC. Any ideas? Pages are indexed already and shown in sitemap. I get it in at least 3 websites using different plugins, themes.

    In GSC there is no error category for 403 now.

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  • Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math support and we apologize for the inconvenience.

    We have tested your page and it seems Google can access and read your page without any issues (https://i.rankmath.com/i/aMVij8, https://i.rankmath.com/i/1jJDpg). So this might be a temporal issue, you might want to try resubmitting your page to Google again.

    It also looks like you’re using Cloudflare. By default, Cloudflare is set to bypass known bots like Googlebot, but sometime this might not be the case – Cloudflare may be restricting Googlebot access intermittently. To fix this try finding which Cloudflare service is blocking Googlebot. Visit your Cloudflare Dashboard > Security > Events and filter events using Googlebot’s user agent (or part of it), IP addresses, etc. Once you find events where Googlebot is being blocked you can modify the relevant settings to prevent this from happening.

    We hope this help.

    Anonymous
    Rank Math free

    Hi. Solved. The issue was due to a server mod sec which -for some weird reason- was blocking google bot. Stupid, right? They found out and removed it and GSC works fine too.

    Hello,

    Glad that everything has been sorted out.

    Please feel free to reach out to us again in case you need any other assistance.

    We are here to help.

    Thank you.

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