403 Forbidden

How to fix it

Check auth rules, IP allowlists, and crawler user-agent blocks. Open the page to public traffic if it should be indexed.

Sibling checks in this category

• 404 Not Found - The page returns 404. Search engines drop it from the index and inbound links waste their authority.
• 409 Conflict - The server reports the request conflicts with current state. Often a deployment or data race issue.
• 4xx client error - The page returned a 4xx response other than 403/404/409. The URL is unreachable for crawlers.
• 500 Internal Server Error - The server crashed handling this URL. Repeated 500s deindex the page over time.

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