Question 403 Errors in Google Webmasters Crawl Errors

[RobAC]

I installed DragonByte SEO on my site (imported settings from vbseo), and I'm now seeing over 1,000 403 No access errors in my Google Webmasters Crawl Errors report.

All of the links that are yielding 403 errors are in the following format as an example:

/forums/post857203-6.html
/forums/post433859-3.html
/forums/post826614-174.html

...and they're all linked in the gzipped sitemaps such as:

/forums/sitemap_forum_20.xml.gz

What is causing this???

 

[Fillip H.]

DBSEO sitemaps will by default come from /forums/store_sitemap/dbseo_sitemap_X.xml.gz
Make sure you have disabled all other sitemap generators like vBSEO Sitemap Generator, and vB's built-in XML Sitemap generator.

For two, the reason why you're receiving 403 errors (which, btw, is working as intended and a good thing) is that those posts are not accessible to guests. 403 errors tells Google not to attempt to index these posts.

 

[Fillip H.]

As this issue has received no further replies, I'm marking it as Answered and closing this thread.

If you believe this issue persists, please start a new thread. Thank you