Question Got this message in Webmaster tools

[crete]

Had DBSEO installed last week and pages are starting to be indexed now. Today I received the following message in Google Webmaster Tools, how do I fix it?

Increase in authorization permission errors:

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

Could this be related to my robots.tx?

Robots looks like this:

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:

User-agent: Fasterfox
Disallow: /

User-agent: BoardTracker
Disallow: /

Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /forum/calendar.php
Disallow: /forum/editpost.php
Disallow: /forum/misc.php
Disallow: /forum/newreply.php
Disallow: /forum/newthread.php
Disallow: /forum/printthread.php
Disallow: /forum/private.php
Disallow: /forum/register.php
Disallow: /forum/report.php
Disallow: /forum/search.php
Disallow: /forum/announcement.php
Disallow: /forum/showgroups.php
Disallow: /forum/online.php
Disallow: /forum/subscription.php
Disallow: /forum/threadrate.php
Disallow: /forum/faq.php
Disallow: /forum/cron.php
Disallow: /forum/usercp.php
Disallow: /forum/profile.php
Disallow: /forum/login.php
Disallow: /forum/member.php
Disallow: /forum/sitemap
Disallow: /forum/archive
Disallow: /forum/ajax.php
Disallow: /forum/arcade.php
Disallow: /forum/attachment.php
Disallow: /forum/joinrequests.php
Disallow: /forum/memberlist.php
Disallow: /forum/global.php
Disallow: /forum/usernote.php
Disallow: /forum/reputation.php
Disallow: /forum/includes
Disallow: /forum/install
Disallow: /forum/customavatars
Disallow: /forum/customgroupicons
Disallow: /forum/customprofilepics
Disallow: /forum/attachments
Disallow: /forum/memberlist

Sitemap: http://www.*********.com/forum/dbseositemap.php
Sitemap: http://www.*********.com/sitemap.xml.gz

 

[Fillip H.]

That is most likely due to the fact that previously, Google would index vB's "no permissions" pages as valid pages.

You do not want pages that guests cannot see indexed in Google. I can tell you from experience that nothing is more infuriating than clicking a result link and not actually seeing the information you searched for. I'm sure you'll agree with me on that one

For that reason, DBSEO will send 403 No Permissions errors to search engines for pages that guests cannot access. That way, those pages are not indexed in the search engine. This means your valid pages (i.e. pages guests can access) will receive higher search rankings, as users who click those links will not instantly hit the Back button - they will have found the information they are looking for. Higher quality content = more time spent on the page = higher search rankings.

The error message is simply Google letting you know that all those old pages are now suddenly (correctly) returning No Permissions.


In short: This is perfectly normal, and is not a cause for concern at all

 

[Fillip H.]

As this ticket has received no further replies, I'll close it. If you have any further questions or issues, please feel free to start a new support ticket. Thanks!