Google Search Console “Blocked due to denied access (403)” errors

  • Resolved aga2442

    (@aga2442)


    6 months, 1 week ago

    Hello,

    I have been using your plugin on my website for a long time.

    As I mentioned in the title, I have been getting error warnings about your plugin on the “Blocked due to denial of access (403)” page in the google search console area for a long time.

    There are currently more than 200 warnings in the area I mentioned. There are already more than 200 videos on my website.

    I think this problem may be related to the robots.txt field.

    but I still want to ask you.

    is there any way to prevent these errors?

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  • Plugin Contributor wpvideogallery

    (@wpvideogallery)

    The URLs in your screenshot “/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=aiovg_update_views_count” do not belong to the video page and they are loaded when the plugin tries to update the views count.

    So, you can safely ignore the errors – as “/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=aiovg_update_views_count” is not a location that you will want the Google bot to visit.

    I will recommend updating your robots.txt file so that “/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=aiovg_update_views_count” access to bots is disallowed.

    Disallow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=aiovg_update_views_count*

    Also, this doesn’t affect the standard video pages from indexing in your Google search results. Please let me know if you have any problem with this.

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