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I recently moved to a new host that blocks crawling to my uploads folders but (hopefully) allows the files in the folder to be crawled.

I now show many 403 errors for each folder in the uploads folder in my Webmaster Tools. For example, www.rewardcharts4kids.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ shows a 403 error.

For example, I can access this file: www.rewardcharts4kids.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/lunch-box-notes.jpg but I cannot access the folder it is in.

My rankings went down after I moved to this host and I am wondering if:

this could be the reason.
is this how files/folders are supposed to be set up?

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Your website deliberately does not want anybody to browse directories - you have to navigate from one specific webpage to another using the hyperlinks in those webpages.
This is true for most websites on the Internet - their web server has Allow directory browsing set OFF.

In nutshell, You don't have permission to access /wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ on this server.

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