: GSC 403 Error - Why have some Web pages dropped out of Google serps whilst others have'nt? I have a site that has been on 1st page of Google for years but suddenly it has dropped right

Posted in: #403Forbidden #Error #Googlebot #GoogleIndex #GoogleSearchConsole

I have a site that has been on 1st page of Google for years but suddenly it has dropped right out of search results.

I Checked Google Search Console and sows 39 "Access Denied (out of total 50 pages/posts) - Crawl error showing 403 errors for home page & most of pages/posts - but not all.

Doing a "Fetch" (for home page) just throws up "! Error" - which I presume means Googlebot can't crawl it.

Doing a Server Header check at tools.seobook.com/server-header-checker/ shows:

Requesting www.cheapremovalsburnley.co.uk SERVER RESPONSE:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 09:45:35 GMT
Server: Apache
Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0
Pragma: no-cache
Link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/", ; rel=shortlink
Set-Cookie: wfvt_2095637327=5aa3a9408dbd8; expires=Sat, 10-Mar-2018 10:15:36 GMT; Max-Age=1800; path=/; httponly
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

Which I think looks ok??

I have tried de-activating all plugins, then do another "Fetch" in GSC but still the same "Error"

I can not see any difference between pages that are being crawled and those that are denied.