: They get removed from the index. There is no official documentation from Google on this, but you can find plenty of cases where websites have been returning 403 by mistake and got deindexed.

@Welton855

They get removed from the index. There is no official documentation from Google on this, but you can find plenty of cases where websites have been returning 403 by mistake and got deindexed.

Example case : wordpress.org/support/topic/403-crawl-error-on-google-all-pages-have-been-removed-from-google-index

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