Title: Google Denied Access
Last modified: September 13, 2016

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# Google Denied Access

 *  [EA Media](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonstout/)
 * (@jonstout)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-denied-access/)
 * Hi there,
 * I just spent some time de-bugging an issue we’re having with Google Crawls being
   denied access (403) on many pages on our site. Our host checked the logs and 
   found that some common Google IPs were blocked in our htaccess file via iThemes.
   Any guidance on this issue? They all seemed to be in this range: 66.249.64.0 
   to 66.249.95.255 using “Require not ip”

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 *  [Gerroald](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gerroald/)
 * (@gerroald)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-denied-access/#post-8187315)
 * Hi,
 * You’ll want to check your Security Logs to see why they’re getting locked out.
   Likely due to hitting too many 404s. If that’s the case your best option is to
   get them fixed. I’d suggest disabling the 404 Detection feature until you’re 
   able to get this done.
 * You will need to remove these IPs from your Banned Users field.
 * Thanks,
 * Gerroald
 *  [wp_mattoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattoo64/)
 * (@mattoo64)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-denied-access/#post-8225832)
 * Hi Gerroald,
 * I’m experiencing the same problem (ie: Googlebots being blacklisted because of
   too many 404).
 * What do you mean by “get them fixed” ?
    Which would be a good way to fix this?
 * thanks a lot for your help,
 * Matt

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