Title: Googlebot 401
Last modified: July 6, 2023

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# Googlebot 401

 *  Resolved [dimal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dimalifragis/)
 * (@dimalifragis)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-401/)
 * Hi,
 * Why some 401 and is this something to worry about?
 * [https://drive.google.com/file/d/15wJU8gK6FO8zJs7FT0LuZPntyGpbzo7e/view?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/file/d/15wJU8gK6FO8zJs7FT0LuZPntyGpbzo7e/view?usp=sharing)
 * Thank you !

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 *  Plugin Author [Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paultgoodchild/)
 * (@paultgoodchild)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-401/#post-16877422)
 * These are AJAX requests, so I suspect that the Google Bot is triggering AJAX 
   requests that it’s not permitted to. Could be that the AJAX nonce is expired.
 * These are not 401 errors for normal site crawling.
 *  Thread Starter [dimal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dimalifragis/)
 * (@dimalifragis)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-401/#post-16879424)
 * [@paultgoodchild](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paultgoodchild/) So this
   is an issue for me or not?
 * Most ajax are ok but some give a 401, not only from google but also from Bing
   and other bots. And i’m not seen that in other sites not using The Shield.

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 * Last reply from: [dimal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dimalifragis/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-401/#post-16879424)
 * Status: resolved