Title: Plugin blocking Google?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Plugin blocking Google?

 *  Resolved [caseycase](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caseycase/)
 * (@caseycase)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-blocking-google/)
 * Hey guys, first, let me say that I absolutely love and appreciate this plugin.
   I wanted to bring something to your attention and see if maybe I did something
   wrong or if there is an issue with the plugin –
 * Today, we noticed that a site was getting multiple errors coming from Google.
   In checking Webmaster Tools, I found that Google was getting 403 errors on basically
   the entire site.
 * I couldn’t find anything that should be blocking Google, so I tried disabling
   AIOWPS, and sure enough, as soon as I did (and I made no other changes), Google
   was able to fetch the site again.
 * Any thoughts as to why/how this happened? Could I have a setting in there that
   caused this? Thanks in advance!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-security-and-firewall/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-security-and-firewall/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [wpsolutions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpsolutions/)
 * (@wpsolutions)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-blocking-google/#post-6624218)
 * Did you have maintenance mode on?
    Do you have any of the firewall features enabled?
   If so, try testing which one is causing the blocking by disabling one by one 
   and then leave that feature disabled.
 *  Plugin Contributor [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/)
 * (@mbrsolution)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-blocking-google/#post-6624523)
 * [@caseycase](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caseycase/) do you still require
   help with this issue?
 *  Plugin Contributor [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/)
 * (@mbrsolution)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-blocking-google/#post-6624525)
 * I am marking this thread as resolved. No replies in 5 months.
 * Thank you

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 * Last reply from: [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-blocking-google/#post-6624525)
 * Status: resolved