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Sitemap 403 for AHREFS and Search Console

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The community members have noticed that their sitemap is throwing a 403 error for AHREFS and Google Search Console is reporting a temporary processing error. They have checked Cloudflare and don't see any issues there, so they suspect the issue may be related to their webstudio. One community member suggests that Ahrefs recently changed their IPs, so Cloudflare may need to update their list of approved bots. Another community member ran the sitemap through a testing tool and found it to be valid XML, and they recommend resubmitting the sitemap to ensure it's being read properly. The community members plan to contact Cloudflare regarding the AHREFS issue and continue monitoring the Google Search Console.

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We have been noticing recently our sitemap is throwing a 403 error for AHREFS and google search console is saying our sitemap has a temproary processing error
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We have checked cloudfalre and there is nothing in there that would be casuing this issue, so we are wondering if there is something from webstudio that is casuing the issue
Ahrefs recently changed their IPs so we think Cloudflare needs to update their list of approved bots
Could this be the same reason Google Search console is throwing an error?
Hm no that's unrelated. What's your sitemaps tab look like?
I haven't seen that error before but I would proceed as thinking it was indeed temprorary but keeping an eye on it. You can resubmit the sitemap to make sure it's getting read properly but the screenshot of the sitemap page makes me think its fine. I also ran the sitemap through a testing tool and its valid xml πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ
Okay thank you @John Siciliano I will try to contact cloudflare regarding the AHREFS issue and keep an eye on the search console
thank you for your help!
Sounds good report back if you hear anything πŸ™
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