Google Search Console 403 Error When Indexing Pages

[bahiano]

Dear InfinityFree Team,

First of all, thank you for providing this free hosting service. I truly appreciate the opportunity to test my website during this early stage. I’ve dedicated many hours to building this project, and despite all the challenges, I’m excited about its potential.

However, I’m currently experiencing a 403 Forbidden error when trying to index my website using Google Search Console. The affected site is: https://babados.wuaze.com/

I understand that free hosting comes with limitations, but I kindly ask if it would be possible to temporarily lift or adjust this restriction for search engine crawlers. Since this site is still in testing, my plan is to upgrade to a premium plan in the future if everything goes well.

If you cannot directly remove the 403 block, could you please provide some guidance or an official solution here on the forum to help users facing the same issue?

Thank you again for your support and for offering this platform to help small projects like mine grow.

Best regards,
weylky

[Greenreader9]

Hello,

While some of the tools in search console are blocked by the security system, and actual crawling done by Google is not blocked. Sometimes it can take awhile before Google actually crawls your website!

[bahiano]

Error submitting sitemap to Google Search Console (“Couldn’t fetch” error)

Hello everyone,
I have a website hosted here on InfinityFree:
https://babados.wuaze.com

I use the Yoast SEO plugin on WordPress, and the sitemap is generated correctly. I can access it in the browser at:

https://babados.wuaze.com/sitemap_index.xml

The sitemap shows the internal sitemaps properly, like:

• /post-sitemap.xml
• /page-sitemap.xml
• /category-sitemap.xml
• /author-sitemap.xml

However, when I try to submit the sitemap to Google Search Console, I get this error:

I have tried:

• Saving the permalink settings again in WordPress
• Disabling and re-enabling the Yoast plugin
• Testing the URL on different devices and browsers

Nothing solved the issue.
After some research, I found that the Googlebot might be blocked by the hosting server. Has anyone else experienced this issue on InfinityFree? Is there any configuration or setting to allow Googlebot access to XML files?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[Admin]

Most automated access to your website with us is blocked due to this security system:

Ensuring only web browsers can access your website

InfinityFree is a website hosting service. That means that the hosting accounts we provided are intended for hosting websites. Websites contain pages that are accessed through web browsers. InfinityFree is not intended to be used for file sharing, API hosting, database hosting or background tasks/tools. To help enforce this, free hosting enforces a security system that makes sure that anyone trying to access your website is using a normal web browser. This is done by checking whether the web br…

However, we have taken precautions to make sure that the Google crawler itself still has access. Checks from Search Console might not be allowed though.

So I think you can just chalk this up as false positive in search console.