Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
If I do that now using "site:" I get the 403 error page whenever I try to go past the 11th page of results.
I don't have a huge website, just a few hundred pages in total, and I'm not using any kind of automated application. All I'm doing is browsing Google using Firefox.
I saw in previous posts that this had occured with other operators, but I think this is the first time it's happened with "site:".
Is anyone else experiencing this? Can I do anything about it? Is this a bug or is Google trying to deliberately stop people seeing their own sites in the index?
It isn't the particular "command" it is the repeated queries from your IP address that has fallen into a pattern that looks like ....
That's what the error message claims, but I don't see any pattern except using "site:".
Even that doesn't make any sense though as many other domains work fine when I go through their pages in the index.
The only thing I can come up with is that it doesn't like me excluding forum threads from the results, but why that should make it think I'm automated is beyond me.
All of these automated systems present multiple requests that follow the following pattern query next, next, next, next, next, next. Most "people" rarely go beyond page 3 .
That is the pattern (of many possible) along with the time between presses and possibly prior history from that IP.
I've had it just going through the serps because none of the entries returned looked like they were worth visiting.
I can get that error message on the very first search done for the day, if the results page is for one that is several pages into the results (search URL in bookmarks or history).
