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Roberto15
December 1, 2021
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SEMRUSH crawl returns 403 errors on Zendesk links

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  • December 1, 2021
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We use SEMRUSH to crawl and audit our website, but it looks like for some reason the crawl fails on link that point to Zendesk. Links such as https://help.tokyotreat.com/hc/en-us which work fine when opened on a browser, fail on SEMRUSH crawls.

Is there any fix for this?

Thanks.

    22 replies

    Eric27
    December 3, 2021

    Hey @roberto15, this is actually related to a bug that we're tracking. Do you mind if I move this into a ticket?

    December 4, 2021

    Same problem here. How do we fix it?

    Roberto15
    Roberto15Author
    December 6, 2021

    Hello @eric27! Of course, please go ahead and if possible let me know when there is a fix available. We currently have a ton of errors just for that.

    Thanks!

    January 4, 2022

    @eric27 - Hi there. Has there been any progress on this? I believe we are experiencing the same issue. 

    Wesley22
    March 8, 2022

    Hi,

     

    Did you get a fix for this?

     

    Thanks

    Wes

    April 18, 2022

    We have the exact issue.

    Our Zendesk HC page also gets 403 error in semrush. But page loads fine when accessed.

    Please let us know if there is a fix .

     

    We got following info from Semrush too.

     

    Thank you for contacting Semrush! 

    We apologize for the delay as we have been experiencing high request volumes. 

    We are getting a 403 status error based on their domain blocking our bots at this time. If our bots are blocked it will cause them to time out. This does not directly mean there is an error with the page, thusly why you may be seeing a 200 code on your end. 

    Additionally information on whitelisting can be found within our Site Audit section of our knowledge base: 
    https://www.semrush.com/kb/681-site-audit-troubleshooting. To recap how the domain reads or blocks our bot is why we specifically are retaining a 403 status code at this time. 

    Please let us know if you have any additional questions or requests! 

    May 2, 2022

    Hello, we are having this exact same issue too. Can I get this created into a ticket as well?

    Vincent32
    May 13, 2022

    Confirming this issue as well. This is not specific to semrush however, our google search console report also reports this which leads to impact on SEO. 

    Kurt20
    May 20, 2022

    We're getting the same error. Any progress on a fix? I see at least from this thread that it was first reported on December 1, 2021 and today is May 20, 2022. 

    Yujian
    June 28, 2022

    Same issue here, any updates on the fix?

    Thanks