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    <p>after several months having the site disappear from search results in every major search engine, I finally found out a possible reason.</p> <p>I used WebBug to investigate server header. See the difference if the request is HEAD or GET.</p> <p><strong>HEAD Sent data:</strong></p> <pre><code>HEAD / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.attu.it Connection: close Accept: */* User-Agent: WebBug/5.0 </code></pre> <p><strong>HEAD Received data:</strong></p> <pre><code>HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:01:00 GMT Server: Apache/2.2 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 </code></pre> <p><strong>GET Sent data:</strong></p> <pre><code>GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.attu.it Connection: close Accept: */* User-Agent: WebBug/5.0 </code></pre> <p><strong>GET Received data:</strong></p> <pre><code>HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:06:15 GMT Server: Apache/2.2 Last-Modified: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:58:01 GMT ETag: "671f91b-2d2-47ca362815840" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 722 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html // HTML code here </code></pre> <p>Now, browsers by default send a GET request (at least this is what firebug says). Is it possible that crawlers send a HEAD request instead? If so, why only this server responds with a 403, while other servers from other sites I'm mantaining do not?</p> <p>In case it's important, the only line present in .htaccess is (unless my client changed it, as they don't want to give me access to their server)</p> <pre><code>AddType text/x-component .htc </code></pre> <p><strong>UPDATE</strong><br> Thanks @Ryk. FireBug and Fiddler both send GET requests, which get 200 (or 300) responses. As expected. So I guess it's either a server bad setting (even though it's strange as the hosting is from a major company with millions of clients) or something they put in the .htaccess. They will have to let me look into their account.</p> <p>The second part of my question was if that could be the cause of the website not appearing in any search engine (<em>site:www.attu.it</em> gives no results). Any thought?</p> <p><strong>UPDATE 2</strong><br> After some fiddling around, it turns out there was the phpMyAdmin robots-blocking .htaccess in the root directory, that caused any request from robots to be sent back with a 403 Forbidden</p>
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    1. COIt's a bug with the server, the client want it fixed, they should give you at least some access. At the very least, ask them if they could see a copy of the current .htaccess.
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