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Google Ad Bots

How to resolve issues related to Google Ad Bots

Google Ads getting disapproved 403 Error

Error: Unable to crawl your landing page on iOS devices. HTTP error 403

Step 1: Go to robots.txt and add the followng to the top of the txt

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Disallow:

*leave the Disallow: section blank"

Keep checking your logs for 403 errors. 

Although robots.txt is the first line of fixing bot related errors, the error could also be from rules set in the Web Application Firewall or  the .htaccess file

Step 2: Allowing Google IP's