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2 weeks ago, Google started being unable access my website anymore. In Webmaster Tools I can't fetch any pages, always getting error 403, and the website has been completely dropped from Google search results.

I can't figure why it suddenly can't see it anymore. I've checked .htaccess and there is nothing that blocks Google crawlers, and robots.txt is fine too.

The site is accessible normally for users.
Has anyone had this problem?

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I had same problem ,if your site is at 40-50% don't worry to much ,try to do again it should let you do again if it doesn't then there is problem with your DNS make sure your google robot txt in your site allows google to follow index

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I would speak to your hosting provider, it sounds like maybe something they did on a server or network level.

If they aren't helpful with it you could maybe speak to others with the same host to see if they had similar problems around the same time.

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