429 Errors?
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I have over 500,000 429 errors in webmaster tools. Do I need to be concerned about these errors?
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I am getting the same 429 errors also? The only changes I have made are that I switched my account on Godaddy from a deluxe hostimg to a managed WordPress hosting account?
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I highly doubt this error would have anything to do with that. I would also recommending cross checking those rankings with another party tool like Authority Labs - or you can look for your average position in Google Webmaster Tools. Moz runs rankings once a week, and sometimes it might happen to pick up on a temporary fluctuation. So I'd confirm the ranking drop before deciding what to do next
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I have the same question. Also, these are the only errors on my site. MOZ shows that the main keyword for the site just dropped from ranked #1 to ranked #21 on Google. Does this error have anything to do with it?
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Sounds like probably the same issue wcbuckner describes - if it's problem in any way I would contact GoDaddy about it and see what they have to say.
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This error is shown only in Moz Analytics. It's oky everywhere except here.
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I just got a lot of these on my Moz report and I also host with Godaddy. My issue is how do we know if it does or doesn't happen when Google crawls our site? I am trying to get a page rank and I hope this is not stopping my site from getting ranked.
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What exactly is happening, the same 429 errors? Does wcbuckner's response explain it for you?
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Facing same problem with Godaddy. But can anybody say how to resolve this problem please?
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Having the same issue and just spoke with Godaddy who said it's not a concern and that what's happening is Moz's software is pinging the client's server too many times within a given time period, so Godaddy's system is temporarily blocking Moz's IP, which causes the error. The do not ever, according to this rep, block Google's services that hit the server.
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Interesting. I too had not come across a 429 error either.
I crawled your site once with Screaming Frog at normal speed and got some 429 errors. Those pages are indexed and cached - so there does not seem to be a dire emergency.
I did a second crawl, slower, with Screaming Frog - and still got a few 429 errors but not nearly as many. Thing is though, even though pages are getting indexed and cached, some pages will throw the 429 error on some crawls, and then maybe not the next crawl. So it's enough to get through, but would be better to not have them.
From what I can tell, it seems this code is set at the server level - so perhaps you should contact your host to inquire about it. Are you on a normal hosting setup or are you going through something like WP Engine? The number of requests allowed needs to be increased. Or as Mike said, this could be an included API call that's causing it.
Hope that helps!
-Dan
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I found this from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF):
"429 Too Many Requests
The 429 status code indicates that the user has sent too many requests in a given amount of time ("rate limiting").
The response representations SHOULD include details explaining the condition, and MAY include a Retry-After header indicating how long to wait before making a new request.
For example:
HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests
Content-Type: text/html
Retry-After: 3600<title>Too Many Requests</title>
Too Many Requests
I only allow 50 requests per hour to this Web site per logged in user. Try again soon.
Note that this specification does not define how the origin server identifies the user, nor how it counts requests. For example, an origin server that is limiting request rates can do so based upon counts of requests on a per-resource basis, across the entire server, or even among a set of servers. Likewise, it might identify the user by its authentication credentials, or a stateful cookie.
Responses with the 429 status code MUST NOT be stored by a cache."
From doing a quick read, it looks like this error would be thrown when API request are called too quickly... so... yeah?
Sorry I can't be any more helpful.
Mike
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Here is a screenshot of webmaster errors: http://prntscr.com/zc5p2.
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Hmmm...
I have never hear of a 429 error. And that error isn't listed by Google Webmaster Tools or W3.org either.
If you mean a 409 error, that means Conflict, "The server encountered a conflict fulfilling the request. The server must include information about the conflict in the response. The server might return this code in response to a PUT request that conflicts with an earlier request, along with a list of differences between the requests."
If you do mean 429, can you provide a screenshot of it?
Thanks,
Mike
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