XF 2.0 Xenforo 2: Google SEO Access Denied Errors

[420]

Been getting thousands of these "Access Denied" errors from Google Webmaster Tools, claiming...

Googlebot couldn't crawl your URL because your server either requires authentication to access the page, or it is blocking Googlebot from accessing your site

Here is one of thousands of urls, they all have the same data at the end, "mark-read?date="
https://www.xyz.com/community/forums/-/mark-read?date=1519269993

The actual pages on our website exist and say...

Mark forums read
Are you sure you want to mark all forums read?

Any idea why this is and how we can resolve the errors?

Thank you.

 

[M@rc]

because your server either requires authentication to access the page

If you copy/paste this link as a guest, you'll be directed to a sign up / login page :

https://xenforo.com/community/forums/-/mark-read?date=1541225923

If you use it while logged in, you'll see the contents from your post So this is normal.

 

[420]

If you copy/paste this link as a guest, you'll be directed to a sign up / login page :

https://xenforo.com/community/forums/-/mark-read?date=1541225923

If you use it while logged in, you'll see the contents from your post So this is normal.

Is there a way to stop this from happening, so we don't have to sift through pages of access denied reports every day?

Is there a reason Xenforo displays them to be spidered and reported, but not seen by the public unless logged in?

I'm trying to understand the logic behind it, if it's not something we can control.

Thank you.

 

[Mike]

Out of the box, XenForo never displays that link to non-registered members. All uses check that the visitor is a registered member first.

I could only guess that there's some customization somewhere that isn't respecting this.