My website began to loose its rankings and started to think about some mistakes that I possibly could do. From my point, I haven't done anything wrong. However, I recently took a look at my .htaccess file and got some suspicious sign: <Files 403.shtml> order allow,deny allow from all </Files> deny from 82.208.27.61 What that could mean? Can anyone help me?
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_access.html I think with this code you blocked 82.208.27.61. But I'm no .htaccess expert.
it means you have blocked the user(s) from that ip from accessing the directory of whatever folder that .htaccess is in (or entire site if its in your root [public_html] folder)