Moz Crawl Report Increase in Errors?
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Has anyone else noticed a huge increase over the past couple weeks in crawl issues in their dashboards? Without being able to see historical data week over week, I can't tell what's been added. Is this some update with the tool? I'm not seeing any health issues with this feature on the Moz Health page, it just seems strange that I'm seeing this across all our accounts.
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Yes, ViviCa1's suggestion that this is related to the number of pages we've crawled does look to be correct. I took a look at your campaigns and it looks like we've seen some dramatic increases in the number of pages crawled, which means that we've found more issues.
With duplicate content issues in particular, crawling more pages usually sees a dramatic increase.
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I haven't, this only happens to me when there has been an issue with the website at the time it was crawled and that usually resolves itself the following week.
Sometimes it can also be related to the number of pages Moz has crawled. I.e. when it crawls more pages, it also finds more issues.
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