Have a client that migrated their site; went live with noindex/nofollow and for last two SEOMoz crawls only getting one page crawled. In contrast, G.A. is crawling all pages. Just wait?
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Client site is 15 + pages. New site had noindex/nofollow removed prior to last two crawls.
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Okay I just did a test crawl with 'Screaming Frog' SEO spider - no issues
Robots.txt - not blocking it.
Headers - not blocking them.
Therefore definitely look at Keri's post as it's something SEOmoz's end, so check out that thread for some possible answers
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Sure. The site is bayareadrainage.com . Thanks in advance.
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If GA means Google Analytics, Google Analytics doesn't crawl pages -- it reports visits to pages that have the GA code on them. You can have the content behind a password and blocked in robots.txt and if GA code is there, it would still track people.
https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-why-isn-t-my-site-being-crawled-you-re-not-crawling-all-my-pages lists some common reasons why only one page is crawled. If you still have problems with crawling, send a note to help@seomoz.org and we'll help you figure things out.
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Are you able to post the URL? That way I, or another Mozzer could check the crawlability and just check you're not accidentally blocking robots another way?
I would also check your robots.txt to make sure you're not Disallowing all your site.
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