Order of urls in SEOMoz crawl report
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Is there any rhyme or reason to the order of urls in the SEOMoz crawl report, or are the urls just listed in random order?
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Thanks Matt! Glad to know someone else had this question. It's been a head scratcher for me for a while.
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Hi Lynn,
I once spoke to an SEOmoz staff member about this, and they told me that there is no logic to the way Roger crawls a website - it's completely random. I have looked through my last 10 or so CSVs and each time I have a different order. The first few links of my latest report are from the second level of architecture, so I would concur that it is at least randomly reported, if not randomly collected.
Matt
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