Moz crawls

[neooptic]

Hi all! I'm running two separate campaign crawls at the moment that I'm having a few issues with. The first is http://www.muchbetteradventures.com/.

I'm tracking this at root to try an pick any problems with a previous version of the site, which is on the v1.muchbetteradventures subdomain. However, I'm only seeing 100 or so pages as being crawled in Moz, compared to thousands in Google. There's no access blocked alerts in Moz either.

The second is http://www.sothebys.com/. I started this crawl at root a few days ago and no pages at all have been processed. Very odd!

Any advice would be much appreciated.

[neooptic]

Thanks Reuben! Just getting my head around Screaming Frog! Can it be used to flag up duplicate content issues like Moz?

[Abe_Schmidt]

Hello and great question! If you are ever missing pages from your crawl, you can always email help@moz.com with the name of the campaign and a couple examples of missing pages. We can usually diagnose this issue pretty quickly. In a lot of cases, this could be due to the way some domains are forwarded or redirected. I encourage you to email us the issue with a few examples so that the Help Team, including myself, can dig in and figure out whats going on. Sorry for the delay, I hope we can help get to the bottom of your crawl issues.

[Rocket.Fuel]

1. Google's index may or may not be reflective of the pages you actually have on your site—likely the latter, hence the difference between the pages on your site and the pages in Google's index. Right now, the v1 subdomain times out, so no crawlers will be able to do anything with it. The www domain only has about 250 or so URLs.

2. Sotheby's website blocks all but a few crawlers, which is why Moz would not crawl any pages. http://www.sothebys.com/robots.txt

I would suggest using your own crawling software to untangle these issues. If you aren't familiar with Screaming Frog, you should check it out.