Crawl slow again

[MarkWill]

Once again the weekly crawl on my site is very slow. I have around 441 pages in the crawl and this has been running for over 12 hours. This last happened two weeks ago (ran for over 48 hours). Last week's crawl was much quicker (not sure exactly how long but guessing an hour or so).

Is this a known issue and is there anything that can be done to unblock it? Weekends are the best time for me to assess and respond to changes I have made to my site so having this (small) crawl take most of the weekend is really quite problematic.

Thanks.

Mark

[KeriMorgret]

Your best bet right now is to contact the SEOmoz help desk with an email to help@seomoz.org. They may (not sure) be able to have your crawl start on a different day of the week so it's ready for you by the weekend, and should be able to answer all of your crawl-related questions in general.

[MarkWill]

Thank you for the response. I do not have a robots.txt file. I'm not following how the Google crawl rate effects this (but would love to learn why). I thought that is only used to define how often Google itself crawls my site and has nothing directly to do with SEOMoz. Also, it is not how often the SEOMoz crawl takes (it starts on time each Saturday) but, rather, how long it takes to complete. For two of the last three weeks it has taken almost 48 hours from start to finish.

Thanks again.

Mark

[irvingw]

Have you tried changing the crawl rate in Google Webmaster Tools? Also make sure your robots.txt isn't specifying a crawl rate delay