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We just updated our sites WP YoastSEO plugin one day prior to the Moz weekly crawl. Not sure if our change interrupted our weekly Moz crawl or if it was an issue with Moz. The Moz weekly crawl, weekly email notifications were not received and all Moz campaign reports were not updated. I would like to run a crawl immediately. How can I do so before waiting for the next MOZ crawl?

Duly noted Thomas and completely agree. Thanks for your feedback!

Thank you Thomas and Moosa for your feedback. After getting a little more background, these are sites the client once had in existence and have them pointing to the main site but retain their domain throughout – so they are actually aliases.

I am now thinking they set up the DNS for the aliases to mask and pointed to the main site and have unintentionally created duplicate content and multiple backlinks.

In my opinion, it would be best to remove the masking in the DNS and have the client implement a 301 for each of the alias domains to the main site. Is there a better way of correcting this issue vs a poor way?

I have a client that has 4 individual domains with duplicate content mirroring certain sections of the main site as well as the home page. I understand the duplicate content issues but have a different question that I would like advice on. I am seeing 3 of these domains back linking to the main domain causing over 5 million backlinks. Is this bad and can it hurt rankings? One domain has 3,215,658 backlinks and another has 1,553,947 backlinks.

I have experienced this in the past with a different client, where sister companies back linked using the exact same anchor text caused over 5 million back links. This client experienced a drop of their top 2 keywords where they dropped from # 1 & 2 positions in Google SERPs to the 82nd position.

Appreciate feedback

Thank you Thomas and Moosa for your feedback. After getting a little more background, these are sites the client once had in existence and have them pointing to the main site but retain their domain throughout – so they are actually aliases.

I am now thinking they set up the DNS for the aliases to mask and pointed to the main site and have unintentionally created duplicate content and multiple backlinks.

In my opinion, it would be best to remove the masking in the DNS and have the client implement a 301 for each of the alias domains to the main site. Is there a better way of correcting this issue vs a poor way?