seo moz crawl diagnosis

[Ideas-Money-Art]

Hi seomozzers,

We are creating a brand new website for a client and I would like to run an seo moz crawl to fix what has been done wrong. So my question is it ok to run an SEO moz crawl with a dev URL? Are final URLs and dev URLs will give me the same results or not?

Basically, Should I wait for getting the final URL or is it ok to run a crawl under a dev URL such as www.dev2.example.com or http://183.2564.2864?

Thank you

[AlanMosley]

you can run it on the dev, that would be ok. cant see why not, errors to do with domain may be askew but thats all.

[Ideas-Money-Art]

Even under this format: http://183.2564.2864?

[kenneth_martin]

Hey,

You could use a dev subdomain (e.g. dev.example.com) to get a crawl but we cannot crawl a specific IP address. You will alos want to make sure that our user-agent rogerbot has permission to crawl your dev site.

Hope that helps!

Kenny

[Ideas-Money-Art]

Hi Kenny,

So I have made the Bot crawl this form of url  http://183.2564.2864 and detected multiple errors. So are you saying that I shouldn't rely on what the crawlers has detected? should I then assign the dev team to provide me an actual dev url before sending them any recommendations to fix errors already detected by the bot?

Thanks