How do I reduce crawled pages?

[etlsnhy]

I am trying to change my subscription level within Moz, but it say's that I am over my allowed number of crawled pages. Each site appears to be using 50,000 pages, but as they are only tiny sites with a maximum of a few hundred pages I have no idea why. Any idea how I can reduce this number?

[eli.myers]

Hey there!

Thanks for reaching out to us!

At the Standard and Medium Subscription Levels, there is no ability to change the number of pages crawled. They are set at 20k pages or 50k pages respectively by default.

It's not a count of how many pages of your site we are actually crawling, rather it's the maximum amount of pages we could crawl per Campaign.

If you archive your Campaigns, that will bring the number down from 50k to 0 pages crawled, and then once you reach the required limit you can switch to our Standard plan.

Let me know if you have any other questions and I'll be more than happy to help!

Have a great day!

Eli

[etlsnhy]

So in order to downgrade from Medium to Standard I first have to archive all the campaigns, is that correct? What happens then when I reactivate them once we've downgraded, will they automatically be reassigned to 20k limits?

[eli.myers]

You would need to archive as many Campaigns as you have on your account in order to reach the limits of the Standard plan (100,000 pages crawled). Meaning, you would only be able to have 2 Active Campaigns on your Medium Plan before you can downgrade (Assuming all the other Subscription limits are met e.g. no Keyword Lists).

Once you reactivate them I believe that each Camoaign will automatically reassign to 20k limits.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

Eli

[davebuts]

Hi Simon,

If your sites are only a few hundred pages and Moz is crawling 50k pages, you definitely have some crawl issues on your sites.

Reducing the number of pages Moz can crawl won't fix these problems - you should have a good SEO take a look at your site to find out why so many pages can be crawled and find out if they really need to be crawled (they probably don't).

You can then take the appropriate steps to improve how search engines (and crawling tools) crawl your site by blocking access to these pages.

There's really no need to change your Moz subscription level for this problem.

Cheers,

David