Crawl test tool from SEOmoz - which URLs does it actually crawl?

[Elke.GetApp]

I am using for the first time the crawl test tool from SEOmoz and I do not really understand which URLs the tool is going to crawl.

First, it says "enter any subdomain" --> why can´t I do the crawl for the root domain?

Second it says "we'll crawl up to 3,000 linked-to pages" --> does that mean that the tool crawls all internal links that it can find on the given domain?

Thanks for your help!

[AlanMosley]

When you become a pro meneber you can set up compaigns, then you can set up by root domain and crawl all sub domains.

the free version will crawl only one sudomain, such as

www.example.com

example.com

news.example.com

[Elke.GetApp]

Alan, thank you for the answer. I am a Pro Member (trial version). But the only crawl diagnostics that I can find inside my campaign is a short Crawl Diagnostics summary which doesn´t include all the information that the crawl test tool gave me... I have just set up a campaign for the root domain, let´s see if the crawl diagnostics give me more information for that one.

[ShaMenz]

Hi Elke,

An initial Pro campaign will take up to 7 days to complete and will crawl up to a maximum 10,000 URLs for the root domain or sub domain that you choose to set it up for.

The Crawl Test tool is intended to provide a "quick start " option, which will report against the same diagnostic information, but for a limited number of URLs (3,000 & max of 2 domains per day). This allows you to get started on tidying up site issues while waiting for the full crawl to complete.

Since the Crawl Test tool allows you to run the quick crawl for any subdomain, it can also be useful for taking a look at the health of established sites you may be quoting on etc.

Hope that helps,

Sha