Can I crawl a password protected domain with SEOmoz?

[edlondon]

Hi everyone,

Just wondered if anybody has been able to use the SEOmoz site crawler for password protected domains?   On Screaming Frog you are prompted for the username and password when you set the crawler running, however SEOmoz doesn't.  It seems you can only crawl sites that are live and publicly available - can anyone confirm if this is the case?

Cheers,

M

[TommyTan]

Hi,

I don't think it is possible to crawl any password protectec pages.  Password protected pages are usually blocked and bots are unable access those pages.

And yes it is true that only sites that are publicly and live can be crawled.