Why is Moz Crawling More Pages Than My Site Actually Has?

[drewstorys]

Hi

I have a site that only has 5k pages but Moz has crawled 50K pages on the site when I initiated the site crawl. I don't exactly know why Moz is reporting me back so many pages but I was wondering why this is and if any of you out in the Moz community know anything about this.

Thanks

[tawnycase]

Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here.

It's tough to say without being able to look at your Campaign directly, but I can give you a hint! If you go to All Crawled Pages and download the CSV, Column B is the Referrer URL, the page our crawler was on when it found the link to the page in Column A. You should be able to trace our steps backward to find where all these links are coming from on your site.

I hope that helps! If you're still needing some help, please write in to us at help@moz.com with all the details of your issue, and we'll do our very best to sort things out for ya.

Cheers!