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Hi all

Our domian authority has increased from 39 to 42 last week. We have been improving our metadata and removing bad backlinks recently.

Is there any other reason or updates last week that would have resulted in this increase?

Thanks
Gavin

Hi David

Thanks for your response. We have now identified the times the crawls are run and are still receiving the 904 server response even though we aren't getting any Pingdom alerts during that period and my IT team report no server issues either. The 904 errors are a bit of a mystery in the Moz reports unfortunately.

Thanks
Gavin

Thanks all for the responses.
I receive my email from SEO.Moz on Sat but the first crawl was on a Thu.

Does anyone know how long the crawl takes?

Cheers
Gavin

Hi All

Is there a way to discover when SEO.Moz runs its crawl?

I have two sites on our dashboard and both our returning Crawl Error 904 error for the last 2 reports.

I am struggling to discover why the 904 crawl errors are happening and my IT department is asking for a time that the crawl is being run. Any way of finding out?

Thanks
Gavin

Thanks for the advice Pixel by Pixel. Sounds good to me!

We have been generating decent online press coverage with links to our site thanks to our PR agency and I have been asked to link to the online coverage from our website in a 'press coverage' section.

My question is would google consider links from our site to the online press coverage as reciprocal links?

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Gavin

Thanks Paddy

I guess my next question is; does a pay wall stop google from crawling a site? Does anyone know?

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Gavin

Hi bjs2010

If it was just the 904 error alone I wouldn't be too interested. However it came at the same time as a rankings drop. This also was the second week in a row that I had received the Crawl error 904.

Would be good to know if others got the crawl error notification though? Is there any way to know when SEO.Moz do their crawl as it could be when our server is running some back ups.

Thanks
Gavin

Hi all

Our PR agency has obtained a few inbound links from the UK's Times website. This is a great website with a very high DA, however they have a pay wall.

My question is does the paywall counteract the efficacy of the links into our site?

It would be good to know because if they aren't having the desired effect on rankings then I'll ask our PR agency to focus their efforts on other national newsapers.

Thanks
Gavin

If only! We host the website internally and the IT dept who look after the server say there are no issues with the server or network configuration.

The 904 error is on both our sites which are both located on the same server.

The best solution would be to outsource the hosting.

Cheers
Gavin