Can we add sites to the crawl queue for OSE?
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Is it possible to request that Open Site Explorer crawls a new URL on its next run?
This tool is the first place I go to when working on a new site, and when there is "No Data Available" this is a little frustrating.
I fully appreciate that this lack of data is usually a signal that the website is either very new or of low quality, however that if often the reason that I am brought in and would very much like to benchmark and provide initial analysis using this tool.
It would make sense that OSE crawls the sites that Moz members are working on wouldnt it?
Scott.
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Hi Scott,
Derek and Brad are correct in that there's no real way to tell Roger to index a specific page.
Your best bet to get your page index in OSE is to work at building quality backlinks and making sure your site is configured properly so we can reach your pages.
Also remember you can set up your campaign for your site and crawl it that way if you want to evaluate the rest of your page information.
I hope that helps.
Cheers,
Joel. -
You "ask it what it knows" when you type in a URL and hit Search. Think of it like walking up to a really smart person and asking them to list off every book every written that includes the word "rhinoceros." They can only list the books they've read. A person only has so much time for reading, and OSE only has so many resources for crawling the web. It will never get everything.
If OSE doesn't show any backlinks for a URL, it means it didn't see any backlinks in the portion of the web that it crawled. That might mean there are no backlinks at all, or it might mean the backlinks are yet undiscovered (probably because they're in an obscure corner of the web). The best suggestion is to use multiple tools, as Derek says below.
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SeoMoz members have no control over what Mozbot crawls. Your best bet is to use a variety of site explorers to find links. Ex. Majestic, Google Webmaster tools, Link:www.example.com, Bing Link Explorer
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Yes I know what you mean here, but if there is any way to "point" the crawl engine at the site and ask it what it knows?
I hadnt thought about it from that perspective, just asking the question to see what is possible to try and get more data if it can be got?!
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As far as I know, crawling your website wouldn't accomplish anything. OSE would need to crawl the pages that link to your website. And if you knew what those were, you wouldn't need OSE, right?
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