Why is my crawl taking so long?
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Hi There,
My crawl for albertcuyp.nl is taking very long, it started on the 10th of april. I don't know whats going on but i think 2 weeks for a crawl is extremely long. Can you help me?
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Thanks for reaching out to us! This is Abe Schmidt from the SEOmoz Help Team. After viewing your campaign, it does look like you were updated today. If you ever experience a strange delay, feel free to message us for a quick private response: help@seomoz.org.
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start another crawl. I've hit a few bugs like this, but when you submit a new one for the same url it works ... can't cancel or restart old ones (maybe something for Moz to work on)
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