Daily crawl reports, are they wasting my time?
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I am relatively new here, I have 5 campaigns. I get new crawl complete reports almost every day for all of them. Wow great, except when I check the reports nothing has changed. Even if I have gone in and changed things or fixed errors, the same ones are still there and takes 4-7 days for that work to show up. Everytime I get one of these reports I am opening them up going through and not seeing the changes I implemented the previous days before. I'll spend 20-30 minutes going over these and checking details.
So the question is, Are these reports wasting my time? Are they actually new reports or am I just getting spammed repeat notices everyday?
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Hi Randy,
I wouldn't say that the crawl reports are a waste of time, but you probably don't need to be going over them in detail each time unless you've made major changes to the site. I think crawl reports go out once a week by default although you can turn this off by going to Campaign Settings > Email Notifications.
Personally, I turn off notifications for crawl reports and just glance through it on Moz Analytics whenever I feel it's necessary - typically once a month just to make sure everything is looking good.
The crawl report can be really helpful when you first sign up with Moz or build a new site. It will point out a lot of errors that you might have missed. Once you have those errors under control, you can just use it occasionally to make sure things haven't gotten messy again.
Hope this helps!
Tim
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