How to have MOZ site crawl pre-launch
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Hi,
Our new website is about to launch.
We would love to have moz.com SITE CRAWL our site before launch.
For issues like "missing meta description" and everything else that moz.com checks.
We would love to do it before we launch.
The new site is currently on a different domain than our live site.
example.com <-- this is our live site.
new-site.com <-- this is our "staging" server with the new site.
We have a long running campaign for example.com
Do we need to create a new campain for new-site.com ? Or is there some other simpler way?
When we launch we will switch the site from new-site.com to example.com .. example.com will be the address for the new site..
Any ideas or suggestions? best practices?
edit Forgot to say thank you for your help and input
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Thank you!
Yes, we did create a campaign and it worked out fine.
Ofcourse the crawler complains about our site having meta noindex... But it found other issues as well! including a nasty redirect chain and a bunch of broken links!
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Hi Ibbe,
Thanks for reaching out! Jo from the Moz support team here.
Each campaign tracks the url entered when it's created. So in order to track a new site you would indeed need to create a new campaign. You can do that here https://analytics.moz.com/campaigns/new
Also it's worth noting that your staging site would need to be publicly available for our crawler to reach and crawl it.
I hope this helps, please do let me know if you would like more clarification or have any other queries.
You're welcome to reach out to help@moz.com if you get stuck :]
Jo
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