In June of 2017, Moz launched our entirely rebuilt Site Crawl[1], helping you dive deep into crawl issues and technical SEO problems, fix those issues in your Moz Pro Campaigns (tracked websites), and monitor weekly for new issues. Many times, though, you need quick insights outside of a Campaign context, whether you're analyzing a prospect site before a sales call or trying to assess the competition.
For years, Moz had a lab tool called Crawl Test. The bad news is that Crawl Test never made it to prime-time and suffered from some neglect. The good news is that I'm happy to announce the full launch (as of August 2018) of On-Demand Crawl, an entirely new crawl tool built on the engine that powers Site Crawl, but with a UI designed around quick insights for prospecting and competitive analysis.
While you don’t need a Campaign to run a crawl, you do need to be logged into your Moz Pro subscription. If you don’t have a subscription, you can sign-up for a free trial[2] and give it a whirl.
How can you put On-Demand Crawl to work? Let's walk through a short example together.
All you need is a domain
Getting started is easy. From the "Moz Pro" menu, find "On-Demand Crawl" under "Research Tools":
Just enter a root domain or subdomain in the box at the top and click the blue button to kick off a crawl. While I don't want to pick on anyone, I've decided to use a real site. Our recent analysis of the August 1st Google update[3] identified some sites that were hit hard, and I've picked one (lilluna.com) from that list.
Please note that Moz is not affiliated with Lil' Luna in