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Why did my crawl only result in 1 page?

Written by Jeff

There are a few reasons:
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​Reason 1: you attempted to crawl a domain without entering : www
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for example, you enter:
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 http://shenandoahconnection.com/


but the links on that page are all pointing to URLs with : HTTP://www.

http://www.shenandoahconnection.com/aboutus.htm
http://www.shenandoahconnection.com/worldnews.htm
http://www.shenandoahconnection.com/testimonials.htm
http://www.shenandoahconnection.com/post-here.htm
http://www.shenandoahconnection.com/shenandoahadvertising.htm
http://www.shenandoahconnection.com/make-payment.htmso


so our crawler is very STRICT in that sense and sees that 2 different domains.
It has a simple rule to ONLY crawl within the domain you set to crawl.
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So those links are skipped!
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​Solution: Crawl with www
​http://www.shenandoahconnection.com/
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Reason 2:
Our crawler only crawled URLs from the domain you set to crawl. ✅
All other external links ( including subdomains ) will be ignored ❌
All dynamic JS URLs will be ignored ( here is a Technical reason & solution 🤓)
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Example: https://desyr.co.uk
If you view the page-source*, you will see only these standard URLs:



​Reason 3: You entered a URL with a /directory/ in it.
​More here >

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