Recommendations

This article contains tips for implementing common recommendations found on the Website optimization → Site diagnostics page in Yandex Webmaster. The recommendations help you improve the site's representation in search results.

Tip

Configure notifications about the results of site monitoring.

Site subdomains found in search results

This notification appears only once, when Yandex Webmaster discovers search results with a subdomain of your site that has not been added to Yandex Webmaster. To receive similar messages in the future, configure the notification “About subdomains” for the top-level domain.

If you want to track the status of a found subdomain in search, add it to Yandex Webmaster.

If the subdomain should not be present in the search results, we recommend removing it from the search.

Site region is not set

Site regionality can be taken into account when displaying search results for location-dependent requests. For example, when a user from Moscow searches for information about car servicing using the request [auto repair]. Most likely, they want to find the nearest car service garage. In this case, if the site is assigned the region Moscow or Russia, the site will be displayed in the search results.

Which sites need to be region-specific?

How do I choose the right region for the website?

Regions are not specified in Yandex Business Directory

If you added the website to Yandex Business and specified the region, but this message is still displayed in Yandex Webmaster, check that in Yandex Business:

  • The company card has been approved.

  • More than one week has passed since the organization was added to Yandex Business.

  • The site address is the same as in Yandex Webmaster: either with or without the www prefix and with the HTTP or HTTPS protocol.

  • The main page of the site is specified (for example, http://example.com).

Favicon file not found

This means that your site does not have a favicon — place one. The recommendation will disappear in Yandex Webmaster when the robot loads the favicon and it starts to appear in the search results.

The site isn't optimized for mobile devices

If issues are found on your site:

  1. Look through the list of pages that don't meet the requirements for display on mobile devices.
  2. Check the pages to find mistakes.
  3. Make changes to the site.
  4. Go to Website optimization → Site diagnostics in Yandex Webmaster and click Check next to the recommendation.

Note

The Site diagnostics page in Yandex Webmaster shows the site check results on a certain date. If you made changes to mobile pages since the last check, you can click the Check button again and wait for the updates data.

Contact support

Tell us what your question is about so we can direct you to the right specialist:

For more information about assigning a region, see Site region.

Ask a question about editing information in Yandex Business.

Check out the recommendations. If you followed the recommendations but the message still appears, fill out the form:

The message will disappear when the Yandex robot downloads the favicon, and it will appear in the search results.

In this case, check if the robot visited your site and edit the favicon. For more information, see the Favicon section.

See the recommendations above. If you still have questions about website optimization for mobile devices, fill out the form:




You can also go to

A query that is related to a specific region. For example, [taxi] or [buy iphone]. Learn more

A small image displayed in the snippet in Yandex search results, next to the site address in the browser's address bar, and next to the site name in Favorites or Bookmarks in the web browser.

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