New features in Yandex Webmaster

This section lists key changes to the service.

2025

April 1, 2025

  • Turbo pages have been discontinued.
2024

July 15, 2024

July 9, 2024

May 30, 2024

  • The Links tool now provides statistics for internal and external links, without any restrictions on HTTP status codes. The update includes:

    • Display of external links with all HTTP statuses.

    • Error types and their occurrence trends for internal links.

April 12, 2024

March 22, 2024

February 14, 2024

  • The Products in search results tool has been moved to a separate menu section and now includes dedicated pages for:

    • Product cards for placing offers in the card to attract more customers.

    • Recommendations on how to migrate your site while maintaining its SEO value.

    • List of pages that have low value for product search.

    • Recommendations for regions where feeds are not uploaded.

    • Links to Yandex Metrica reports for viewing product statistics.

    • Delivery settings for all feeds.

January 16, 2024

  • For sites selling tickets to entertainment events, we've added Event recommendationsβ, which provides information about recommended venues and events for users, including dates and times.
2023

September 28, 2023

September 1, 2023

August 16, 2023

June 29, 2023

  • Yandex Webmaster now has a dedicated feedback forum where you can share your suggestions, ask questions, leave comments, and vote on other users' ideas.

March 23, 2023

  • Yandex Webmaster now provides optimization adviceβ and other recommendations for site management.

  • To check the validity of the links placed on your site or leading to other sites, go to Links → Broken links in Yandex Webmaster.

  • Use Search query monitoringβ to see which search queries already return your site in Yandex Search results.

2022

May 24, 2022

  • Added an option to indicate to the Yandex robot whether it should execute JavaScript on pages when crawling your site, as well as check the status of pages with JavaScript in the search. Learn more

April 15, 2022

  • You can now see if a site has a National Certification Center certificate. Learn more
2021

October 18, 2021

  • Yandex now supports the IndexNow protocol, which allows you to automatically notify search engines about changes on your site: adding new pages and updating or deleting the existing pages that have been already indexed.

March 25, 2021

  • Yandex Webmaster started showing pages where the title element and the description meta tag are often duplicated. Check the examples of such pages in the Titles and descriptions section.

  • You will now receive a notification if there are many duplicates of the title element and the description meta tag on your site. Learn more

2020

December 8, 2020

  • The rating for online stores in Yandex Market now appears on the Site information page. It shows how satisfied customers are with their store experience.

March 31, 2020

  • Registration in the "Products and prices" program is closed. To display extended snippets for your product offers in Yandex search results, use the Schema.org markup.

February 18, 2020

  • Added the Site information page that helps improve the display of your site in search results.
2019

November 22, 2019

October 9, 2019

  • If Yandex Webmaster finds issues related to the site's favicon, you will receive a message about it. On the Diagnostics page, you can find out exactly what happened and how to fix the error.

June 28, 2019

  • You may receive notification that the organization's business card has been created in Yandex Business. Learn more

March 29, 2019

2018

December 26, 2018

  • You can now view and respond to reviews about your organization on the Site quality → Reviews page. Learn more

December 12, 2018

  • Added an option to track changes to robots.txt and download a version of the file using the robots.txt analysis.

  • You can use a Yandex Metrica tag to tell Yandex when to crawl your site pages. Learn more

  • In the Trends report on search queries, the group of similar sites now consists of resources included in the Yandex Radar rating. You can choose the type of sites to compare your site with. Indicators are calculated based on Yandex Search data, the same as before. Learn more

  • Added an option to embed the 1-click buying form on the Turbo pages of online stores.

October 17, 2018

  • You can now add and customize the feedback widget for Turbo pages by going to Turbo pages → Settings in Yandex Webmaster.

  • You can check the contents of the YML file used to generate Turbo pages in Turbo pages → Debugging.

September 19, 2018

September 13, 2018

June 8, 2018

June 5, 2018

April 27, 2018

March 26, 2018

  • You can now specify up to 10 YAN and Adfox ad units as well as manage their position on Turbo pages. To do this, go to Turbo pages → Settings in Yandex Webmaster. Learn more

February 15, 2018

  • Added the new Crawl rate tool that replaced the Crawl-delay directive specified in the robots.txt file.
  • You can connect an unlimited number of analytics systems to Turbo pages.

January 9, 2018

November 22, 2017.

  • Now all sites can use Turbo pages. Learn more
  • You can now compare the search traffic of your site with similar sites. Learn more
  • You can notify about the removal of up to 500 pages from the site. Learn more
  • All sites have recommended search queries that can attract additional traffic to your site.

October 6, 2017

  • There is a new weekly newsletter with a summary of site changes. To receive it by email, configure notifications.

September 14, 2017

  • Added the priority update of Sitemap files. Learn more

July 20, 2017

  • Added recommendations for search queries that can potentially attract additional traffic to your site.

June 23, 2017

April 21, 2017

  • Search queries → Query statistics now have a search filter by device type (desktop or mobile).

April 19, 2017

  • You can now track indexing of individual pages and sections of your site. You can set the list of important URLs and configure notifications in Indexing → Important page monitoring. Learn more

March 28, 2017

  • The Indexing → Crawl statistics page received a major overhaul. It now provides information about the site pages crawled by the indexing bot. The data is available within six hours of the robot crawling a page. Learn more

March 6, 2017

  • Indexing → Searchable pages now show information about site pages hidden from search results. Learn more

  • You can configure notifications flexibly. Receive messages about recent updates (search engine database, site addresses, sitelinks) and about the results of site diagnostics. You can view the notifications in the service interface or your mail box.

February 22, 2017

  • You can now download data in XSL and CSV formats from Indexing → Searchable pages. Learn more

January 11, 2017

  • A summary of main site parameters is now available on the General information page.



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