Context-sensitive help
- Add site
- Verifying your rights
- General information (Summary)
- My sites
- Site diagnostics
- Crawl statistics
- Pages in the search (menu section)
- Site structure
- Check URL status
- Important pages
- Links
- Sitemap files
- Moving the site
- Site region
- Search queries
- Sitelinks
- Robots.txt analysis
- Server response check
- Audit pages for mobile compatibility
- Security and violations
- Searchable pages
- Reindex pages
- Notifications
- SQI
- Titles and descriptions
- Uploading YML files
- Checking for a certificate from the National Certification Center
- Query monitoring
Add site
When adding a site, specify the URL for accessing it: either with or without the www prefix, and over the HTTP or HTTPS protocol. You can copy the address from the browser.
If the site is a subdomain, add the primary domain and subdomain to the service separately. You can verify the rights with one code.
A site added to Yandex Webmaster must return the HTTP 200 OK status code.
Verifying your rights
To use Yandex Webmaster, you need to verify your access rights.
If you added the website with subdomains, use the simplified rights verification with one code. It is not available when delegating the site rights.
How do I reset another user's rights?
General information (Summary)
Brief information about errors, crawling of the site by the robot, pages' status in search statistics, search queries statistics.
My sites
This section shows the sites you added to Yandex Webmaster. Statistics summary on the site status in the search is available if you verified your rights for the site management.
Site diagnostics
If Yandex Webmaster detects errors on your site, information about them is shown in this section. The site is checked every day.
Information about errors doesn't affect the site ranking or indexing, but we recommend fixing any "Critical" or "Fatal" errors. Learn more.
If you fixed an error, the message in Yandex Webmaster will disappear after the indexing bot crawls your site.
You can subscribe to notifications to receive messages by email.
Crawl statistics
This section allows you to see which pages on your site are crawled by the robot. You can identify the addresses of pages the robot failed to load because the hosting server was unavailable, or due to errors in the content of the pages.
Pages in the search (menu section)
The section shows the site pages taking part in Yandex search.
A page may be missing from the search results if it duplicates the content of another page, contains spam or viruses, redirects to another URL, or if there was a downloading error.
Even if the pages have been indexed and included in the search immediately after publication, the data in Yandex Webmaster may be updated with a delay. It usually takes a few days for the changes to appear.
How do I exclude some pages from search results?
How do I speed up the indexing of site pages?
Site structure
The service shows the site sections containing not less than 10 pages and making up more than 1% of the total number of pages that have been loaded into the search database.
If you delete a custom section from the site structure, the information about it is preserved in the search engine database.
How do I block the indexing robot from visiting pages in a particular section?
Check URL status
You can check if the robot knows about a particular page if you verified your rights to the site.
In the URL field, you can enter the full URL or the relative path from the site root beginning with "/".
Collection and processing of information usually takes up to 2 minutes. Sometimes it may take several hours. As soon as the system finishes processing the data, the report status changes to "ready".
Even if the pages have been indexed and included in the search immediately after publication, the data in Yandex Webmaster may be updated with a delay. It usually takes a few days for the changes to appear.
Important pages
You can track how Yandex indexes your key site pages and the most popular pages recommended by Yandex Webmaster. Learn more.
To get information about changes by email, configure notifications.
Links
An internal link is a link leading from one page on your site to another page on the same site.
Broken internal links can negatively affect the site's usability if they prevent visitors from navigating the site.
A link is considered broken if the robot gets an HTTP status other than 2XX or 3XX.
Broken links can be removed from the indexing. To learn more about this, go to "Crawl statistics".
The information about a link's availability is updated in the service after the page is reindexed by the robot.
An external link is a link that leads from another site to a page on your site.
A link is considered broken if the robot gets an HTTP status other than 2XX or 3XX.
A link is considered removed if the robot does not find it when crawling the source site again, or if the page with the link is temporarily unavailable.
If the site administrator inserts or removes the link, the changes are shown in the service after the page is reindexed by the robot.
Sitemap files
Add a Sitemap file to Yandex Webmaster to speed up the indexing of your site.
Check the new Sitemap file before adding it.
To notify Yandex about changes in the file, click the 
icon. This will speed up processing.
Check your Sitemap file before adding it to Yandex Webmaster.
Moving the site
You can notify Yandex about changing the site address. The address specified in the field will be the main site address.
Main address and secondary mirror
Recommendations for moving a site.
Site region
The section contains information about the region set for the site. Region changes come into force after the search base is checked and updated.
What sites need regional affiliation?
How do I choose the right region for my site?
How do I change the site region?
How do I set the site region correctly
Search queries
This section contains statistics on search queries that are available in the Managing query groups section. Learn more.
Why do statistics in Yandex Webmaster differ from data in other Yandex services?
The section shows search queries, for which the site is in the first 50 positions of Yandex search results. The indicators are averaged over the past 7 days. Learn more.
How do I add my own queries?
Why do statistics in Yandex Webmaster differ from data in other Yandex services?
Yandex can select search queries that match the content of your site to attract additional traffic. You can use the suggested queries for targeting ads. Learn more.
Page statistics help you understand how well site pages attract visitors from search results. This information will help you evaluate the effectiveness of page snippets and make them more informative if necessary. Learn more.
Why do statistics in Yandex Webmaster differ from data in other Yandex services?
Sitelinks
Sitelinks are generated automatically. For the robot to identify them correctly, the site must meet the requirements.
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Robots.txt analysis
Check the structure of your robots.txt. The Results of robots.txt analysis block lists the directives for the robot to take into account when indexing the site.
To check if indexing of a certain page is allowed or prohibited, enter the page in the URL list field.
You can also track changes to robots.txt and download a version of the file.
Server response check
Find out if the site is available for the Yandex robots.
Robots use different user agents. To determine which bot accesses your site, check its User agent in the server logs.
Audit pages for mobile compatibility
Find out if the site is optimized for mobile devices. The service will check necessary parameters and give recommendations about the site page.
Learn more about improving usability for mobile devices.
Security and violations
When Yandex finds a threat or violation on the site, information about it is shown in this section. You can subscribe to notifications to receive messages by email.
Searchable pages
The section shows the site pages taking part in Yandex search. A page may be missing from the search results if it duplicates the content of another page, contains spam or viruses, redirects to another URL, or if there was a downloading error.
How do I exclude some pages from search results?
How do I speed up the indexing of site pages?
Reindex pages
The section helps to notify Yandex about new and updated pages. Once you send the page addresses you can view their status:
"In queue": The page has been queued for indexing. The request will be processed within 3 days
"Crawled": The page has been visited by the indexing bot. The page information will be updated in the search within 2 weeks.
"Error": The indexing bot couldn't access the page.
Notifications
You can use notifications to monitor the site status in the search results. Use these settings to change how you receive notifications or choose a set of notifications that differs from the general settings. To receive messages by email, don't forget to specify the email address.
Learn more about setting up notifications.
You can use notifications to monitor the site status in the search results. These settings apply to all the sites you added to Yandex Webmaster unless you changed their settings.
To receive messages by email, don't forget to specify the email address.
Learn more about setting up notifications.
SQI
Site quality index. Reflects the site's relevance for users.
Titles and descriptions
This section helps you check if the title element and the description meta tag on the pages of your website are unique. The data is displayed if the title or description is duplicated on many pages of the website. The information is updated after the robot visits the pages.
Uploading YML files
In Yandex search, the enhanced site appearance can be formed based on the information you transfer. To transfer data, you need to create a YML file in accordance with your field of activity, place it on the website, and change settings in Yandex Webmaster.
After uploading, the file will be checked for errors and quality within a few days. If the file meets the requirements, its data will be used to form the enhanced site appearance in search results. The transferred information can be supplemented by other sources used by Yandex.
Checking for a certificate from the National Certification Center
SSL/TLS certificates are used for securely processing user data and are necessary for sites that use HTTPS.
A certificate from the National Certification Center is an SSL/TLS security certificate requested on the Gosuslugi.ru portal. You can use such a certificate instead of a revoked or expired foreign one. Learn more.
Query monitoring
Shows how often Yandex users enter a search query.
This section presents the statistics on queries and pages of your site that appear in Yandex search results. Use filters and data sorting to find areas of change and potential opportunities to improve the visibility of your site in search results. Learn more