New features in Yandex.Webmaster

This section lists key changes to the service.

February 18, 2020

• The new View in search results page helps you improve your site's appearance in search results.

November 22, 2019.

• Now you can download an archive of broken internal links on the site. Learn more
• Page statistics are available for evaluating traffic from search results.
• Now you can respond to site reviews.

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 a notification that the organization's business card was created in Yandex.Directory. Learn more

March 29, 2019

• Now you can view the site reviews sent through the Public page. Learn more

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December 26, 2018

• Now you can view and respond to reviews of your organization on the Site quality → Reviews page. Learn more

December 12, 2018

• With “robots.txt analysis” you can track changes to robots.txt and download a version of the file.
• 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 that are ranked by Yandex.Radar. You can choose the type of sites to compare your site with. Indicators are calculated based on the Yandex.Search data, as before. Learn more
• You can embed the Click-to-buy form on the Turbo pages of online stores.

October 17, 2018

• Now you can 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 the Turbo pages at Turbo pages → Debugging.

September 19, 2018

• Turbo pages now support YML format for online stores^β.

September 13, 2018

• Turbo pages now support:

  • Search on the site and in search engines.
  • Embedded Yandex.Music playlists, albums, and tracks.
  • Embedded Yandex.Maps.
  • Links with anchor.
  • Ratings.
  • Media content gallery.
  • Blocks of links to additional materials. You can insert an unlimited number of these blocks anywhere on the Turbo page.
  • Tracking Yandex.Metrica goals.

June 08, 2018

• Turbo pages now support:

  • Feedback form.
  • Embedded content from social networks Vkontakte, Facebook, Classmates, Instagram and Twitter.
  • Business chats.
  • Feedback section with a call option.
  • Button with custom content.
  • Images in GIF format.
  • New sources for adding videos.

June 05, 2018

• You can use CSS to design your Turbo page content.

April 27, 2018

• Now you can quickly check the contents of individual item elements before creating an RSS feed for generating Turbo pages.

March 26, 2018

• In the Turbo pages → Settings section of Yandex.Webmaster, you can specify up to 10 YAN and ADFOX ad blocks, as well as manage their position on the Turbo page. Learn more

February 15, 2018

• There is a new Crawl rate tool to replace the Crawl-delay directive specified in the robots.txt file.
• You can connect an unlimited number of analytics systems to Turbo pages.

January 09, 2018

• Turbo pages now support:

  Additional content

  • Tables.
  • Quotes.
  • Comments.
  • Embedded content from third-party resources, for example, video.
  • Image gallery.
  • Menu.
  • The “Share” block.
  • Infinite scroll.

  Advanced web analytics features

  • Connecting any web analytics systems.
  • Sending session parameters to Yandex.Metrica.

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
• When reporting pages that were removed from your site, you can submit up to 500 pages at a time. Learn more
• All sites have recommended search queries that can attract additional traffic to your site. Learn more

October 06, 2017

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

September 14, 2017

• Priority update of Sitemap files is now available. Learn more

July 20, 2017

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

June 23, 2017

• Advanced filters are now available in the Check URL status, Pages in search, Crawl statistics and External links sections.

April 21, 2017

• Now you can choose the type of device (desktop or mobile) from which the users entered their queries in the Search queries → Query statistics section.

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 the Indexing → Important page monitoring section. Learn more

March 28, 2017

• The Indexing → Crawling statistics section has been redesigned. It provides information about the site pages crawled by the robot. The data is available within six hours after the robot crawled a page. Learn more

March 6, 2017

• The Indexing → Pages in search section now contains information about site pages included in the search. Learn more
• You can configure notifications flexibly. You can receive messages about recent updates (search database, mirrors, sitelinks) and site diagnostics. You can view these notifications in the service or in your email.

February 22, 2017

• It is now possible to download data in XSL and CSV formats from the Indexing → Pages in search section. Learn more

January 11, 2017

• A summary of the main site parameters is now available in the General information section .