Notifications
When you add a site in Yandex.Webmaster or confirm your site management rights in the service, you receive access to information about changes to the site in search results. For example, you can find out which pages appeared in search results or disappeared from them.
Yandex.Webmaster will send you notifications about all important changes. You can configure notifications for a certain topic:
| Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| Global messages and news for webmasters from services | Notifications about important changes in the service and invitations to webinars. |
| Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| Global messages and news for webmasters from services | Notifications about important changes in the service and invitations to webinars. |
| Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| Weekly site summary | Summary of site changes:
The summary is generated for the period from Monday to Sunday. |
| The search database update | Updating the search engine database and indexing site pages. |
| The main mirror update | Notifications that the robot chose a different URL as the main site mirror. |
| Fatal errors | Information about problems revealed during the last site check is available in the Site diagnostics section. |
| Critical issues | |
| Possible issues | |
| Recommendations | Recommendations for improving the site's representation in search results are available in the Site diagnostics section. |
| Modifying the robots.txt file | Notification that the file contents changed since it was last accessed by the robot. For information about the file's change history, see Robots.txt analysis. |
| Requests from Yandex.Metrica | Notification that a Yandex.Metrica user requested confirmation for linking the tag to the site. |
| Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| Weekly site summary | Summary of site changes:
The summary is generated for the period from Monday to Sunday. |
| The search database update | Updating the search engine database and indexing site pages. |
| The main mirror update | Notifications that the robot chose a different URL as the main site mirror. |
| Fatal errors | Information about problems revealed during the last site check is available in the Site diagnostics section. |
| Critical issues | |
| Possible issues | |
| Recommendations | Recommendations for improving the site's representation in search results are available in the Site diagnostics section. |
| Modifying the robots.txt file | Notification that the file contents changed since it was last accessed by the robot. For information about the file's change history, see Robots.txt analysis. |
| Requests from Yandex.Metrica | Notification that a Yandex.Metrica user requested confirmation for linking the tag to the site. |
In Yandex.Webmaster, you can track site pages you consider important and get notifications about changes in search concerning these pages.
| Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| Changes in the page title | Sent if the title in the title element changes in the search. |
| Changes in the last crawl date | Tells you the date when the robot visited the site page. |
| Changes in the page code | Sent if the response code changed when the robot last visited the page. |
| Changes in the page version in the search | Tells you the date when the robot detected changes in the page content. |
| Changes in the search status | Sent if there are changes to the page in search. For example, the page was included in search results, but after the last crawl it was considered low-quality and excluded from search. |
| Changes in the "Description" tag | Notification of significant changes in the Description meta tag. |
| Changes in "Canonical" | Notification of changes in canonical references of an important page. |
| Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| Changes in the page title | Sent if the title in the title element changes in the search. |
| Changes in the last crawl date | Tells you the date when the robot visited the site page. |
| Changes in the page code | Sent if the response code changed when the robot last visited the page. |
| Changes in the page version in the search | Tells you the date when the robot detected changes in the page content. |
| Changes in the search status | Sent if there are changes to the page in search. For example, the page was included in search results, but after the last crawl it was considered low-quality and excluded from search. |
| Changes in the "Description" tag | Notification of significant changes in the Description meta tag. |
| Changes in "Canonical" | Notification of changes in canonical references of an important page. |
| Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| Fatal errors | Warning that Turbo pages don't meet the requirements and will soon disappear from the search results and other Yandex services. The standard or mobile version of the site will be displayed instead. |
| Critical issues | Warning that Turbo pages don't meet the requirements and will soon disappear from the search results and other Yandex services. Instead, standard or mobile version of the site will be displayed. Errors updating the Turbo pages source. |
| Warnings about errors on Turbo pages | Warnings that the source for Turbo pages contains errors that may lead to incomplete display of Turbo pages in search results. |
| Notifications about new features | Alerts on the new Turbo pages functionality. |
| Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| Fatal errors | Warning that Turbo pages don't meet the requirements and will soon disappear from the search results and other Yandex services. The standard or mobile version of the site will be displayed instead. |
| Critical issues | Warning that Turbo pages don't meet the requirements and will soon disappear from the search results and other Yandex services. Instead, standard or mobile version of the site will be displayed. Errors updating the Turbo pages source. |
| Warnings about errors on Turbo pages | Warnings that the source for Turbo pages contains errors that may lead to incomplete display of Turbo pages in search results. |
| Notifications about new features | Alerts on the new Turbo pages functionality. |
Configuring notifications
You can view notifications in the Yandex.Webmaster interface and in your email. Yandex.Webmaster lets you set up notifications for all sites you have access to, as well as for each site separately.
There are several notification statuses:
| Receive notification (active status) | Don't receive notifications (inactive status) |
|---|---|
 — On the site. |  — On the site. |
 — By email. |  — By email. |
 — General settings apply. Displayed in the settings for the site |  — Notifies that general settings don't apply for a certain site. |
| Receive notification (active status) | Don't receive notifications (inactive status) |
|---|---|
| — On the site. | — On the site. |
| — By email. | — By email. |
| — General settings apply. Displayed in the settings for the site | — Notifies that general settings don't apply for a certain site. |
To switch between active, inactive and default statuses of notifications, click the status icon.
General notification settings
These settings apply to all sites verified in Yandex.Webmaster for the user. They are displayed in the service by default. To change the way you receive them:- Go to the Notifications page.
- Click the Configure button.
In the Address for email notifications section, select the email address for receiving notifications from Yandex.Webmaster. The suggested addresses are taken from Yandex.Passport. To change the address, choose the address from the list and click the Change address button.
How to specify an address that is not in the listChoose Other address from the list. The Yandex.Passport page opens. Enter your email in the Add a backup address for restoring access and click Add address. Then confirm your access to it. After confirming refresh the settings in Yandex.Webmaster. The added email address appears in the list.To receive notifications only in Yandex.Webmaster, choose No email notifications from the list. In this case, you won't receive notifications even if the message is in the active status.
- Choose a status for each notification topic.
Notification settings per site
Use these settings to change how you receive notifications or choose a set of notifications that differs from the general settings.
- Go to the page.
- Choose the site URL to configure notifications for it.
On the Configure notifications for the site page, choose a status for each notification topic.
Here you can set up notifications about the site and the pages you consider important. By default, all topics have the
status. This means that general settings are enabled.
Viewing notifications in the service
- A certain site. Choose it from the Select site list.
- The critical and fatal errorsdetected by the site diagnostics. Set the Only critical option to On.
You can manage notifications you choose from the list:
