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.
To receive notifications about changes, set up notifications for each individual 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 | Event that triggers notifications |
|---|---|
| Weekly site summary | The service prepared a summary of changes to the site:
The summary is generated for the period from Monday to Sunday. |
| Updated search database | Updates to the search engine database and indexed pages. |
| Main mirror update | The robot chose a different URL as the main site mirror. |
| Fatal errors | One of the periodic site checks revealed problems. For solutions, see the Site diagnostics section. |
| Critical issues | |
| Possible issues | |
| Recommendations | The service prepared suggestions for improving the site's representation in search results. For more information, see the Site diagnostics section. |
| Changes in the robots.txt file | The file contents changed since it was last accessed by the robot. For the file change history, see the Robots.txt analysis section. |
| Requests from Yandex.Metrica | A Yandex.Metrica user requested confirmation for linking the tag to the site. |
| Crawling by Yandex.Metrica tags isn't enabled. | The site is linked to the Yandex.Metrica counter, but page crawling is not enabled yet. For more information, see Indexing a site with the Yandex.Metrica tag. The first notification comes a day after the linking request is confirmed. |
| Updated list of pages that may appear in search based on Yandex.Metrica data | Yandex.Webmaster updated the examples of pages. To view them, go to . |
| Site reviews | A Yandex user wrote a review for your site. Yandex.Webmaster regularly checks for new reviews. To view your reviews, go to . |
| Topic | Event that triggers notifications |
|---|---|
| Weekly site summary | The service prepared a summary of changes to the site:
The summary is generated for the period from Monday to Sunday. |
| Updated search database | Updates to the search engine database and indexed pages. |
| Main mirror update | The robot chose a different URL as the main site mirror. |
| Fatal errors | One of the periodic site checks revealed problems. For solutions, see the Site diagnostics section. |
| Critical issues | |
| Possible issues | |
| Recommendations | The service prepared suggestions for improving the site's representation in search results. For more information, see the Site diagnostics section. |
| Changes in the robots.txt file | The file contents changed since it was last accessed by the robot. For the file change history, see the Robots.txt analysis section. |
| Requests from Yandex.Metrica | A Yandex.Metrica user requested confirmation for linking the tag to the site. |
| Crawling by Yandex.Metrica tags isn't enabled. | The site is linked to the Yandex.Metrica counter, but page crawling is not enabled yet. For more information, see Indexing a site with the Yandex.Metrica tag. The first notification comes a day after the linking request is confirmed. |
| Updated list of pages that may appear in search based on Yandex.Metrica data | Yandex.Webmaster updated the examples of pages. To view them, go to . |
| Site reviews | A Yandex user wrote a review for your site. Yandex.Webmaster regularly checks for new reviews. To view your reviews, go to . |
In Yandex.Webmaster, you can track site pages you consider important and get notifications about changes in search concerning these pages.
| Topic | Event that triggers notifications |
|---|---|
| Changes in the page title | The title specified in the title element changed. |
| Changes in the last crawl date | The robot visited a site page. |
| Changes in the page code | The robot accessed a site page, and the response code changed. |
| Changes in the page version in the search | The robot detected that the page content changed. The notification contains the date when the robot found out about the changes. |
| Changes in the search status | The page status changed. For example, the robot detected that the page quality isn't good enough and excluded it from the search results. |
| Changes in the "Description" tag | The content of the Description meta tag changed. |
| Changes in the Canonical attribute | The reference to the page's canonical address changed. |
| Topic | Event that triggers notifications |
|---|---|
| Changes in the page title | The title specified in the title element changed. |
| Changes in the last crawl date | The robot visited a site page. |
| Changes in the page code | The robot accessed a site page, and the response code changed. |
| Changes in the page version in the search | The robot detected that the page content changed. The notification contains the date when the robot found out about the changes. |
| Changes in the search status | The page status changed. For example, the robot detected that the page quality isn't good enough and excluded it from the search results. |
| Changes in the "Description" tag | The content of the Description meta tag changed. |
| Changes in the Canonical attribute | The reference to the page's canonical address changed. |
| Topic | Event that triggers notifications |
|---|---|
| Fatal errors | Turbo pages no longer meet the requirements and won't be shown in search results and other Yandex services. The basic or mobile site version is displayed instead. |
| Critical issues | Turbo pages no longer meet the requirements and won't be shown in search results and other Yandex services. The basic or mobile site version is displayed instead. Errors updating the Turbo pages source. |
| Warnings about errors on Turbo pages | The source for Turbo pages contains errors that may lead to incomplete display of Turbo pages in search results. |
| Topic | Event that triggers notifications |
|---|---|
| Fatal errors | Turbo pages no longer meet the requirements and won't be shown in search results and other Yandex services. The basic or mobile site version is displayed instead. |
| Critical issues | Turbo pages no longer meet the requirements and won't be shown in search results and other Yandex services. The basic or mobile site version is displayed instead. Errors updating the Turbo pages source. |
| Warnings about errors on Turbo pages | The source for Turbo pages contains errors that may lead to incomplete display of Turbo pages in search results. |
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 notifications (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 |  — Indicates that general settings don't apply for a certain site |
| Receive notifications (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 | — Indicates 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
. 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 Yandex.Webmaster
To view messages, go to Notifications. By default, the list shows all messages. You can customize the list.
To mark all notifications as read or delete them, select their type, mark them in the list, and click Select all.
