Indexing a site with the Yandex Metrica tag

The Yandex robot learns about the site’s pages from different sources. One of them is the Yandex Metrica tracking tag. You can tell Yandex to crawl pages that have the tag.

If you want the robot to visit your website as soon as possible, link your Yandex Metrica tag to the website verified in Yandex Webmaster and enable the tag crawling option.

Once the robot crawls the pages on the site, they can appear in search results provided indexing isn’t prohibited. To give the robot a better idea of the pages, use the Sitemap file.

Step 1. Add a site to Yandex Webmaster

Add the site with installed Yandex Metrica tag to Yandex Webmaster and verify site management rights.

Step 2. In Yandex Metrica, send a request to link the site

1. Go to the Settings page (the Tag tab).
2. Click Link to Yandex Webmaster next to the site address. If additional addresses are specified in the tag settings:
   • Subdomain — verify the rights using simplified verification in Yandex Webmaster and send a match request;
   • Additional address: Add it to Yandex Webmaster and send a request to link the site.
   • Mirror — link the tag to the main address of the site (the address to be shown in search results).

After you send a match confirmation request, a notification will be sent to the Yandex Webmaster user’s email address specified in the notification settingsnotification settings (if they are subscribed to Requests from Yandex Metrica notifications).

Step 3. Confirm your request in Yandex Webmaster

When the request to link the site has been sent, Webmaster starts searching for matches to the site domain. The protocol and the presence of the www prefix are ignored. If matches are found, confirm the request:

1. Go to Settings -> Yandex Metrica tags.
2. Click Confirm next to the appropriate tag ID.

You can track the status of linking the tag to the site:

• In Yandex Metrica, go to Settings and open the Tag tab.
• In Yandex Webmaster, go to Settings -> Yandex Metrica tags.

Step 4. Enable the tag crawling option for your website in Yandex Webmaster

1. Go to Indexing → Tags crawl.
2. Opposite the Yandex Metrica tag that you linked to the site, enable crawling.
   
   The robot will be able to crawl pages where a tag is installed. This option will apply to all versions of the site: both HTTP and HTTPS, as well as with or without the www prefix.

During the crawl, the robot searches the site for pages that can be included in search results. In some cases, the crawl might stop so that you can check the pages. The robot may find many pages — Yandex Webmaster only shows examples. They can help you understand which page groups are allowed to participate in search and which are not.

You may get a notification that the list is ready for verification, depending on the settings:

• In Yandex Webmaster, on the Notifications and Diagnosis pages.
• Sent to the email address that you specified in the notification settings.

To check examples, go to Indexing → Tags crawl and click the Page examples button next to the tag you linked the site to.

If you think that in the list:

In addition, we recommend adding pages that can participate in the search in the Sitemap file so that they are included in the search results more quickly.

To check which pages appeared in search results, go to Pages in search.

If this option is disabled, the robot stops receiving information about new site pages from Yandex Metrica. But it can still index pages by learning about them from other sources. Therefore we recommend blocking indexing of non-public content. To find out if pages you don’t want to be indexed are included in search, go to How to exclude pages from search.

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