Context-sensitive help

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 your rights to them with the same code.

The site added to Yandex.Webmaster must return the HTTP 200 OK status.

To work with Yandex.Webmaster, you need to confirm your rights.

If you added the website with subdomains, use the simplified rights verification with one code. Single code verification isn't available if the website rights were delegated to you.

How do I reset another user's rights?

Brief information about errors, crawling of the website by the robot, page status in search statistics, and search query statistics.

This section shows the websites you added to Yandex.Webmaster. A summary of statistics on the website status in search is available if you verified your rights for website management.

If Yandex.Webmaster detects errors on the website, this information is shown in the section. The site is checked every day.

Information about errors doesn't affect website ranking or indexing, but we recommend fixing “Critical” and “Fatal” errors. Learn more

If you fixed an error, the message in Yandex.Webmaster disappears after the robot crawls your site.

You can subscribe to notifications to receive messages by email.

This section allows you to view 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 page contents.

This section shows the website pages included in Yandex search results.

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. Usually, it takes a few days for the changes to appear.

Learn more

How do I exclude pages from the search?

How do I speed up indexing of site pages?

The service shows the website sections that contain no less than 10 pages and make 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 website structure, information about it is preserved in the search engine database.

How can I prohibit the Yandex robot from downloading pages in a particular section?

You can check if the robot knows about a website page if you verified your rights to the website.

In the URL field, you can enter the full URL or the relative path from the website root beginning with “/”.

The 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 switches 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. Usually, it takes a few days for the changes to appear.

What is an HTTP status?

You can track how Yandex indexes the most important website pages and the most popular pages recommended by Yandex.Webmaster. Learn more

To be informed about changes by email, configure notifications.

An internal link is a link leading from one page on your website to another page on the same website.

Broken internal links can negatively affect the website's usability if they prevent visitors from navigating the website.

A link is considered broken if the robot gets an HTTP response status other than 2XX or 3XX.

Broken links can be removed from the search index. To learn more about this, go to the “Crawl statistics” section.

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 website to a page on your website.

A link might be broken if the robot gets an HTTP status code other than 2XX or 3XX.

A link is considered removed if the robot doesn't find it when crawling the source website 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.

Add the Sitemap file to Yandex.Webmaster to speed up website indexing.

Check the new Sitemap file before adding it.

To notify Yandex about changes in the file, click the icon.

Check the Sitemap file before adding it to Yandex.Webmaster.

You can notify Yandex about changing the website address. The address specified in the field will be the main mirror.

What are mirrors?

What is the main mirror?

Recommendations for moving

This section contains information about the region set for the website. Region changes take effect after they are verified and the search database is updated.

How do I set the site region correctly?

This section contains statistics on search queries that are available in the Managing query groups section. Learn more

How do I get data for a certain query?

Why do statistics in Yandex.Webmaster differ from data in other Yandex services?

The section shows the search queries that the website is in the first 50 positions of Yandex search results for. The indicators are averaged over the past 7 days. Learn more

How do I add my own queries?

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 are generated automatically. For the robot to identify them correctly, the site must meet the requirements.

What are sitelinks?

Check if the robots.txt file is formed correctly. The Results of robots.txt analysis section lists the directives for the robot to take into account when indexing the website.

To check if indexing certain pages is allowed or prohibited, enter the pages in the URL list field.

You can also track changes to robots.txt and download a version of the file.

Find out if the website is available for Yandex robots.

The robots use different user agents. To determine which robot accesses your website, check its User-agent line in the server logs.

List of Yandex bots

Find out if the website is optimized for mobile devices. The service will check the necessary parameters and give recommendations about the website page.

Learn more about adapting a site for mobile devices

When Yandex detects a threat or violation on the website, information about it is shown in this section. You can subscribe to notifications to receive messages by email.

This section shows the website pages included in Yandex search results. 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 pages from the search?

How do I speed up indexing of site pages?

The section helps notify Yandex about new and updated pages. Once you send the page addresses you can view their statuses:

“In queue”: The page has been sent to the robot for crawling. The request will be processed within 3 days.

“Crawled”: The page was crawled by the robot. The page information will be updated in the search within 2 weeks.

“Error”: The robot couldn't access the page.

In this section, you can manage the Turbo pages on your site. They can be formed in different ways.

RSS feed description

Yandex Turbo Pages API

In this section, you can add general information about a site that Turbo pages are generated for.

If the data source doesn't contain information about statistics tags or advertising systems, you can add it in this section. If you specified information in the data source and in the interface, the data in the source takes priority.

In this section you can manage Turbo pages of your online store. To generate Turbo pages, use a YML file that meets the Yandex.Market requirements. Learn more in the instructions for turning on Turbo pages.

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 sites you added to Yandex.Webmaster, if their settings aren't changed.

To receive messages by email, don't forget to specify the email address.

Learn more about setting up notifications

Debugging helps you quickly check the contents of the data source and fix errors found.

Site quality index. Reflects the site's relevance for users.

How do I add the SQI icon to my site?

How is SQI calculated?

View the SQI of other sites

The URL contains the link to the product page and the offer ID. Learn more

This section contains general information about SQI and badges available for your site. This information shows you how useful the site is for visitors. You can also compare your site data with the data from other sites.