YandexBot Simulator & Tester
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Simulate a YandexBot visit to any URL on your website. Crawl the page and inspect the HTML Yandex gets for Russian and CIS search.
Simulate a YandexBot visit
Enter any URL on your website to crawl it as YandexBot and inspect the HTML it gets.
How to use the YandexBot simulator
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Step 1
Enter a URL
Paste the full URL of any page on your website, such as a product page, a blog post, or the home page.
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Step 2
Select the YandexBot user agent
The tester sends the request with the YandexBot user-agent string, so your server answers the way it answers a real YandexBot visit.
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Step 3
Run the crawl
The simulator requests the page as YandexBot and follows redirects, the same way the crawler does.
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Step 4
Inspect the HTML
Check the status code, redirects, response headers, raw HTML, word count, and Open Graph tags YandexBot gets. If your main content is missing from the HTML, YandexBot cannot read it.
What is YandexBot?
YandexBot is the web crawler for Yandex, the dominant search engine in Russia and popular across CIS countries. Yandex has approximately 60% search market share in Russia. For businesses targeting Russian-speaking audiences, YandexBot optimization is essential.
Why allow YandexBot?
YandexBot robots.txt configuration
Control how YandexBot crawls your website using robots.txt directives. Add these rules to your robots.txt file at the root of your domain, then run the simulator again on the same URL to confirm the change.
Allow YandexBot
# Allow YandexBot User-agent: YandexBot Allow: / User-agent: YandexImages Allow: / User-agent: YandexVideo Allow: /
Block YandexBot
# Block YandexBot User-agent: YandexBot Disallow: /
User-Agent String: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)
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