YandexBot Crawler Simulator
Test how Yandex's crawler sees your website. Optimize for Russia's dominant search engine and CIS markets.
Test your site with YandexBot
Enter your URL to see how YandexBot views your site.
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 accesses your website using robots.txt directives. Add these rules to your robots.txt file at the root of your domain.
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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