YandexBot

Crawls pages for Yandex search.

Follows robots.txt

User agent token: YandexBot
Operator: Yandex
Verification: reverse DNS yandex.ru, yandex.net, yandex.com
Source: Yandex documentation

What a search engine crawler does

A search engine crawler indexes pages for regular search results. Blocking it removes the site from that engine, so most sites keep it allowed.

Block or allow YandexBot in robots.txt

Add one of these to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. Crawlers read it before they fetch anything else.

Block YandexBot

User-agent: YandexBot
Disallow: /

Allow YandexBot

User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /

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Questions, answered.

YandexBot is a search engine crawler run by Yandex. Crawls pages for Yandex search.

Yes. Yandex says YandexBot follows robots.txt.

Add "User-agent: YandexBot" and "Disallow: /" to your robots.txt.

Run a reverse DNS lookup on the IP. A real request resolves to yandex.ru, yandex.net, yandex.com, and a forward lookup of that name returns the same IP.

Yes. YandexBot indexes pages for Yandex's search results, which send people to your site.

Usually not. Blocking YandexBot removes your pages from its search results.

In its own documentation at https://yandex.com/support/webmaster/en/robot-workings/check-yandex-robots. Every fact on this page comes from there.

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