YandexImages

Crawls images for Yandex Images.

Follows robots.txt

User agent token: YandexImages
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 YandexImages 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 YandexImages

User-agent: YandexImages
Disallow: /

Allow YandexImages

User-agent: YandexImages
Allow: /

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Questions, answered.

YandexImages is a search engine crawler run by Yandex. Crawls images for Yandex Images.

Yes. Yandex says YandexImages follows robots.txt.

Add "User-agent: YandexImages" 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. YandexImages indexes pages for Yandex's search results, which send people to your site.

Usually not. Blocking YandexImages 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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