{"id":28496,"date":"2026-09-08T21:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/yandex-bilgi-bankasi\/how-does-yandex-search-work\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T02:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T23:34:34","slug":"how-does-yandex-search-work","status":"publish","type":"ar_ykb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/yandex-bilgi-bankasi\/how-does-yandex-search-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How does Yandex search work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yandex describes its own pipeline in four stages, and knowing which stage a problem belongs to is what turns a vague complaint into a fixable one.<\/p>\n<h2>Stage 1 \u2014 crawling<\/h2>\n<p>The robot decides which sites to crawl, how often, and how many pages. Its list of known pages comes from internal and external links, the sitemap, Yandex Metrica data, and <code>robots.txt<\/code>. Pages <strong>larger than 10 MB are not indexed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Response handling is explicit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>200 OK<\/code> \u2014 crawled.<\/li>\n<li><code>3XX<\/code> \u2014 the robot crawls the redirect target.<\/li>\n<li><strong><code>4XX<\/code> and <code>5XX<\/code> \u2014 the page is not included, and is <em>removed<\/em> if it was already in search.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the useful trick that follows: if a page is temporarily broken through a CMS fault, configure the server to answer <strong><code>429<\/code><\/strong> instead. The robot checks the code and does not drop the page. But sustained <code>429<\/code> tells Yandex the server is struggling and <strong>reduces the crawl rate<\/strong>, so it is a bandage, not a setting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HTTP\/2 is supported<\/strong> \u2014 faster loading and lower server load, though Yandex is clear it does not change crawl frequency or ranking, and HTTP\/1.1 continues to work.<\/p>\n<h2>Stage 2 \u2014 indexing<\/h2>\n<p>The robot analyses and stores the content: the <code>description<\/code> meta tag, the <code>title<\/code>, Schema.org markup for the snippet; the <code>noindex<\/code> directive, which keeps the page out; <code>rel=\"canonical\"<\/code>, declaring the preferred address for a group; and the text, images and video. Where content matches across pages, they become duplicates.<\/p>\n<h2>Stages 3 and 4<\/h2>\n<p>A database of pages eligible for search is assembled, and results are generated from it. Results update regularly, <strong>and those updates can move a site&#8217;s position without anything on the site changing<\/strong> \u2014 which is the correct answer to most &#8220;we dropped and nothing changed&#8221; questions.<\/p>\n<h2>Why the model matters<\/h2>\n<p>Each stage has its own diagnostic. Not crawled is a links, sitemap or availability problem. Crawled but not indexed is a directive, duplicate or quality problem. Indexed but not ranking is a relevance problem. Working the wrong stage is the most expensive mistake in technical SEO, and this page is the map that prevents it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yandex describes its own pipeline in four stages, and knowing which stage a problem belongs to is what turns a vague complaint into a fixable one. Stage 1 \u2014 crawling The robot decides which sites to crawl, how often, and how many pages. Its list of known pages comes from internal and external links, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":72,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ar_ykb_kategori":[764],"ar_ykb_etiket":[],"class_list":["post-28496","ar_ykb","type-ar_ykb","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ar_ykb_kategori-site-indexing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ar_ykb"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29143,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28496\/revisions\/29143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ar_ykb_kategori","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb_kategori?post=28496"},{"taxonomy":"ar_ykb_etiket","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb_etiket?post=28496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}