IndexingCrawl statistics
Crawl statistics is the log of what the robot actually did: which pages it fetched, when, and what the server…
Indexing
IndexingSearchable pages
Searchable pages is the report that answers the question clients actually ask: how many of our pages are in Yandex,…
IndexingLow-value or low-demand pages
“Low-value or low-demand” is the exclusion reason that generates the most anxiety and the least action, because it sounds like…
IndexingWhy are pages excluded from the search?
Every excluded page carries a stated reason, listed under Indexing → Searchable pages → Excluded pages. Yandex is unusually forthcoming…
Site structure
Site structure shows Yandex’s own view of how the site is organised, built from URL paths. It lists sections containing…
IndexingStatistics for all site pages
The console’s on-screen reports are capped: 50,000 page changes under Indexing, and the first 3,000 queries over three months under…
Page check
Page check answers, for a single URL, what the robot receives and what Yandex has decided about it. It is…
IndexingConfigure GET parameters
GET parameters create the same content at many URLs — tracking tags, filters, session identifiers — and Yandex may treat…
IndexingImportant page monitoring
Important page monitoring is per-URL surveillance: pick the pages that matter commercially and Yandex reports what happens to them in…
IndexingReindex pages
Reindex pages is how you tell Yandex that specific URLs are new or changed, instead of waiting for the robot’s…
Sitemap files
A sitemap tells Yandex the site’s current structure. It can be declared in robots.txt or added on the Sitemap files…
IndexingCrawling pages using a Yandex Metrica tag
Yandex can discover pages through the Metrica analytics tag rather than only through links and sitemaps. There is no Google…
IndexingCrawl rate
Crawl rate is the number of requests per second the robot makes to your site. It is set automatically by…
Site move, alternate site addressesPrimary and alternate site addresses
Mirrors are the Yandex concept with no Google equivalent, and misunderstanding them causes more wasted work than anything else in…
Site move, alternate site addressesMoving a site to a new domain name
Moving to a new domain in Yandex means grouping the old and new addresses and making the new one primary.…
Site move, alternate site addressesMoving a website to an address with the www prefix and back
Yandex treats example.com and www.example.com as different websites — and, combined with protocol, one domain can present four distinct addresses.…
Site move, alternate site addressesSwitching a site to HTTPS
Switching to HTTPS changes the site’s address as far as Yandex is concerned, so it follows the mirror procedure rather…
Site move, alternate site addressesHow do I leave the HTTP version of the site available?
When a site answers on both HTTP and HTTPS, Yandex will normally make the HTTPS address primary and show it…
Site move, alternate site addressesHow to make HTTP and HTTPS versions of the site available
A narrow but consequential case: a visitor’s device cannot open the HTTPS version of a site — Yandex’s own example…
Site move, alternate site addressesSetup instructions for popular site platforms
Every address change in Yandex — new domain, adding or removing www, moving to HTTPS — comes down to the…
Site move, alternate site addressesUngrouping sites
Ungrouping is the reverse of the mirror procedure: separating addresses Yandex has grouped so they can rank independently again. It…