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…
Site move, alternate site addresses
SitelinksSitelinks
Sitelinks are the additional links Yandex places under a result to help users reach a section directly. They are generated…
SitelinksViewing and editing sitelinks
The generated sitelinks for a site are listed under Display in the search → SERP links. Unlike Google, Yandex both…
View in search resultsSite region
Regionality in Yandex is an explicit site attribute, not something inferred from hosting or language. For location-dependent queries — Yandex’s…
Broken links
Broken links waste crawl budget, strand users, and leak the value of incoming links. Yandex Webmaster separates them into three…
Internal
The Internal links report lists broken links inside your own site — links Yandex followed and found leading nowhere. These…
Broken linksExternal
The External links report shows links pointing at your site from elsewhere that now lead to an error. Every one…
Clicks on broken links
Clicks on broken links shows the links that real users actually followed into an error, based on anonymised Yandex Browser…
Working with Yandex WebmasterTools
The console’s tools work on any site, though limits are lower without verified ownership. Each replaces an assumption with a…
Robots.txt analysis
The robots.txt analyser does three jobs: validate the file, test specific URLs against it, and keep a change history. The…
ToolsSitemap validator
The sitemap validator checks a file against Yandex’s requirements before you commit to it. It accepts input three ways: pasted…
ToolsServer response check
The server response check is the most-used diagnostic in the console, because it shows what the robot receives rather than…
ToolsXML validator
The XML validator checks a feed against its XSD schema — syntax, structure, content model and data types — for…
ToolsStructured data validator
The structured data validator checks the markup Yandex reads: Schema.org, microformats, Open Graph and HTML microdata. What it tells you…
ToolsIP address check
The IP address check tells you whether an IPv4 address belongs to Yandex. It is the quick counterpart to a…
ToolsChecking for a certificate
Yandex checks the SSL/TLS certificate on the site and reports problems, including chain and validity issues that browsers may tolerate…
ToolsTool usage limits
Yandex Webmaster tools work without adding a site, but with lower limits. Verified ownership raises the quotas. What changes with…
Tips for using Yandex Webmaster
A collection of interface conveniences: theme switching, table configuration, data export, and keyboard shortcuts inside Yandex Webmaster. The ones worth…
Working with Yandex WebmasterTerms and definitions
Yandex uses several terms differently from the way they are used in English-language SEO, and a few have no Google…