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 addresses
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…