Yandex Webmaster changes more often than most consoles, and the change log is the fastest way to learn that a tool you rely on now behaves differently or that a new one has appeared.
Why it is worth watching
- New tools frequently arrive without announcement elsewhere, such as GET parameter configuration or query grouping.
- Reports change their basis quietly; a metric that shifts on a specific date is usually a definition change rather than a ranking event.
- Deprecations are listed here before they take effect.
How to use it
Read it when a number moves without an obvious cause. Matching the date of the change to the date in your report answers the question faster than any analysis.
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How we apply this
When a client’s Yandex report shows a step change on a single day, we check this page before we investigate the site. More than once the “drop” was a reporting change and the site had not moved at all.
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