Supported schemas from SchemaorgStudent papers
Yandex supports structured snippets for student paper sites, marked up with the CreativeWork schema; the older XML feed route is…
Supported schemas from Schemaorg
Recipes
Recipe markup is a Yandex partner programme: data is displayed only after Yandex’s quality control service has checked it. Valid…
Supported schemas from SchemaorgProduct information
Product markup is what produces a price-bearing snippet in Yandex results. It needs two schemas working together: Product plus either…
Supported schemas from SchemaorgStrict microdata—Products
Strict microdata gives page markup priority over other data sources Yandex holds about the same products. Why it exists Yandex…
Supported schemas from SchemaorgStrict microdata—Catalogs
The catalogue equivalent of strict microdata: declaring category and listing data as authoritative. Where it helps Large catalogues where Yandex…
Supported schemas from SchemaorgMovies
Film markup uses schema.org/Movie and feeds Yandex’s film snippets. Every field is recommended rather than required, but one has a…
Semantic page markupMicroformats
Microformats are the older semantic markup approach for (X)HTML: meaning is added through class attributes on existing elements rather than…
MicroformatshCard microformat
hCard is a microformat for publishing contact details in a structured way, based on the vCard standard. Yandex reads it…
hCard microformatDescription of the elements processed by Yandex
Yandex requires specific hCard elements to be present and correctly nested before it will process an organisation card. The mandatory…
hCard microformatMarkup processing rules
Yandex processes organisation markup alongside data submitted through the Site geography form in Yandex Webmaster, and the two should agree.…
hCard microformatFAQ about hCard
Common questions about hCard processing: how long until data appears, why a card was not accepted, how updates propagate. The…
MicroformatsThe hRecipe microformat
hRecipe is a microformat for culinary recipes that Yandex reads to build recipe snippets. What it covers Ingredients, quantities, preparation…
The hRecipe microformatElements description
Yandex documents exactly which hRecipe elements it extracts and the structural rules a page must follow. The rules that catch…
MicroformatsQuestions and answers
The recurring questions about microformats have short answers, and the shortest ones are the most useful. Which microformats does Yandex…
Yandex WebmasterInformers
Informers are small widgets that display site statistics — traffic from Yandex Metrica, or indexing and query data from Yandex…
Indexing errors reference
Indexing errors divide into two stages, and knowing which stage failed tells you who has to fix it. Download errors…
DirectoriesHTTP status codes reference
Yandex publishes not just what each status code means but when to use it, and several of those recommendations differ…
DirectoriesRobots.txt parsing errors
The console’s robots.txt analyser reports errors and warnings, several of which are Yandex extensions — rules the file may break…
DirectoriesSitemap errors reference
The sitemap error reference splits into two groups: failures to fetch the file, and failures to parse it. The distinction…
Yandex WebmasterSupport service
Yandex support handles cases the console cannot explain: pages that stay out of search with no stated reason, regional assignment…