More than 30 thousand Internet resources with negative content for young people have been blocked since the beginning of this year in Russia according to the materials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Acting Deputy Head of the Department of ...

In June 2020 Yandex published research in which analysts investigated what and how Russians purchased items during the enforced self-isolation period, and how the coronavirus has changed their consumer habits, and what the road ahead looks like for businesses and ...

Potentially in response to the changing face of the Russian economy,  the Yandex team have unveiled (via press release) a new all-in-one platform titled .Pro to help connect vendors and buyers. Yandex.Pro is a marketplace that connects freelancers looking to ...

Through force, customer expectations have evolved and changed – and these heightened levels of customer service, product fulfilment, and accessibility will be expected to be maintained when the world goes back to some form of normal. Research conducted by Accenture, ...

Yandex.Maps has implemented a new feature, giving users the ability to publish pictures of pedestrian routes. Now anyone can take a walk route and upload it to Yandex.Maps. This is useful for people with limited mobility, parents with strollers, cyclists ...

The Corona pandemic has impact user behaviour no end, and now research from bodies such as Yandex.Checkout and Accenture indicates that the consumer shift from offline to online might not be a short term behavioural trend. In a new study ...

In a recent update to the Webmaster support pages for XML sitemaps, Yandex have introduced a line talking about “localized pages”, which under further investigation it’s new declared support for Hreflang tags in the XML format. Previously, Yandex had only ...

Today, the Yandex webmaster support team have updated their documentation page advising webmasters on how to use the XML sitemap file to assist Yandexbot in discovering and indexing URLs. A TLDR of the changes are: The introduction of an FAQ ...

Yandex.Zen now has thematic channels that collect the best publications of the platform’s bloggers. To get into such a channel, a blogger needs to take part in a challenge. Channels with challenges will be additionally promoted in the feed and will ...

At the start of August, rank tracking and SERP volatility tools picked up a period of high activity, with July 28th being at the centre of the unrest. This comes after months high activity and ranking shifts, presumably related to ...