Between February and June 2020, Yandex algorithm monitoring tools have shown extremely high levels of volatility across the majority of verticals. For context, throughout the entirety of 2019 algorithm volatility tools recorded a score of 10/10 twice, whereas in 2020 ...

With increased IT infrastructure spending forecast across multiple regions, and with the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) to promote protection for Russian start-ups and a better-regulated technology market, the Russian financial sector (both personal and for businesses) is set to see ...

If it wasn’t obvious from the increased resources, features, and blogger… “encouragement” programs that Yandex’s Zen team have been rolling out in recent weeks – Zen right now has the potential to become a very potent part of any marketing ...

A new bill has been introduced in the State Duma proposing the introduction of fines for webmasters, and legal entities responsible for websites, who refuse to remove and delete content at the request of the law. Developed by United Russia ...

A messenger has appeared in Yandex.Zen. Now you can communicate with Zen authors not only in the comments: any Zen user will be able to write private messages to them – with the consent of the Zen author. Zen announced this ...

Yandex turbo pages are accelerated mobile pages that allow users to download content almost instantly even with slow and poor internet connections. They can be compared to Google’s AMP project and Baidu MIP. On mobile Yandex SERPs, they can be ...

Over the past year, Russian online retail has seen a decline in the popularity of cross-border sites in favor of domestic ones. This is evidenced by the results of the study “Consumer Index of Ivanov” from Sberbank CIB on July 13. ...

Now entering a beta phase, Yandex.Vzglyad (Взгляд = Va-z-gli-arr-d), will allow webmasters to conduct user polls, view heatmaps, and conduct UX tests. Vzglyad translating into English as “sight”. Similar to other heatmap software, Взгляд will allow webmasters to identify user ...

Setting up Turbo Pages on any website is relatively straightforward and, depending on your stack, you shouldn’t need any help from a developer or senior Webmaster within your organization. Step 1 Log in to your Yandex.Webmaster account and “add a ...

Mail.ru has launched the myfuture.mail.ru service specifically for the event of graduation. The aim of the service is to allow each graduate to write a letter to their future selves. Exactly a year after you submit your letter, you’ll have ...