In a small change made to Yandex’s Webmaster Help documentation, they have removed the previously supported (although not recommended) verification method of verifying site rights. If this is a method that you’ve previously used, you may find verification issues in ...

The Yandex search team have updated their Webmaster support documentation around checking server response codes. This document is nested in the indexing options area of YWMT. SSL Certificate Status The notable change to the documentation is the inclusion of a ...

Yandex have updated their webmaster documentation around how webmasters can report problems. The URL (/support/webmaster/troubleshooting.html) has been expanded to include more details, including a snippet asking for feedback around new functionality within Webmaster tools. I have a suggestion Choose a ...

Yandex says it doesn’t use keyword density as part of it’s ranking algorithm. The company says it looks at the quality of a web page and makes an assessment based on that instead. Below is a statement from Yandex: The ...

In a recent Webmaster blog, Yandex have detailed improvements within Yandex Webmaster Tools for content websites in diagnosing issues with their Turbo pages. For Turbo pages to be useful to users, it is important to maintain the quality of the ...

From March 1st 2021, the marketplace will no longer have exclusions for which goods were not hidden due to the high price. Market will begin to withdraw any product from sale, if its price exceeds the market median by 20% ...

In an article by Evgeniya Evseeva on VC.RU, the details of a conversation with Tigran Khudaverdyan, and the highlights we can take from it. On the call, Khudaverdyan discussed Plus as a product, and disclosed that: “Plus” is one of ...

Since the beginning of 2013, Yandex has been working on an algorithm that detects spammy links and distinguishes them from organic links. The goal of this algorithm is to help users differentiate between quality and “artificial” websites, and to find ...

In what has been a volatile couple of weeks (in terms of SERP fluctuations), third-party tools and webmasters have come to the consensus that there was a high enough % of change to determine an unconfirmed Yandex algorithm update on ...

Yandex’s consolidated revenue in 2020 increased by 24% compared to 2019, to RUB 218.3 billion. At the same time, net profit amounted to 24.1 billion rubles and increased by 116%. Net profit margin – 11.1%. Adjusted net income amounted to ...