Yandex · Search indexes

YandexBot

Yandex's main indexing robot, which builds the Yandex search index. Blocking it removes your pages from Yandex search.

robots.txt name: YandexBot
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)
Category: Search indexes: Crawl the web to build the index of a search engine or AI search.
Follows robots.txt: Yes
Official documentation: https://yandex.com/support/webmaster/en/robot-workings/check-yandex-robots

Checked against the official documentation on October 17, 2026.

Block or allow it in robots.txt

Add these lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. To block it everywhere:

User-agent: YandexBot
Disallow: /

To allow it everywhere except one folder:

User-agent: YandexBot
Disallow: /private/

Is it really this bot?

Anyone can copy a user agent, and Yandex does not publish IP ranges for this bot. A reverse DNS lookup of the IP address may help; check the official documentation.

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