Yandex Webmaster
Yandex Webmaster helps site owners examine indexing, search visibility, and technical condition in Yandex Search.
What Yandex Webmaster is
Yandex Webmaster helps site owners examine indexing, search visibility, and technical condition in Yandex Search. Its analytics reports query positions, impressions, clicks, and click-through rate. Users can review crawler visits, submit changed pages for reindexing, and notify Yandex about Sitemap updates. Daily checks report errors and recommendations, while security tools show detected threats, search violations, and restrictions. Technical checks cover robots.txt, Sitemap files, HTTP responses, structured data, mobile compatibility, and whether an IP belongs to Yandex indexing bots. Site owners can link a Yandex Metrica tag, subject to approval by an authorized user of that service. Only sites with their own domain can be added, and ownership must be verified to access confidential indexing data. Verification options include a meta tag, DNS TXT record, HTML file, or supported site-builder instructions. API access requires a Yandex OAuth client ID and partner agreement. The plan is free. On October 12, 2026, the product homepage said the service was temporarily unavailable while engineers worked to restore it.
Good
- Reports search positions, impressions, clicks, and click-through rate
- Daily diagnostics identify errors and recommendations
- Supports multiple ownership verification methods
- Includes API access
Watch out
- Only sites with their own domain can be added
- API requires an OAuth client ID and partner agreement
- Homepage stated the service was temporarily unavailable
Who it suits
It suits owners of custom-domain websites who need to monitor indexing and technical issues in Yandex Search. API users must meet the stated access requirements.
Verdict
Yandex Webmaster offers indexing, search, security, and technical diagnostics for eligible sites. Its stated temporary unavailability and API prerequisites are important access considerations.
Plans and prices
From Yandex Webmaster's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Yandex Webmaster | Free | Site owners can add and manage sites after verifying ownership |
The facts
Each one read from Yandex Webmaster's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Access control
- Site management rights must be verified to access confidential site indexing data, and owners can assign roles to other users.checked 12 Oct 2026
- API
- The Webmaster API provides site data and is accessed over HTTPS; API use requires a Yandex OAuth client ID and a partner agreement with Yandex.checked 12 Oct 2026
- API access
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Availability
- On October 12, 2026, the product homepage stated that the service was temporarily unavailable while engineers worked to restore it.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Backlink analysis
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Competitor research
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Diagnostics
- The service checks sites daily and reports errors and recommendations for improving visibility in Yandex Search.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Eligibility limit
- Only sites with their own domain can be added to Yandex Webmaster.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Indexing tools
- Users can check crawler visits, submit updated pages for reindexing, and notify Yandex about Sitemap updates.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integration
- Users can link a Yandex Metrica tag with a site in Yandex Webmaster through a request that the other service's authorized user approves.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Keyword research
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- Helps site owners track and analyze page indexing, search ranking, and technical condition in Yandex Search.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Rank tracking
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Review limit
- After a restriction review, another review request may require a 30-day wait if the restriction remains.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Search analytics
- Shows search query positions, impressions, clicks, and click-through rate.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security
- Users can view detected security threats and search violations, see restrictions, and submit fixes for review.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Site audit
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Support
- The help page directs users with questions to a support form that routes the request to the appropriate specialist.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Technical tools
- Tools check robots.txt, Sitemap files, HTTP responses, structured data, mobile compatibility, and whether an IP belongs to Yandex indexing bots.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Tracked keywords
- 1000checked 21 Sep 2026
- Verification methods
- Ownership can be verified using a meta tag, a DNS TXT record, an HTML file, or supported site-builder instructions.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
The company
- Maker
- Yandex describes itself as a technology company building machine-learning-powered products and says the company appeared in 2000.checked 12 Oct 2026
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