Robots Txt for Yandex

Learn how to set up Robots txt for Yandex using an example, and make sure your website content is indexed correctly by search engines.

Yandex Robots.txt

Yandex is a Russian search engine which requires its own specific set of instructions for robots.txt. This is a text file that tells web robots, such as search engine crawlers, which pages on your website to crawl and index. If a page isn't in the robots.txt file, then it is assumed that search engine crawlers can access and index it.

Here is an example of a robots.txt file for Yandex. This example is written in a format that Yandex understands, and tells it which pages to index and which pages to ignore:

User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /test/
Allow: /

Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap.xml

In this example, the User-agent line tells Yandex to crawl the website. The Disallow lines tell Yandex not to crawl the private and test directories. The Allow line tells Yandex to crawl all other pages. The Sitemap line tells Yandex the location of the website's sitemap.

It is important to note that Yandex has its own set of rules and guidelines for robots.txt. Therefore, it is a good idea to consult the Yandex robots.txt documentation before writing a robots.txt file for Yandex.