YandexBot
Yandex's search engine.
- Operator
- Yandex
- Type
- Search engine
- In the user agent
YandexBot- robots.txt token
YandexBot,Yandex- Follows robots.txt
- says it follows robots.txt
- Official documentation
- yandex.com
- Checked on
- 2026-11-11
What is YandexBot?
YandexBot is Yandex's search engine. It indexes pages for a search engine, whose results also feed AI answers.
The operator's description: Yandex's main search indexing robot.
(yandex.com)
How do I block or allow YandexBot?
With robots.txt, using the token YandexBot, Yandex. Yandex says it follows robots.txt. To block the whole site:
User-agent: YandexBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /To allow it, use Allow instead of Disallow. Before blocking, weigh what it brings: without it, the assistant cannot find your pages to cite or recommend them.
How do I see whether YandexBot visits my site?
In your server or CDN access logs, look for YandexBot in the user agent. Google Analytics does not show these visits: agents do not run its JavaScript.
Anyone can copy the name in a user agent, so counting log lines is not enough. Knocklog reads your site's traffic on any host, confirms who is who, and shows how often YandexBot came, which pages it read and what that brought you.
How do I know it is really YandexBot?
The IP's reverse DNS, confirmed forward and back, must end in .yandex.ru or .yandex.net or .yandex.com.
Knocklog runs this check on every visit and separates the genuine agent from impostors.
Does YandexBot visit your site?
See in seconds how your site treats AI agents. Then connect your traffic to learn who really came.
Other Yandex agents
- YandexAdditional AI search crawler
- YandexImages Search engine
- YaDirectFetcher Ads checker