How to Register Your Site With Yandex

When concerning search engines, Yandex is one that most people haven't heard of, yet it is the leading one in Eastern Europe. Learn how to submit your site's XML sitemap to Yandex in this article.

Updated: 14 Dec, 21 by Antoniy Yushkevych 3 Min

Google is an undisputed champion when it comes to search engines, holding a vast 90% of the market share. Despite its popularity, it is not the only search engine available and millions prefer to use other search engines as their go-to internet surfing tools. One such engine is Yandex. It is the leading web search engine in Easter Europe, generating more than 50% of all search traffic in the region.

With more than one and a half billion websites on the internet, search engine optimization is more crucial than ever to your site’s success. You might have a very well-optimized site, yet if it is not successfully crawled by the search engine spiders, all that effort would simply go to waste. Although web spiders are constantly improving their crawling methods, we still recommend to manually submit your website to all the major search engines for indexing. It may not affect your rankings or it may greatly boost them, either way, there are no downsides to doing so.

Why would one submit their site to search engines? Well, there are a few cases when it is almost necessary to provide updated information on your site to the search engines and they are:

  • Launching a brand new site: when a new site is launched, it may take days, maybe weeks for the crawlers to find it. Submitting the site manually might lead to your site being crawled sooner. It is important to note that it may not always be the case.
  • Notably updating a page: When a page’s content has been changed substantially, submitting it to the search engine could make the page be re-indexed sooner. It is generally better than waiting for the next scheduled visit from the crawlers, which could take up to six weeks.
  • Incomplete indexing: there are some pages on your site that for some reason were not indexed. You can manually submit the page.

Now that you know when to register your site with search engines, let us tell you how. This tutorial is written for Yandex.

  • Register with Yandex Webmaster Tools.
  • Once complete, go to http://webmaster.yandex.com/sites/ and click on “Add Site” button.
  • Input your domain into the respective field and click the “Add” button.
  • You will now have to prove ownership of the site. We suggest doing so by embedding the meta tag Yandex provides you with. Copy the tag.

  • Paste the meta tag into the header section of your website in your Web Hosting account.
  • Back in the Webmaster tools, click on the “check” button.

  • Now proceed to “Indexing Options” and go to the “Sitemap files” submenu. In the newly open field, enter the location of your sitemap file and click “Add”.

Now your sitemap has been submitted to Yandex and just like in Google or Bing Webmaster tools, you can see the status of your sitemap file.

Antoniy Yushkevych

Antoniy Yushkevych

Master of word when it comes to technology, internet and privacy. I'm also your usual guy that always aims for the best result and takes a skateboard to work. If you need me, you will find me at the office's Counter-Strike championships on Fridays or at a.yushkevych@monovm.com
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Ava Daniel

2024, Jul, 24

Great guide on registering your site with Yandex! Although Google dominates, it's smart to diversify and ensure your site is indexed on other search engines like Yandex, especially if you have an audience in Eastern Europe. Detailed and practical, this tutorial makes the process clear and easy to follow. Thanks for sharing this valuable information!

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Dr. Joy Legros

2024, Oct, 24

This post provides a wealth of valuable insights on leveraging search engines beyond Google! It's fascinating to see Yandex's prominence in Eastern Europe and the importance of search engine optimization. The step-by-step instructions on indexing via Yandex Webmaster Tools are incredibly useful for ensuring new and updated content is recognized swiftly. The advice to manually submit sites ensures nothing gets missed, making it crucial information for anyone serious about optimizing their web presence.