Via their official VK page, Yandex has shared data from their travel sector product, Yandex.Travels. The study compiles a rating of cities and resorts that are popular with Russians in the New Year holidays. To do this, they studied tourist ...
According to Nielsen Russia data on FMCG e-commerce segment growth in 2019, the volume of sales in monetary terms almost doubled in 2019. Like most markets, Russia is seeing a great shift to online versus the traditional brick-and-mortar shops, which by ...
From a recent Q&A that I conducted with the Yandex search team, I asked the question around the use of Cyrillic characters in URI strings, and if there is any benefit in terms of rankings or crawlability, given that Yandex ...
This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something we may earn a commission. In a recent interview that I conducted with the Yandex search team, they revealed that they had been testing the crawling and ...
Yandex has announced the Vega update, a significant update containing more than 1,500 improvements. One of the more prominent changes is the introduction of human expert feedback into the algorithm, to improve its learning. The update has also allowed Yandex ...
Through the December 2019 update, Yandex has been able to almost double to size of their index whilst also improving the speed and accuracy of delivery. Initially rumored to be near 200-billion documents, the number of items in the index ...
As part of the Vega update, Yandex introduced Yandex.Q, a new question-and-answer service. Yandex.Q makes use of the Yandex.Experts tool, which was introduced in the 2018 Andromeda update, and TheQuestion, a Q&A forum acquired by Yandex in early 2019 to ...
We’re nearing the end of a decade, and over the past 10 years, there has been a huge leap in web technology and user accessibility. The number of Internet users has more than doubled, and the share of mobile traffic ...
In a webmaster blog post today, Yandex has announced that broken links can now be downloaded from Yandex Webmaster Tools so that Webmasters can better manage the process of repairing them. To work effectively with optimizing your site, you must ...