Recently I wrote a post about how IDN TLDs are processed by Google and Yandex, and this led to questions being sent in asking around Cyrillic usage in other site elements, such as URLs, XML Sitemaps and the Robots.txt file. ...
Short Answer: Yes, Yandex does acknowledge and respect the rel=”nofollow” link attribute, and has done since 2010. It is also a reason as to why some links may not be displayed within the External Links section of YWMT, and is ...
Yandex’s relationship with links has been, in my opinion, a lot more public than the relationship between Google and links. Yandex’s relationship with links can be best explored through three key events: 2005 Nepot Filter 2013/14 Ranking Without Links 2015 ...
When working on an SEO campaign, clients asking for forecasts and projections is commonplace – and whilst we’re at the whims of the search engines and can’t make any guarantees, we all know as much as we’re willing to be ...
Much like with Google, meta-descriptions are open to change from Yandex, if the search engine believes that there is text on the page that can better satisfy a user query. There is no data to correlate and/or qualify that they ...
Yandex.Lavka service is testing express delivery of products at night. Nine points of the Lavka in Moscow and the Moscow region have already switched to round-the-clock operation. Their delivery area is home to 3 million people. By the end of ...
Pagination can oftentimes be the cause of a number of SEO headaches, especially if not factored into a web build properly. Common pagination issues (in relation to SEO) include, but are not limited to: Index bloat Content duplication Indexing issues ...
Similar to YouTube cards and annotations, authors on the Yandex Zen platform can now add “links” to their videos. Thanks to the new feature, you can: make a series of several videos on similar topics. Then the videos will be joined ...
Yandex.Webmaster will soon start posting on its blog and Zen channel collections of articles and materials intended for webmasters. Articles will include news about working with sites, articles on their optimization, selection of resources for automating work. Everyone can offer ...
Short answer: Yes, Google can. In May 2020, John Mueller clarified that: IDN TLDs should be fine, they’ve been around for a number of years now. IDN stands for Internationalized Domain Name, and there are a number of variants including ...