Счастли́вого Рождества́, дороги́е чита́тели! 2020 has been an interesting year, and on January 1st 2020 when I opened this site up for indexing from all the search engines, I certainly couldn’t have predicted what was to happen in the months ...

Third-party SERP volatility tools are indicating a potential algorithm update on December 16th coming to visible fruition, which would tie in with the timeline for other previous non-IKS updates. Previous Updates Potential ICS Update November 13 2020 Webmasters Report Ranking ...

85% of Russians are going to spend the New Year at home, according to a survey conducted by Yandex.Travel service . The main reasons are the lack of funds (34% of the respondents answered this way) and the habit of ...

Moscow users of Yandex.Market can now receive their online order “on click” in 15 minutes, and also add products from Yandex.Lavka to it. The market became the first service that began testing a new logistics solution from Yandex Go. Now ...

When you’re looking through Russian search marketing forums or blogs, oftentimes you’ll come across the name Yasha (Яша). Yasha is in a broad sense a slang name for the Yandex search engine, and in a narrow sense – Yandex.Catalog, from ...

Yandex.Zen presented an updated list of rules for the use of product widgets in reviews and articles. The most important rule is that the review should be useful to the audience. This means that an article or video with a ...

The Yandex.Zen platform has introduced changes to the rules for formatting articles. They will make the design of the texts more accurate – the articles will not be overloaded with unnecessary elements and will become more easy to read. Some ...

Utilizing data collected by the app, Yandex.Maps will now start to show how busy/congested the Moscow Metro stations are — allowing passengers to plan their journeys better, and avoid congestion and busy stations, especially during times of social distancing. The ...

A full-fledged navigation for motorists has appeared in the Yandex.Maps application. They no longer need to switch to Navigator to use its basic functions. Yandex.Maps will provide voice prompts during the trip – about cameras, speed limits, traffic jams, overlaps ...

In a talk by Elena Pershina, head of B2B Marketing for Non-Advertising services at Yandex, the search engine gave some insight into how webmasters can establish a “quality” website. Elena began her talk by noting that the website and business, ...