Oftentimes when we optimize and promote client websites on the RuNet, we do so from a linear perspective and don’t take into account how Russian users spend their time online. We look at the direct competition to our clients, and ...

Yandex Translate not only offers a direct translation of the text you enter, but also a number of examples of your phrase in use – with modifications based on context and situation. However, this service – like all things – ...

TLDR The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia issued an order to Yandex to stop providing advantages to its services in search. The FAS have also told Yandex they need to publish documentation for the terms of service access to ...

Yandex Browser now restricts the transmission of your cookies to third-party trackers by default. This means that sites that you have not visited will not be able to receive and use your data to their advantage, including for annoying calls ...

Yandex.Travel have conducted a survey, with more than 10,000 respondents, to gauge the thoughts, feelings, and expectancies of Russian tourists with regards to current travel restrictions, and where they plan on going (on holiday) when able to. International Travel From ...

Yandex is Russia’s largest search engine. It has a reputation for high quality search results, and recently, it has started to publish guidelines on what makes a web page ‘low quality’. What Yandex Says… Facts Are Key It says that ...

Over the past couple of days Yandex have made a number of updates to their support documentation, some more comprehensive than others. The following article summarises some of the smaller changes, and provides links to other articles we have published ...

As well as some changes to the page meta, the refreshed article contains an FAQ section dedicated to HTTP/2 version support, with the key takeway being: If you use HTTP/2, the Yandex robot indexes your site using the HTTP/1.1 protocol. However, ...

Third-party tracking tools have recorded above average position changes across multiple Yandex regions over the previous week, although none of the data shifts have been substantial enough to warrant a rumoured update (based on historical data). The Yandex search forums ...

In a small change made to Yandex’s Webmaster Help documentation, they have removed the previously supported (although not recommended) verification method of verifying site rights. If this is a method that you’ve previously used, you may find verification issues in ...