YandexBot

YandexBot is Yandex’s primary web crawler, responsible for discovering, fetching, and indexing content for Yandex Search. It crawls pages to analyze text, links, metadata, structured data, and media assets. Crawl frequency depends on site popularity, update cadence, and internal Yandex signals. YandexBot supports multiple verticals, including images, videos, and news, through specialized variants. Its role is comparable to Googlebot or Bingbot - keeping Yandex’s search index fresh, accurate, and aligned with user queries across Yandex’s ecosystem. YandexBot also has a specialized mode called MirrorDetector that is used to determine the site's alternate addresses across the web. It likely fetches page content, structure, and metadata to compare similarities between domains and identify sites that replicate content with minimal variation. This analysis likely helps Yandex combat content duplication, mirror networks, and abusive SEO practices. This mode is not used for general search indexing and does not surface content directly in search results. Crawl activity with this mode is targeted and investigative, focusing on suspected duplicates rather than comprehensive site-wide crawling. RobotSense.io verifies YandexBot using Yandex’s official validation methods, ensuring only genuine YandexBot traffic is identified.