YandexDirectDyn
AdvertisingVerify YandexDirectDyn IP Address
Verify if an IP address truly belongs to Yandex, using official verification methods. Enter both IP address and User-Agent from your logs for the most accurate bot verification.
YandexDirectDyn is a Yandex crawler used for dynamic ad processing within the Yandex.Direct advertising platform. It fetches landing pages to analyze content, structure, and product or service details used in dynamically generated ads. The bot helps Yandex automatically create and update ad creatives based on page content, pricing, and availability. It performs targeted, ad-specific fetches rather than broad crawling. Blocking it may limit dynamic ad generation or affect campaign performance. Crawl activity is low-volume and triggered by dynamic ad setups, feed updates, or automated optimization cycles within Yandex.Direct. It ignores the global robots.txt user agent (*) rule. RobotSense.io verifies YandexDirectDyn using Yandex’s official validation methods, ensuring only genuine YandexDirectDyn traffic is identified.
User Agent Examples
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexDirectDyn/1.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)Robots.txt Configuration for YandexDirectDyn
YandexDirectDynUse this identifier in your robots.txt User-agent directive to target YandexDirectDyn.
Recommended Configuration
Our recommended robots.txt configuration for YandexDirectDyn:
User-agent: YandexDirectDyn
Allow: /Completely Block YandexDirectDyn
Prevent this bot from crawling your entire site:
User-agent: YandexDirectDyn
Disallow: /Completely Allow YandexDirectDyn
Allow this bot to crawl your entire site:
User-agent: YandexDirectDyn
Allow: /Block Specific Paths
Block this bot from specific directories or pages:
User-agent: YandexDirectDyn
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/Allow Only Specific Paths
Block everything but allow specific directories:
User-agent: YandexDirectDyn
Disallow: /
Allow: /public/
Allow: /blog/Set Crawl Delay
Limit how frequently YandexDirectDyn can request pages (in seconds):
User-agent: YandexDirectDyn
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 10Note: This bot does not officially mention about honoring Crawl-Delay rule.
Put these rules to work
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