YandexBot
by Yandex
Crawls pages for a traditional search index, which is what lets them rank.
Yandex's crawler for its search index.
What it usually means
Yandex is crawling this page for its search index, which matters most for Russian-language and CIS traffic.
How to identify it
yandexbot User-agent: YandexBot How it's verified
.yandex.ru.yandex.net.yandex.com Sources
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