YandexBot
by Yandex
Search engine UA + reverse DNS
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
User-Agent tokens
yandexbot robots.txt stanza
User-agent: YandexBot How it's verified
Reverse DNS suffixes
.yandex.ru.yandex.net.yandex.com Sources
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