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title: "What is YandexBot? Yandex's Bot Explained | Kitbase"
description: "Yandex's crawler for its search index. How to identify and verify it, and what its traffic means for your site."
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# 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`

Free tools

[Verify a YandexBot request](/tools/bot-verifier?ua=yandexbot) [Check if your site allows YandexBot](/tools/ai-crawler-access-checker)

## How it's verified

Reverse DNS suffixes

`.yandex.ru``.yandex.net``.yandex.com`

[Yandex's page for YandexBot](https://yandex.com/support/webmaster/robot-workings/check-yandex-robots.html)

## Sources

-   [Yandex robot verification](https://yandex.com/support/webmaster/robot-workings/check-yandex-robots.html)

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## See if YandexBot has visited your site

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