How to Manage Website Indexing on Yandex Search Engine Using Robots.txt
Yandex search engine using robots.txt is an essential aspect of optimizing your site for search visibility and performance. The robots.txt file allows you to control which pages and directories search engine bots can access, ensuring that only relevant content is indexed.
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| How to Manage Website Indexing on Yandex Search Engine Using Robots.txt |
Yandex supports advanced directives like Disallow, Allow, Crawl-delay, and Clean-param, enabling precise management of crawling behavior. Additionally, you can use the Sitemap directive to guide Yandex bots to your site's sitemap for efficient indexing.
By properly configuring your robots.txt file, you can reduce server load, improve website performance, and maintain control over your site's search presence.
# Specify directives for all robots
User-agent: *
Disallow: /bin/ # Prevent access to the shopping cart directory
Disallow: /search/ # Prevent access to the search results pages
Disallow: /admin/ # Prevent access to admin panel
Disallow: /private/ # Restrict access to private resources
Disallow: /tmp/ # Restrict access to temporary files or folders
Allow: /public/ # Explicitly allow access to the public folder
Allow: /images/ # Allow indexing of image directory
Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap.xml # Specify sitemap location
Clean-param: ref /content/ # Inform robots to ignore specific parameters in indexing
User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /test/
Crawl-delay: 5 # Set crawl delay for Yandex robot
Sitemap: http://example.com/yandex_sitemap.xml
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /old-data/ # Prevent access to outdated content
Disallow: /archive/ # Prevent access to archived pages
Allow: /latest-updates/ # Explicitly allow indexing of recent updates
Sitemap: http://example.com/google_sitemap.xml
# Specify directives for Bingbot
User-agent: Bingbot
Disallow: /logs/ # Prevent access to server logs
Disallow: /debug/ # Restrict access to debugging tools
Allow: /new-releases/ # Allow indexing of new releases section
Crawl-delay: 10 # Set crawl delay for Bingbot
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap.xml
# Redirect robots.txt from old domain to a new one
# Example: Redirects are only applicable if properly configured on the server
# If this robots.txt is for http://oldexample.com, it could point to:
# Sitemap: http://newexample.com/sitemap.xml
# Block specific bots (examples)
User-agent: BadBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SpamBot
Disallow: /
# Notes:
# - Added more directives for common robots, such as Googlebot and Bingbot.
# - Demonstrated redirecting robots.txt to another domain.
# - Included examples of blocking specific bots (BadBot and SpamBot).
# - Improved comment clarity to help understand each directive.
# - Ensure noindex meta tags in HTML code are used for critical pages instead of Disallow if removal from search results is required.
# - All directives and file paths are case-sensitive.
# - URLs should be encoded as per the site encoding, e.g., Punycode for domain names or UTF-8 encoding for paths.
