Do you want to connect your website to Yandex webmaster tools? Webmaster tools like Google Search Engine Console and Bing Webmaster help you optimize your site, monitor traffic, manage robots.txt file, check site for errors, and more. In this article, we will share how to add your WordPress site to Yandex webmaster tools to monitor your search engine traffic.
Yandex is a popular search engine like Google and Bing based in Russia. You can optimize your site for SEO on Yandex to get more visitors from Russia.
Yandex has a range of tools like general search engine, image search, email, videos, maps and more. It also has webmaster tools to help you rank your site, monitor traffic stats, search queries, keywords, and more.
You can connect your WordPress site with Yandex using the Yoast SEO plugin. It works similar to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.
Before you begin, you will need a Yandex Webmaster Tools account to connect to your site. Once you've created your account, you can log in to your WordPress site to set up Yandex webmaster tools with the Yoast SEO plugin.
Let's take a look at how you can add your site to Yandex webmaster tools and start optimizing it right away.
The first thing you need to do is log in to your Yandex Webmaster Tools account. If you don't have a Yandex account, you can create one using this link.
After creating the account, you will see the Yandex webmaster page. On this page, you need to click '+ 'in the top bar to add your site to Yandex.
In the site address field, you need to add the full domain name of your website and click Add button.
Note: If your primary domain uses 'www' in the URL, you must add it before the domain (eg www.wpbeginner.com)
On the next page, you will be asked to verify website ownership by adding meta content to your WordPress site. Go ahead and copy the content code from this page because you'll need it in Step 2.
Now you need to login to your WordPress admin area and add the verification code in Yoast SEO webmaster settings.
Simply go to the SEO »General area and click the Webmaster Tools tab.
Next, you need to paste the code into the Yandex verification code field and click Save changes button.
After adding the code to your WordPress site, you need to go back to the Yandex Webmaster Tools page from where you copied the code and click Check button to verify ownership.
After successful verification, it will display your username that has the rights to manage your site in Yandex webmaster tools. You can also delegate rights to other users by adding your username and clicking Delegate Rights button.
Now that your site is verified and added in Yandex webmaster tools, you can view traffic statistics, search errors, search queries, internal and external links, site information, robots.txt analysis , mobile audit pages and more in the Yandex panel. You can use the menu on the left side of the screen to find any information you may need.
Yandex Webmaster Tools has options for site optimization that range from troubleshooting to important settings like robots.txt and .htaccess. You can further optimize your robots.txt for SEO separately and regularly perform WordPress maintenance to keep your site up to date.
We hope this article helped you learn how to add your WordPress site to Yandex Webmaster Tools. You may also want to see our list of the best WordPress SEO plugins and tools to use to rank your site in search engines.
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