YandexVerticals bot

The YandexVerticals bot is a dedicated indexing bot for Yandex's vertical search services, which focus on specific content categories like automotive listings or real estate. Unlike the general YandexBot, this crawler targets structured data within specific industries to enhance Yandex's specialized search offerings. The bot identifies itself in server logs with the user-agent string Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexVerticals/1.0; +http://yandex.com/bots). It prioritizes pages with structured data markup like Schema.org.

The YandexVerticals bot is visiting your website because your content falls within one of Yandex's vertical search categories, such as real estate or job listings. The crawler is particularly interested in structured data about your products or services. The frequency of visits depends on how often your content changes. This is a standard and authorized crawling activity for a search engine, particularly for sites targeting Russian-speaking markets.

The purpose of the YandexVerticals bot is to power Yandex's specialized vertical search services by collecting and indexing niche content. This allows Yandex to provide more targeted and relevant results in these domains. For website owners, being included in these vertical search results can provide significant value by increasing visibility within a highly targeted search context. Sites with well-structured data that appear in these results often receive qualified traffic from users with specific interests.

To prevent the YandexVerticals bot from accessing your website, you can add a specific disallow rule to your robots.txt file. This will prevent your pages from appearing in Yandex's vertical search results.

To block this bot, add the following lines to your robots.txt file:

User-agent: YandexVerticals
Disallow: /