Comments on: Yandex Webmaster Tools: Another Link Data Source

By: nguyentoloan

nguyentoloan — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:26:00 +0000

I like your post, Thank you!

By: Grandifer

Grandifer — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:13:00 +0000

Yandex has got nice Metrics as well. As for me, I like it even more than Google Analytics. It’s just more clear. As a SE, Yandex is better for commercial queries and people in Russia mostly use it that way. While Google is used for some educational info, or smth like that.
What I don’t like in Yandex is that it indexes pages VERY slowly as compared with Google. Anyway, if a site is updated on regular basis it index it much faster. Just to “help” Yandex I suggest you to use Twitter. It really helps.

Cheers!

By: Grandifer

Grandifer — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:12:00 +0000

Cheers!

By: Ram Kr Shukla

Ram Kr Shukla — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 05:17:00 +0000

Yandex retrieves data from different SE but most of the time fails to display identical links and displays a single link for multiple times

By: Ricky Shah

Ricky Shah — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:38:00 +0000

TIC is somewhat confusion. It also seems to be a region based. They also show TIC in search result if it is above TIC10.

By: Michael Kohlfürst

Michael Kohlfürst — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:55:00 +0000

Funny to see that Yandex still tries indexing URLs I already deleted a few years ago and tells me a 404. Setting up my robots.txt and sitemap.xml @ Yandex might bust their wrong 404 listings.

By: Dejan SEO

Dejan SEO — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:22:00 +0000

You should publish a complete guide to Yandex Webmaster Tools on your new blog.

By: Alistair Lattimore

Alistair Lattimore — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:02:00 +0000

There is more to Yandex Webmasters than the link profile data though.

They’ve got a number of groovy features, like being able to change how your URLs are presented in the SERP (ie letter casing), you can specify specific queries that you’d like detailed information on like impressions/click through rate. I think being able to see the URLs easily in your site that have been excluded via meta robots tags, a great feature for ecommerce sites is being able to see the non-canonical URLs that Yandex is crawling.

The other feature I thought was interesting was they provide a measure of importance, like PageRank, within their webmaster console known as Thematic Citation Index (TIC). Importantly, they are providing help documents for webmasters to better understand what TIC is and how it is calculated.

Another interesting feature of the webmaster console is that you can see the TIC figure broken down by region, so you might have a particularly high TIC in Russia but a much weaker TIC in United Kingdom – even though your content is relevant to both areas as an example. That is very helpful to a webmaster and suggests to me that the regional nature of links really matters to Yandex regarding how likely a page might be returned for a given query by a user located in area X of the world.

By: Matthew Barby

Matthew Barby — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:24:00 +0000

You’ve beat me to this Dan! Recently started a Russian SEO project and saw the potential of using the Yandex as a link analysis tool. I can’t believe how good it is! Good post though, gonna help a lot of people out.

By: Navin Poeran

Navin Poeran — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:05:00 +0000

Thanks.

Checking it out at the moment.

It’s nice to see a different webmaster tool software apart from the one we’re all used to.