Yandex User-Agent & Blocking Rules
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What is Yandex?
Legacy or alternative user-agent string sometimes used by Yandex's crawling infrastructure. It serves a similar purpose to the main YandexBot.
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Is Yandex Safe?
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User-Agent String used by Yandex
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Add the following standard robots.txt rule to prevent Yandex from accessing your site.
User-agent: Yandex Disallow: /