YandexAdditional User-Agent & Blocking Rules

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What is YandexAdditional?

A supplementary crawler used by Yandex for specific indexing tasks that may not be covered by the main YandexBot.

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Is YandexAdditional Safe?

Yes, YandexAdditional is considered safe.

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User-Agent String used by YandexAdditional

YandexAdditional

How to Block YandexAdditional?

Add the following standard robots.txt rule to prevent YandexAdditional from accessing your site.

User-agent: YandexAdditional
Disallow: /