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?
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User-Agent String used by YandexAdditional
YandexAdditionalHow to Block YandexAdditional?
Add the following standard robots.txt rule to prevent YandexAdditional from accessing your site.
User-agent: YandexAdditional Disallow: /