Do you want to connect your website to Yandex Webmaster Tools?

Webmaster tools such as Google Search Console, Bing and Yandex can help you optimize your website, monitor traffic, manage robots.txt, check for website errors, and more.

In this article, we will share how to add your WordPress website to the Yandex Webmaster Tool to monitor your search engine traffic.

What is Yandex?

Yandex is a popular search engine based in Russia, similar to Google and Bing. You can optimize your website's SEO in Yandex to attract more visitors from Russia.

Yandex has a range of tools such as universal search engines, image search, email, video, maps, and more. It also provides webmaster tools to help you rank your website and monitor traffic statistics, search queries, keywords, and more.

You can connect your WordPress website to Yandex using the All in One SEO plugin. It works similarly to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.

How to add your WordPress site in Yandex Webmaster Tools

Before you start, you need to create a Yandex Webmaster Tools account to connect to your website.

After you create an account, you can log in to your WordPress website and configure the Yandex Webmaster Tools using the all-in-one SEO plug-in. You can learn how to install and configure the plug-in in our guide on how to set up all-in-one SEO for WordPress.

The free version of All in One SEO includes webmaster tool verification capabilities. Their Pro version has more powerful SEO capabilities.

Let's take a look at how to add your website in the Yandex Webmaster Tools and start optimizing it now.

1. Create an account on Yandex
2. Log in to the WordPress admin area and add code

Step 1: Create an account on Yandex

The first thing you need to do is log in to your Yandex Webmaster Tools account. If you do not have a Yandex account, you can use this link to create an account.

After you create an account, you will see the Yandex Webmaster page.

On this page, you need to click the " " button in the top bar to add your website to Yandex.

In the Site Address field, you need to add the full domain name of the website and click the "Add" button.

Note: If your main domain name www is used in the URL, then you need to add it before the domain name (e.g. www.wpbeginner.com).

On the next page, you will be asked to verify site ownership by adding meta content to your WordPress site.

Go ahead and copy the content code from this page, as you will need it in step 2.

Step 2: Log in to the WordPress admin area and add code

Now you need to log in to the WordPress admin area and add verification codes in the All in One SEO Webmaster Settings.

Just go to "All-in-One SEO" ? General Settings and click the "Webmaster Tools" menu item.

Next, select the Yandex Webmaster Tools block.

You then need to paste the code into the Yandex verification code field and click the "Save Changes" button.

After adding the code to your WordPress site, you need to return to the Yandex Webmaster Tools page where you copied the code.

Now you should click the Check button to verify ownership.

After successful verification, your username will be displayed in the Yandex Webmaster Tools, which has the right to manage your website.

You can also delegate permissions to other users by adding the username of another user and clicking the Delegate Permissions button.

Now that your website is verified and added to the Yandex Webmaster Tools, you can view traffic statistics, search errors, search queries, internal and external links, website information, robots.txt analysis, mobile audit pages, and more in the Yandex dashboard.

You can use the menu on the left side of the screen to find any information you want.

Yandex Webmasters provide website optimization options, from troubleshooting to important settings such as robots.txt and .htaccess. You can further optimize robots.txt individually for SEO and perform WordPress maintenance tasks regularly to keep your website up to date.

We hope this article helps you understand how to add a WordPress website to the Yandex Webmaster Tools. You may also want to check out our experts’ pick of the best WordPress SEO plugins and tools, as well as our tips on optimizing SEO blog posts to rank your website in search engines.

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