Yandex is very different from Google, when it comes to stable rankings and updates of search results. It is very important to keep in mind that while Google SERPs are never 100% stable, in Yandex not many changes happen on a daily basis.
This used to be the case with Google before as well, but it [...]
Have to tell you guys from the beginning that none of my clients was even penalized or banned from Yandex. I had problems with particular pages a couple of times, but never with an entire website. But since it is an important thing to know and I get many questions related to Yandex penalties, I [...]
Have you ever wondered why Google indexed your new born site in minutes, but Yandex has never come around? Sounds familiar, huh?
The first question you need to ask yourself is “Have I actually submitted my site to Yandex at all?”. That you can do here: http://webmaster.yandex.ru/. Just type in the URL. Otherwise, you will be [...]
Yandex Webmaster tools (also called Yandex Webmaster panel) is a highly useful tool for all Yandex SEOs. It is good. It is free. It is an (surprise! ) almost exact copy of Google Webmaster Tools, hence it won’t take much time to figure out how to use them.
Yandex webmaster tools can be accessed here: [...]
Meta tags is an old topic discussed and argued about in hundreds and hundreds of blog posts. We all know that good Meta Title and Meta description can improve click-through rate from the SERPs and help rankings.
Writing Meta tags for Yandex, however, is a bit special. What you need to know is that Yandex only [...]
Backlinks of a typical Russian website is a total nightmare. You will probably find lots of spammy directories and social bookmarks. This is how the SEOs in Russia usually begin their SEO efforts to get sites quickly indexed and receive initial PR and Quotation Index.
There are dozens of services and scripts offering to register your [...]
In April Yandex launched a new algorithm known as Arzamas these days (Arzamas is a name of a Russian city btw). Apart from many new factors affecting rankings, such as for example duplicate content filter that removed over one million of pages from the index in one night, in the new algorithm was implemented a [...]
A quick note: Yandex does not recognize attribute ”nofollow”, i.e. if you nofollow your links, Yandex will still see and index them. Instead of nofollow attribute Yandex SEO use tag “noindex”:
This is very important to keep in mind that most of the SEO tools we use look for nofollowed links and do not underline or [...]
The basics:
When creating keyword lists for your American, German or French sites, you turn to Google for keyword suggestions. But what do you do in Russia?
Google is not very good with Russian semantics, besides the amount of searchers in Google.ru is not that high. Is Google.ru keyword data reliable? Who is using Google? Can it [...]
This is the first post of the series “10+ things to know before you start”. I decided to create this category because although Yandex works in a similar way to Google, there are several Yandex-specific factors, which you must consider when doing your Yandex SEO.
Quotation index is one of them.
Quotation index is a grade of [...]