How to Verify Your Site with Yandex Webmaster Tools

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Are you looking to add your site to Yandex Webmaster Tools? All in One SEO makes it really easy so you can use their great free tools.

Here we’ll show you how to authenticate your site using the HTML tag method.

In This Article

What is Yandex Webmaster Tools?
Adding your Site to Yandex Webmaster Tools
Verifying Ownership of Your Site

What is Yandex Webmaster Tools?

Yandex is a popular search engine in Russia and its Webmaster Tools is a free site where you can see how your content is listed in their search results.

You don’t have to use Yandex Webmaster Tools to be listed in search results, but it really helps you see problems before they impact your ranking.

NOTE:
If you’ve already verified your site with Yandex Webmaster Tools then you don’t need to do it again. You only need to verify your site once when you first add it in Yandex Webmaster Tools.

Adding your Site to Yandex Webmaster Tools

To get started, you’ll need to sign into Yandex Webmaster Tools.

If you don’t have an account, you can either register for one, or you can use your Facebook, Google or Twitter account to log in.

Once you’ve logged in, you’ll see a My sites page. Click on the Add site button.

Enter the full URL for your site in the box and click the Add button.

Add your site URL in the Site address box

IMPORTANT:
The URL you enter must exactly match the URL for your site. This includes https:// or not and www or not.

Verifying Ownership of Your Site

Next, you’ll see a screen that says Verify rights to, and you’ll see some code here. Select the code with your mouse, right click on the selected text and choose Copy.

Select and copy the HTML verification code in Yandex Webmaster Tools

Open a new browser window and log into your WordPress site. Click on General Settings in the All in One SEO menu and then click on the Webmaster Tools tab.

Webmaster Tools screen in All in One SEO

Now click on the Yandex Webmaster Tools block and paste the code you copied into the Yandex Verification Code field and click Save Changes.

Paste your verification code in the Yandex Verification Code field in All in One SEO

Now all that’s left is to go back to Yandex Webmaster Tools in your other browser window and click the Check button.

Click the Check button in Yandex Webmaster Tools to complete the process

Congratulations! You’ve verified your site with Yandex Webmaster Tools!

Are you interested in verifying your site with Google as well? Visit our article on How to Verify your Site with Google Search Console.

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Yandex is the leading search engine in Russia with a local market share of 50.38% (March, 2019). If Russia is an important market for your business or blog, then you should verify your website in Yandex Webmaster Tools so you can keep track of indexing and any other issues that may arise. For this purpose, All in One SEO Pack offers a convenient way to authenticate your website.

First, navigate to Yandex Webmaster Tools and register or log into your existing account.

Once you're logged in, you should see a "+" button in the navigation bar at the top of the screen. Click the button and then enter the domain name of your website.

You'll now see a screen where you're given a few different options to verify your website - Meta tag, HTML file, DNS record and WHOIS.

In order to authenticate your website via All in One SEO Pack, you need to select the "Meta tag" tab and then copy the unique 16 character code that's between quotes (see screenshot below). Don't copy the entire tag and don't copy the double quotes either.

Now let's head over to your website and go to the "General Settings" menu of All in One SEO Pack. If you scroll down a bit, you'll see a section called "Webmaster Verification". Paste the unique code you've just copied into the "Yandex Webmaster Tools" field and make sure to update your settings.

Now, go back to Yandex Webmaster Tools and click the "Check" button in the bottom right corner of the screen (see second screenshot). Yandex will crawl your website to confirm that you own the website. This verification process should take less than a minute.

Once your website is verified in Yandex Webmaster Tools, you should take some time to browse through the different menus and see which features Yandex has to offer. You should at least submit the All in One SEO Pack sitemap under "Indexing > Sitemap files" so that Yandex is aware of all your website's URLs.