Yandex news

Yandex.Webmaster tracks website rankings by ten arbitrary queries

Monitoring of site rankings in the search engines is the task of SEO. Yandex.Webmaster service broadened its functional for webmasters: monitoring of site rankings by ten target queries of a website in the Yandex search engine is more accessible now, but there exist two serious restrictions, you can gather the statistics only for your websites, and you can track only ten key queries.

rel="nofollow" link attribute is taken into account by Yandex

In the wake of Google Yandex added rel="nofollow" link attribute to its arsenal. This attribute is used for excluding special pages of the site from the search index.

Yandex goes to Belarus

Yandex developed a special site ranking formula, translated the search engine results page (SERP) interface, adapted the search algorithm to the morphology of the Belarusian language.

Yandex search engine results page acquired fixed width

The users expressed their indignation apropos of this because on wide-screen displays the search engine results occupy only half the screen. However, developers justified such decision by the fact that search engine results are perceived better in such a way. The opponents of the innovation discover the promotion of contextual advertising in it as in this case it is contextual advertising that is located in the center of the display.

Yandex snippets with navigation chains

This innovation affects “ponderous” websites that contain well-structured information. Its main objective is to initially demonstrate the hierarchical structure of the site.

Date of news publication in Yandex SERP

For news web resources the date of publication is available right in the search results.

Quick Yandex links in two columns

Now Yandex outputs quick links for the most relevant search results in two columns.

Yandex.Video Wizard

Yandex analyzes the query for relevance to its video resources and includes several most popular videos into the search results.

TAGS
yandex, yandex in belarus, yandex fixed width serp, yandex snippet navigation chains, quick links, video wizard, yandex nofollow, site rankings in yandex