How to add your website to Yandex Webmaster Tools

Note: You must have an account with Yandex in order to connect your site to Yandex Webmaster Tools. They require a phone number as part of the verification that you are a real human.

Yoast SEO allows you to connect your website to Yandex Webmaster Tools so you can track how Yandex is crawling your website.

  1. Go to Yandex Webmaster Tools

    Login, if needed.

  2. Click the plus sign button to add your website.

  3. Type your website’s URL in the box.

  4. Click the yellow ‘Add’ button to continue.

  5. Copy the verification code.

    You will want to use the meta tag under the first tab. Only copy the code that is in the apostrophes after content part of the markup, as per the image below.

  6. Log in to your WordPress website.

    When you’re logged in, you will be in your ‘Dashboard’. 

  7. Click on ‘SEO’.

    On the left-hand side, you will see a menu. In that menu, click on ‘SEO’.

  8. Click on ‘General’.

    The ‘SEO’ settings will expand providing you additional options. Click on ‘General’.

  9. Click on the ‘Webmaster Tools’ tab

  10. Paste the code under ‘Yandex Webmaster Tools’.

  11. Click ‘ Save Changes’.

  12. Switch back to Yandex Webmaster Tools and click ‘Check’.

Congratulations! You’ve connected your website to Yandex Webmaster Tools. Now you can use the dashboard tools to submit your sitemap and robots.txt files.