How to connect Yandex Webmaster
Bring Yandex impressions, clicks, index count and site problems into seops.
Yandex Webmaster is the free site tool of the Yandex search engine. Its share is small in most markets but matters for Russian-speaking countries and some international audiences.
What opens in seops
- 4 · Tracking › Search performance › Yandex: impressions and clicks, pages in search, site problems, queries, sitemaps
Steps
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Add and verify the site
Sign in with a Yandex account and add the site with +. For verification choose DNS record and add the TXT it shows under Cloudflare DNS, then Check.
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Create an OAuth app
Create a new app: name
seops, platform Web services, redirect URIhttps://oauth.yandex.com/verification_code. Under permissions tick the Yandex.Webmaster options, Create app. -
Get a token
Copy the app's ClientID and open this address with it:
https://oauth.yandex.com/authorize?response_type=token&client_id=CLIENT_ID. Allow access and copy the token shown. -
Paste the token in seops
In seops open Account › Setup, paste the token in the Connect Yandex Webmaster step and press Check (no such step? use Change the stack or features). seops verifies it and stores it encrypted; afterwards only the last 4 characters show under Settings › Project settings › Saved keys.
How to use it in seops
- 4 · Tracking › Search performance › Yandex
- IndexNow submissions already go to Yandex; nothing else to do