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Yandex Market

Operated by Yandex

Quick Facts

User-Agent:
YandexMarket
Category:
Search Engines
Operator:
Yandex
Safety:
Safe
Blocking Impact:
Low - No SEO ranking impact
SEO Impact Score:
2/10
Official docs:
yandex.com

Confirmed by the operator

Yandex names YandexMarket on its own documentation page, linked above. The token, purpose and robots.txt behaviour on this profile come from that page, re-checked on October 19, 2026.

What is Yandex Market?

Yandex Market is an AI search-index crawler operated by Yandex. It collects and indexes web content so it can be surfaced as citations or answers inside Yandex's AI search experience. Allowing Yandex Market can increase your visibility in AI-powered search results, which is why most sites choose to permit it.

Yandex Market is an AI search-index crawler operated by Yandex. It collects and indexes web content so it can be surfaced as citations or answers inside Yandex's AI search experience. Allowing Yandex Market can increase your visibility in AI-powered search results, which is why most sites choose to permit it.
Yandex Market uses the user-agent token YandexMarket. You can control it via robots.txt, meta tags (noai), or the emerging llms.txt standard. Robots.txt is voluntary; for hard enforcement, combine it with server-level IP blocking.

What happens if you block Yandex Market?

🔶 AI Visibility Trade-off - Blocking Yandex Market will not hurt Google or Bing rankings, but it can remove your content from AI search answers and assistant citations powered by this crawler. Block only if you have a deliberate reason.
Generally safe to allow; provides legitimate crawling value.

How to block Yandex Market with robots.txt

<code>User-agent: YandexMarket</code> - Matching is case-insensitive. Robots.txt is fetched from the root of each subdomain separately.

Block completely (robots.txt)
User-agent: YandexMarket Disallow: /
Allow all (robots.txt)
User-agent: YandexMarket Allow: /
Block private only (robots.txt)
User-agent: YandexMarket Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /admin/ Allow: /
Nginx server block
# Nginx: Hard-block Yandex Market if ($http_user_agent ~* "YandexMarket") { return 403 "Bot blocked"; }
Apache .htaccess
# Apache: Hard-block Yandex Market SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "YandexMarket" bad_bot Order Allow,Deny Allow from all Deny from env=bad_bot
Meta robots tag
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
X-Robots-Tag header
X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow

Is Yandex Market safe to allow?

Yes, Yandex Market is a safe and legitimate crawler operated by Yandex. It follows the Robots Exclusion Protocol (RFC 9309) and can be controlled with standard robots.txt rules.
Verify by reverse-DNS lookup: legitimate Yandex Market requests resolve to Yandex's domain.

What does Yandex Market do?

Understanding Yandex Market's purpose helps you decide whether to allow or block it.

  • Indexes web pages for AI-powered search answers
  • Surfaces your content as citations inside AI search results
  • Builds a knowledge index used to answer user questions
  • Allowing it can increase visibility in AI search
  • Respects robots.txt directives

Yandex Market in context

Yandex Market is a search engine crawler operated by Yandex. In plain terms, it builds a search or answer index. Our database files it under search engines and ranks it Tier 3, mid-priority crawlers with a clear purpose but a smaller audience. 62 of the 63 search engines in our database share this tier.

Its safety rating is safe and its blocking impact is not documented. So the decision about Yandex Market rests on what you want from Yandex, not on its behaviour. How we rate safety and impact.

How site owners treat Yandex Market

Our robots.txt study of the Tranco top 10,000 did not track YandexMarket as a named token, so we do not publish an adoption figure for it. If you run a large site, your own logs are the best evidence of how often it visits.

Does it follow robots.txt?

Yandex Market's operator does not clearly document how it treats robots.txt. Write the Yandex Market rule anyway, then confirm in your logs that its requests stop.

Yandex crawlers and close alternatives

Yandex Market is one of 39 Yandex crawlers in our database. A User-agent: YandexMarket group controls Yandex Market only; the other Yandex tokens below need their own lines.

  • YandexMarket: this crawler (Tier 3)
  • YaDirectFetcher: Yandex Direct Fetcher, checks pages for an SEO, uptime or analytics service (Tier 3)
  • Yandex: Yandex, builds a search or answer index (Tier 3)
  • YandexAccessibilityBot: Yandex Accessibility, builds a search or answer index (Tier 3)
  • YandexAdditional: YandexAdditional, builds a search or answer index (Tier 3)
  • YandexAdditionalBot: YandexAdditionalBot, builds a search or answer index (Tier 3)
  • YandexAdNet: Yandex Advertising Network, checks pages for an SEO, uptime or analytics service (Tier 3)
  • YandexBlogs: Yandex Blogs, builds a search or answer index (Tier 3)
  • YandexBot: Yandex Search, builds a search or answer index (Tier 3)

To give Yandex Market the same answer as its siblings, stack User-agent: YandexMarket with their lines above one set of rules; to treat Yandex Market differently, give it its own group.

Other search engines that do the same job (builds a search or answer index) include Amzn-SearchBot from Amazon, Applebot from Apple, baidu from Baidu, Baiduspider from Baidu, Baiduspider-favo from Baidu, Baiduspider-image from Baidu. Deciding about Yandex Market is usually a decision about the whole group, so check how your file treats these too.

We first recorded YandexMarket on September 22, 2026. Yandex documents it on yandex.com, and we recheck that page before each release.

Which rule Yandex Market actually follows

Yandex Market reads exactly one group in robots.txt, the most specific one that names YandexMarket, and never combines rules across groups. This short file shows the trap:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /private/

User-agent: YandexMarket
Disallow: /drafts/
  1. Find the group. Yandex Market looks for a group naming YandexMarket. One exists, so it ignores User-agent: * completely.
  2. Apply only that group. It is refused /drafts/ and nothing else.
  3. The surprise. /private/ is open to Yandex Market, because that rule lives in the * group it no longer reads. To keep it out of both, repeat Disallow: /private/ inside its own group.
Test yourself: does a rule under User-agent: * apply to Yandex Market if the file also has a User-agent: YandexMarket group?

No. Once a group names it, Yandex Market reads only that group. Put every rule you want it to follow inside its own group.

Test yourself: will blocking Yandex Market remove your pages from AI answers?

Often, yes. Yandex Market is a search engine crawler, so pages it cannot fetch can drop out of the answers or results it supports.

Test yourself: is User-agent: yandexmarket the same as User-agent: YandexMarket?

Yes. RFC 9309 makes user-agent matching case-insensitive. Paths are a different story: Disallow: /Blog/ does not block /blog/.

Should you allow Yandex Market? Decide by situation

Recommended setting for Yandex Market by type of site
If you are...Recommended setting
You publish content and want AI answers to cite itAllow it. It is how this search engine finds your pages.
You license content and want to stop AI trainingBlocking it does not stop training, because Yandex Market is a search engine crawler. Block the operator's training crawler instead.
You run an online shopAllow it unless it is overloading your servers.
Your server is under load from botsRate-limit before blocking. It is rated safe in our database.

Check Yandex Market on your own site

  1. Open /robots.txt on your domain and search for YandexMarket. If it is not named, it follows User-agent: *.
  2. List the Disallow lines in the group Yandex Market follows and test your key URLs against them; the longest match wins, and Allow wins a tie.
  3. Look beyond the file. A firewall or bot manager can refuse Yandex Market even when robots.txt allows it, and that never shows in the file.
  4. Run our blocked AI crawler check to see how Yandex Market and every other crawler we track are treated in one pass, including firewall refusals.

Common mistakes with Yandex Market

The errors we see most often with Yandex Market in the files and firewalls we test:

  1. Blocking Yandex Market to save bandwidth and then wondering why pages drop out of that search engine. Use crawl-rate settings or caching first.
  2. Writing a User-agent: YandexMarket group to add one rule for Yandex Market and accidentally dropping every rule it used to follow under User-agent: *.
  3. Disallowing CSS and JavaScript folders, which can stop Yandex Market rendering your pages properly.

All three hide inside a file that looks correct, so check Yandex Market from outside after every change.

Spotting Yandex Market in your logs

robots.txt says what Yandex Market may do; your access logs show what it actually did.

Count requests

On a server with standard Nginx or Apache logs, this counts matching requests per day (adjust the log path for your host):

grep -iE "YandexMarket" /var/log/nginx/access.log \
  | awk '{print $4}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c

And this shows which paths it requested most, which is the quickest way to see whether your Disallow lines are being respected:

grep -iE "YandexMarket" /var/log/nginx/access.log \
  | awk '{print $7}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20

Check the requests are genuine

Anyone can send the Yandex Market user-agent, so confirm the source before acting on a match:

  • YandexMarket: we hold no published IP list, so use reverse DNS where the operator documents a hostname and treat an unverifiable Yandex Market request with caution.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the official user-agent string for Yandex Market?
The official user-agent string for Yandex Market is: YandexMarket. Use this exact string in robots.txt, Nginx, Apache, or Cloudflare firewall rules to target this bot. Matching in robots.txt is case-insensitive. Verify a request genuinely comes from Yandex Market by performing a reverse-DNS lookup on the source IP.
Is Yandex Market safe?
Yes, Yandex Market is a safe and legitimate crawler operated by Yandex. It follows the Robots Exclusion Protocol (RFC 9309) and can be controlled with standard robots.txt rules.
Will blocking Yandex Market hurt my SEO?
🔶 AI Visibility Trade-off - Blocking Yandex Market will not hurt Google or Bing rankings, but it can remove your content from AI search answers and assistant citations powered by this crawler. Block only if you have a deliberate reason.
How do I block Yandex Market in robots.txt?
Add the following lines to your /robots.txt file:
User-agent: YandexMarket
Disallow: /

This instructs Yandex Market not to crawl any path on your site. To block only specific sections, replace / with the path (e.g., Disallow: /blog/).
Does Yandex Market respect robots.txt?
Yandex Market is operated by Yandex and is expected to fetch and parse /robots.txt before crawling, following RFC 9309. For hard enforcement, combine robots.txt with server-level IP or user-agent blocking.
How do I verify if Yandex Market is crawling my site?
Search your web server access logs for the string YandexMarket (case-insensitive: grep -i "YandexMarket" /var/log/nginx/access.log). Filter by user-agent in your log analytics tool (GoAccess, AWStats, etc.).

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