YandexImages

Yandex · Search engines · json

User-agent: YandexImages
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenYandexImages
User-agent containsYandexImages
OperatorYandex
CategorySearch engines
robots.txtobeys robots.txt (documented)
Verify byreverse DNS

What it is

Indexes images for Yandex Images. Yandex's robot table marks it as taking the general robots.txt rules into account.

What blocking it costs you

Your images leave Yandex Images, which is a large share of image search in Russian-speaking markets.

Full user-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexImages/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)

Allow it instead

User-agent: YandexImages
Allow: /

Operator documentation: https://yandex.com/support/webmaster/en/robot-workings/check-yandex-robots
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · allow-ai-search-only · maximum-ai-visibility