YandexMobileBot

Yandex · Search engines · json

User-agent: YandexMobileBot
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenYandexMobileBot
User-agent containsYandexMobileBot
OperatorYandex
CategorySearch engines
robots.txtignores the * group; obeys rules named for its own token
Verify byreverse DNS

What it is

Decides whether a page's layout is suitable for mobile devices. Yandex's table marks it as NOT taking the general robots.txt rules into account, so a * group does not stop it — a group named YandexMobileBot does.

What blocking it costs you

Yandex loses its mobile-friendliness signal for your pages, which affects how they are ranked and rendered on phones.

Full user-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Mobile/12B411 Safari/600.1.4 (compatible; YandexMobileBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)

Allow it instead

User-agent: YandexMobileBot
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