YandexAdditionalBot
recommended: observeYandexAdditionalBot is a web crawler operated by Yandex that retrieves website content for YandexGPT quick answers in Yandex Search.
What it does
YandexAdditionalBot works like Googlebot with a less predictable calendar. Expect recurring crawls across your whole site, at a frequency that tracks how often your content changes and how much authority your site carries. Visits can cluster in bursts when its index refreshes.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
YandexAdditionalBot
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control YandexAdditionalBot:
Allow full access
User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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