YandexVerticals
Yandex operates YandexVerticals, the robot for its Verticals (Classifieds) services: Auto.ru, Yandex Realty, Yandex Jobs and Yandex Reviews. It honors robots.txt under the token YandexVerticals. Yandex documents no IP range list; site owners verify it by reverse DNS to a yandex.ru, yandex.net or yandex.com hostname with a matching forward lookup, or with the Yandex Webmaster IP check tool.
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexVerticals/1.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)What YandexVerticals does
In logs the robot presents the user agent Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexVerticals/1.0; +http://yandex.com/bots). Yandex describes it as the robot of Yandex Verticals, its classifieds group, and names four services it works for: Auto.ru, Yandex Realty, Yandex Jobs and Yandex Reviews. The documentation does not spell out which pages the robot requests or how it selects them. The Yandex bots page linked from the user agent is the operator's reference for it.
Yandex lists this robot as one that takes general robots.txt rules into account, so a rule in the catch-all User-agent: * group applies to it as well as any group addressed to YandexVerticals by name. Blocking it withholds your pages from the four classifieds services named above; allowing it makes them available to those services. The documentation says nothing about crawl rate or JavaScript execution for this robot.
Yandex documents no IP range file for YandexVerticals. The documented check is reverse DNS on the requesting address, which should return a hostname ending in yandex.ru, yandex.net or yandex.com, followed by a forward lookup on that hostname that returns the original IP. Yandex also provides an IP address check tool in Yandex Webmaster for the same purpose. A request that carries the YandexVerticals user agent but fails both checks is not a verified Yandex request.
Operator note. It takes into account the general rules in robots.txt.
Controlling YandexVerticals with robots.txt
Use the token YandexVerticals in robots.txt. Yandex documents that YandexVerticals honors robots.txt directives.
User-agent: YandexVerticals
Disallow: /User-agent: YandexVerticals
Allow: /Verifying a request is really YandexVerticals
Anyone can put YandexVerticals in a User-Agent header. Reverse DNS lookup on the requesting IP must return a host ending in yandex.ru, yandex.net or yandex.com, and a forward DNS lookup of that host must return the same IP. Yandex Webmaster also provides an IP address check tool.
host <request-ip>
# expect a hostname ending in yandex.ru, yandex.net, yandex.com
host <that-hostname>
# expect it to resolve back to <request-ip>Common questions
Should I block YandexVerticals?
Block it only if you do not want your content in Auto.ru, Yandex Realty, Yandex Jobs or Yandex Reviews, since Yandex says this robot works for those classifieds services. A Disallow rule addressed to User-agent: YandexVerticals in robots.txt is the documented control, and the robot also follows your general User-agent: * rules.
Does YandexVerticals follow robots.txt?
Yes. Yandex's robot list marks YandexVerticals as honoring robots.txt and states that it takes general robots.txt rules into account, so both a group addressed to it by name and the catch-all User-agent: * group apply to it.
How do I verify YandexVerticals?
Do a reverse DNS lookup on the IP address; the hostname should end in yandex.ru, yandex.net or yandex.com. Then do a forward lookup on that hostname and confirm it returns the same IP. Yandex documents no IP range file, but its Webmaster service includes an IP address check tool you can use instead.
Sources
Every fact on this page was checked against Yandex's own documentation, listed below, and re-checked by a second reviewer before publication. Reviewed September 2026.
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