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YandexAdditional

YandexAdditional is the crawler Yandex uses to collect web content for its YandexGPT and other generative AI products, separate from the YandexBot search crawler.
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What is YandexAdditional?

YandexAdditional is Yandex's AI crawler. YandexAdditional is the crawler Yandex uses to collect web content for its YandexGPT and other generative AI products, separate from the YandexBot search crawler.

YandexAdditional matters for AI visibility because the pages it collects can shape what large language models learn about your brand, products, and expertise. Allowing it can strengthen how accurately AI systems describe and recommend you, while disallowing it keeps your content out of training data. Either way, knowing YandexAdditional visits is the first step to managing how your brand shows up in AI search.

Tracking which AI crawlers and agents reach your site, and what they do once there, is the foundation of generative engine optimization. See our guides to AI crawlers and robots.txt to control automated access and protect your AI search visibility.

Want to see every AI bot hitting your site? Promptwatch turns your server and CDN logs into a live view of AI crawler and agent traffic, so you can watch ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and others crawl your pages and connect those visits to real citations and revenue. Learn more in AI crawler logs.

See every AI bot hitting your site

Promptwatch turns your server and CDN logs into a live view of AI crawler and agent traffic. Watch ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and more crawl your pages in real time, see exactly what they take, and connect every crawl to the citations and revenue it drives.

How to handle YandexAdditional

If you do not want YandexAdditional using your content for AI training, disallow it in robots.txt. If you are comfortable contributing to AI systems, leave it allowed.

To control YandexAdditional, add a rule for its user agent to your robots.txt:

User-agent: YandexAdditional
Disallow: /

YandexAdditional generally honors robots.txt directives.

Examples

  • A publisher reviews server logs, sees YandexAdditional requesting long-form articles, and decides whether to allow or disallow it in robots.txt.
  • A site owner adds a Disallow rule for YandexAdditional to keep premium guides out of AI training datasets.

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Frequently asked questions about YandexAdditional

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YandexAdditional is operated by Yandex. It functions as Yandex's AI crawler.

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