How to reindex a site

To make sure that changes to your site are displayed in the Yandex search results faster, notify the indexing robot:

  1. In Yandex.Webmaster, go to Indexing → Reindex pages.
  2. Enter the URL of the updated page in the field.
  3. Click Send.

The Yandex robot will visit the specified URL as a priority the next time it accesses the site.

You have reported a page included in the search

The changes will appear in the search results the next time the search database is updated, that is, within two weeks.

You have reported a new page
When the robot crawls the page, it loads it into its database. It will be displayed in the search results if it matches the user's search query. For more information, see How the Yandex search works.

An error occurred after sending a page for reindexing

If after some time the status on Indexing → Page reindex changes to Error, this means that the robot failed to index the page and update the information about it in the search database. Make sure that the page is accessible to the robot and the server returns the response quickly enough. Then send the page for reindexing.

Tell us what your question is about so we can direct you to the right specialist:

The pages are accessible to the robot, but the “Error” status persists
The pages are accessible to the robot and sent for reindexing, but do not appear in the search for more than three weeks
Information on the site has been modified, but the old version is displayed in the search results
The site or individual pages are prohibited in robots.txt, but are still in the search
The old pages are deleted and redirect to the new ones, but are still present in the search

Make sure that:

  • The pages can be accessed by the robot (use the Server response check tool).

  • The information about pages is present in the Sitemap file.

  • The Disallow and noindex prohibiting directives and the noindex HTML element in the robots.txt file prevent only technical and duplicate pages from indexing.

If you followed the instructions when deleting the site pages and more than two weeks passed after the last crawl by the Yandex robot, fill out the form below:

If you use a redirect, the robot will gradually track redirects and the old pages will disappear from the search results as it crawls the site. For the robot to learn about the changes faster, send the pages for reindexing.

If the page URLs change because you changed the site's domain name, the search data update may take more than a month. Check if the mirrors are configured correctly.