Submit website/blog to Russian search engine Yandex & Rambler
Its been a lot of time since i have posted about Search engine optimization in this blog, and a few readers also asked about traffic from local search engines, for specific countries rather than just google.com and yahoo.com traffic, so here is a start to all of you. First one is the Russian search engines – Yandex and Rambler which are very popular in Russia and millions of users hit the search engines every month.
Its not always optimization that works, but you at least need to be indexed by search engines to get into the search results in those engines. So submission to these search engines is a necessary step. Here are the steps to follow to submit to the Yandex and Rambler search engines.
Yandex search engine submission -
Yandex has an alexa global ranking of 31 right now, which is very high for a particular country. It is the most popular search engine in Russia. So getting indexed there would be good for local traffic, and if you have the language translation tools in your blog. Here is how to submit to Yandex -
Open – http://webmaster.yandex.ru
There you would see 2 sections. Submit your URL in that section, and enter the captcha code in the next box and then submit. The below image would show you better.
Rambler search engine submission -
Rambler is the 2nd popular search engine in Russia, and submission in here is a bit bigger process, but easy if you follow the below steps -
Open http://robot.rambler.ru/cgi-bin/addsite.cgi
Here you would see a list of sections, which are explained in the image below, and also you have to enter the title and description of the website in Russian language, which you can convert from English through the Google translation service.
Posted on April 5, 2009 in Search Engines
Submitted. Thanks for the tip.
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Oh No! I commented in Russian, and it turned all question marks
Anyway, thanks for the info 
Thanks for the info, Yandex already crawls our site daily without us having had to do anything. I was actually pondering OMITTING Yandex from crawling or indexing our sites as most of our comment spam comes from Russia, Romania and old eastern block countries.
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Its been reported in the past that “a full 25% of phishing attacks (ie fraudulent financial transactions) originated from St.Petersburg Russia.” If Yandex is somehow spearheading the effort to stop this and other types of fraudulent activity, then I’ll begin to change my mind about the utility of such search engines to a broad base of users and not merely phishers, spammers and criminals.
Nice info Chetan.. How about the spider? will not make server work heavy right?
Anyway, i still prefer Google, for any kind of search.
Does those Search Engines, works better than google ? At least for russian searches ?
the 2nd one was a bit confusing type … didn’t knew which button to HIT to continue, but finally submitted my site …
i guess few of the sites were already in there.
good article , thanks
Glad the captcha was not int those languages
thanks so much bro…
but i cannot submit to yandex, they said there is none Russian word inside the site.
Thanks, this information. ))
thanks for the information! just submitted my site http://greatpdf.com, and used the google translate for the description and title: free ebook pdf search engine.
Block Yandex in robots.txt, that’s all…or/and use Crawl-Delay directive
Worked great my site is in the system in Russia so lets drink some vodka!!