What is YandexMobileBot?
YandexMobileBot is a web crawler operated by Yandex, Russia's largest search engine. It crawls mobile versions of websites and simulates mobile device traffic to ensure proper representation in mobile search results. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when YandexMobileBot visits your website.
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| Example User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Mobile/12B411 Safari/600.1.4 (compatible; YandexMobileBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots) YTranslate |
| Operated By | Yandex |
| Source | Official Website |
| Triggered By | Automated crawl |
| Used for AI Model Training | Not expected |
| Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility | Possibly |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
Why Is YandexMobileBot Visiting My Website?
YandexMobileBot is adding new or changed pages to its search index. It may have discovered your site through links, a sitemap, or direct submission.
Should I Block YandexMobileBot?
No, unless you want to remove your pages from that search engine. YandexMobileBot supplies its index, so blocking it can eliminate your visibility and organic traffic there. Nearly every website should allow this category. For context, 7% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for YandexMobileBot.
How Do I Block YandexMobileBot Using Robots.txt?
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block YandexMobileBot from accessing your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all search engine crawlers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: YandexMobileBot # https://knownagents.com/agents/yandexmobilebot
Disallow: /Insights for YandexMobileBot
As of October 29, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Compliance
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Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From YandexMobileBot?
YandexMobileBot follows an algorithmic schedule shaped by your site's popularity, update cadence, and domain authority. It generally spreads requests across recurring crawl passes, throttles itself to limit server load, and respects crawl rules more reliably than most other bots.
Does YandexMobileBot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
YandexMobileBot is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step if you want to block it. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether YandexMobileBot respects it.
Is YandexMobileBot Used for AI Model Training?
Not ordinarily. YandexMobileBot is not categorized as an AI training scraper or data provider, so AI model training is not its expected purpose.
Does Blocking YandexMobileBot Affect AI Search or Citations?
Blocking YandexMobileBot can remove your pages from the search engine it supplies. That may also affect AI products that rely on the same index, but it does not directly control unrelated AI search services.
Does YandexMobileBot Access Private Content?
No special access. YandexMobileBot can reach only content available to anonymous visitors and does not sign in. Make sure sensitive content is not public by mistake.
How Can I Verify a Request From YandexMobileBot?
Agent Analytics tracks YandexMobileBot visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "YandexMobileBot". Look for recurring passes that revisit changed pages and discover new ones. Because YandexMobileBot does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.
How Is YandexMobileBot Different From Other Yandex Agents?
Yandex operates separate agents for different purposes, so each agent should be evaluated and controlled independently.
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