How to Submit a Sitemap to Yandex Webmaster Tools

How to Submit a Sitemap to Yandex Webmaster Tools - Is it important to submit a site map to Yandex webmaster? Of course it's important, Yandex is one of the most used searchers besides Google, Bing and Yahoo. Search traffic for Indonesian sites from the Yandex search engine can not be underestimated especially the sites that speak English, of course, need to submit the site map "submit sitemap" to Yandex webmasters because in Russia Yandex searchers are no less popular than Google searchers.

The method or method of sending a sitemap to Yandex webmasters is actually the same as sending sitemaps to Bing and Yahoo, but from the registration side there is a slight difference, following I present a complete guide to submit sitemaps to Yandex webmaster tools, starting from creating a Yandex account.

Guide to Creating a Yandex Account

Visit the link https://passport.yandex.com/registration
Then press the sing-up button
Fill in the Yandex registration form with the correct data
See the example image below

Information:

In the password section add a unique character such as @ or!
Add telephone / mobile numbers with the format + 628xxxxx
Then confirm your Yandex account with the code sent to the telephone number.

If on bing and google webmasters we are directly directed to the webmaster dashboard but in contrast to yandex you will be directed to the yandex profile settings first, this step can actually be skipped and go directly to the yandex webmaster dashboard to submit a sitemap submit site map. Here are the steps to submit a sitemap to Yandex Webmaster Tools.

Submitting Sitemaps to Yandex

Make sure your Yandex account is still logged in
Then visit the link https://webmaster.yandex.com/sites/add/ and add the site url (Add site)

Then copy the website ownership confirmation code and place it exactly in the <head> code inside the site's "html" template.

<head>
<meta name="yandex-verification" content="a45cb8a8a03582d4" />



</head>
<body>


<body>

Then press the check button on the dashboard of Yandex webmaster to confirm your website / blog.

After the site has been successfully confirmed, click the Indexing menu, located on the left side of the webmaster yandex dashboard, then select the sitemap menu and add sitemap.xml complete with website / blog url like the example below;

https://xxxxxx.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml

Submit sitemap to yandex webmaster tools

Done

If you want to add a sitemap for static pages like the contact form page, about us and privacy policy, then add sitemap.xml with the following format;

https://xxxxxxxxxx.blogspot.com/sitemap-pages.xml

Thus "How to Submit a Sitemap to Yandex Webmaster Tools", may be useful to increase traffic "Search traffic" to your website. Wait a few days for the Yandex crawler to successfully crawl the entire web page until finally your site and content can be found on the yandex search engine.