Connecting Yandex Webmaster

Before you start

• Add and verify the site in Yandex Webmaster, signed in with the Yandex login you are about to connect. Yandex reports nothing for a site until it is verified, and data can take a few days after that. Connecting first is fine: GSC Wizard keeps looking for the site each time you open a report.
• The site must also be a Search Console property you own in GSC Wizard. A site that is only in Yandex Webmaster cannot be viewed in the app.
• You need an active subscription or a running trial. Without one, Connect Yandex Webmaster takes you to the subscription page.
• GSC Wizard reads Yandex through one Yandex login per account, so sites spread across two Yandex logins cannot be read at the same time. To switch to another login, click Disconnect first, then connect the other one.

How a property is matched to a Yandex host

The first time you open a Yandex report for a property, GSC Wizard looks for its host in your Yandex account and remembers the match.

• Both sides are reduced to a bare hostname: sc-domain:, http:// or https://, the path, and one leading www. are ignored. So sc-domain:example.com, https://example.com/ and https://www.example.com/ all match the Yandex hosts example.com and www.example.com.
• Other subdomains are not merged: sc-domain:example.com does not pick up shop.example.com. Add that subdomain as its own property.
• When several Yandex hosts match, a verified host wins, then one that is its own main mirror, then https. If that host names another main mirror in your account, the reports use the mirror, because Yandex keeps the data there.
• A URL-prefix property with a path, such as https://example.com/blog/, matches the whole host, and the reports say the figures cover the entire host.
• A miss is not remembered, so a site you add to Yandex later is picked up on a later visit.

What happens next

There is no import or sync to wait for: the reports read Yandex live, through your connection, when they load.

• A verified, indexed site shows data straight away. A recently verified site can take a few days before Yandex has data.
• Yandex’s last finished day is about four days behind, so the most recent days are always missing.
• Each report is cached for 60 minutes per property, date range and device, so a change you make in Yandex Webmaster can take up to an hour to show. A new range or device is fetched afresh.

Troubleshooting

What you see, why it happens, and what to do.

• Connect Yandex Webmaster lands on the subscription page: your trial has ended and there is no active subscription. Subscribe, then connect again from Account settings.
• “Yandex Webmaster access was cancelled or refused on the provider’s screen”: access was denied on Yandex. Connect again and approve both permissions.
• “The Yandex Webmaster connect link expired before you were sent back”: more than an hour passed, or the browser dropped the cookie. Start again and finish the Yandex screens in one go.
• “The Yandex Webmaster connection failed a security check”: two connect rounds ran at once. Close any other tab where you started a connect, then try again from one tab.
• The connection came back incomplete, your session ended, or something went wrong on our side: try again, signing in first if your session ended. Contact support if it keeps happening.
• “Yandex Webmaster isn’t connected”: there is no Yandex connection on your account. Use Go to account settings and connect.
• “This property isn’t in your Yandex account”: no host in the connected Yandex account matches the property. Often the connected Yandex login is not the one that owns the site, or the Yandex site is a different subdomain. Add and verify the exact host under the connected login (or disconnect and connect the right one), then reload the page.
• “This site isn’t verified in Yandex Webmaster yet”: finish verification in Yandex Webmaster. Data follows a few days later.
• “Yandex hasn’t indexed this site yet”: the site is verified but Yandex has not crawled it yet. This usually resolves within a few days of verification.
• “Reconnect Yandex Webmaster” in a report, or Reconnect needed in Account settings: Yandex rejected the saved authorisation, or it predates webmaster:verify. Click Reconnect Yandex.
• “Yandex data is available to the property owner”: the property is shared with you, and Yandex reads use the owner’s connection. The owner views the Yandex reports.
• “Yandex rate limit reached”: Yandex caps how many requests it answers per account per day. Come back after the reset time shown. Each switch of range or device is another request.
• “Yandex lookup failed” or “Failed to load Yandex data”: Yandex did not answer in time or returned an error. Reload the page in a few minutes; it is not retried automatically.
• A chart reads “Yandex returned no data for this range.”: widen the range. The last four days are always missing, and recently verified sites need a few days.
• “Failed to disconnect Yandex. Please try again.”: retry. You can also withdraw the permission from your Yandex account directly.

Reconnecting and disconnecting

Both live on the same card in Account settings.

• Reconnect Yandex replaces the connect button when the connection needs granting again. It runs the same flow, and reconnecting the same Yandex login updates the connection in place.
• Disconnect revokes the authorisation at Yandex, removes it from GSC Wizard, and forgets every property’s Yandex host match. There is no confirmation step.
• To move to a different Yandex login, disconnect first and then connect the new one. Each property is then matched again against the new account.