Yandex Webmaster Updates Menu Tool Arrangement for Better User Experience

Posted by By Dan Taylor 1 Min Read

Yandex Webmaster has reorganized its menu layout to create a more user-friendly experience. The changes aim to make navigating and using Webmaster tools more intuitive for webmasters.

Key Changes in the Menu

The “Website Optimization” section now includes several important tools for technical analysis. These tools include “Website Diagnostics,” “Security and Violations,” and “Optimization Tips.”

The “Efficiency” section now focuses on tools for search queries. Webmasters will find “Query Statistics,” “Page Statistics,” “Group Management,” and “Query Monitoring” here.

Additionally, two new tools have been introduced: “Query Selection and Market Analysis” and “Traffic and Product Range Analytics.”

The “Useful Services” section features tools like Yandex Browser with sales growth features. This includes tools for improving conversions and customer acquisition. “Yandex Goods,” for managing product feeds, is also included in this section. However, the “Products in Search” section is no longer available.

These updates follow earlier changes to the “Query Monitoring” tool that Yandex announced.

Source: Yandex blog for webmasters

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Dan Taylor is the founder and editor of International Search Insights (ISI), the publication behind ReadIsi, and a Partner and Head of Innovation (Search & AI) at SALT.agency. He has worked in search for more than a decade, in-house and agency-side, and is regarded as one of the West’s leading voices on search engines beyond Google, including Yandex, Baidu, Naver and Cốc Cốc. On ReadIsi, Dan covers the engines and AI answer platforms that English-language coverage tends to miss: Baidu and ERNIE, Yandex and Alice AI, Naver, Cốc Cốc, Shenma, Sogou, WeChat and Weibo search, plus DeepSeek and Alibaba’s Qwen. He also keeps dated records of documented changes, such as the Yandex, Baidu and Naver algorithm update histories and the DeepSeek, ERNIE and Qwen model update histories. His approach is to take learnings from global search engines and apply logic with a high evidence threshold. A claim needs a source, patterns seen in one market are treated as a hypothesis until they are checked in another, and where the evidence is thin he says so. For brands, that means advice built on what can be shown, with measurement that separates being cited from being chosen. Dan is credited with coining the term “edge SEO” and won the inaugural TechSEO Boost research competition in 2018 for his work on CDN and edge changes for SEO. In 2026 he was credited with coining “Infinite Tail” to describe how keyword research is changing with AI search. He is the author of AI Search Marketing For The Travel Sector, writes for Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Land and Travel Marketing Guy, and has advised technology, SaaS, travel and enterprise ecommerce brands, including Cloudflare, GitLab and Airbnb. He has given multiple talks and panels at the International Search Summit in Barcelona, and has also spoken at Optimization Moscow, brightonSEO, Google Search Central Live Deep Dive Asia in Bangkok, Athens SEO and the Asia SEO Virtual Summit 2026, where his talk looked at how Baidu, Naver, DeepSeek, Tencent, Cốc Cốc and Yandex built their own AI answers.
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