Verification is the process of proving to Yandex that you are the owner of a website. It is important to confirm ownership because once you the verified of a site you have access to its private data, and can affect how Yandex crawls it.
Locate your verification code
To locate your Yandex site verification code:
- Login to your Yandex Webmaster Tools account.
https://webmaster.yandex.com/
- From the webmaster tools homepage, select My sites.
- Locate the site that you would like to verify.
- From the site menu, select Verification followed by the Meta tag tab. You will be prompted with a Meta tag source code which is typically added into the <head> section of your website. Simply extract the code which appears between the content quotation marks - as shown below.
<meta name="yandex-verification" content="FD7051125675657234GT5763JSDH2" />
Adding the verification code
- From your Divendo admin, select Optimise.
- From the Site verification menu, select Yandex. You will be presented with the site verification dialog.
- Select the Enable verification checkbox, and enter the code you extracted above into the Verification Code textbox.
- Click the Save button.