The server does not allow some search bots from Russia to pass through

[ChrisPAR]

Please read this thread, the discussion here may help you:

Yandex cannot index site dut to error 403

Website URL (please specify the URL of the site on which you are experiencing the problem) Error Message 403 Forbidden Other Information Various bots of Yandex search system cannot index any page of my site due to error 403 (Forbidden). I cannot change any settings related to that, because I don’t have them. So the problem is in the hosting settings, obviously. How can it be solved?

This was my guess about Yandex being blocked by the security system:

Yandex cannot index site dut to error 403

It may not be, but it can help offer an explanation. InfinityFree uses this security system: Normally, web crawling bots from search engines such as Yandex are whitelisted, however if Yandex keeps changing the IP ranges they are using, the system, unaware of those changes, would enforce the security checks on Yandex’s requests and cause this issue, much like how Cloudflare can block legitimate Yandex requests thinking they are malicious when this happens. This is just speculation though; I a…

I am afraid this is the conclusion that was reached:

@anon95807532

it’s likely Yandex indexing is not compatible with InfinityFree.

Without that being an intentional act from InfinityFree’s side:

@Admin

There are more people reporting issues with their sites not getting indexed by Yandex, but other sites do seem to be getting indexed without any problems. I don’t know that much about Yandex, so I have no idea why it works for some sites and not for others, I can’t imagine how our hosting would discriminate somehow.