How to check if a site is an alternate address of another site

  1. Add the URL of the site you want to check in Yandex Webmaster. To do this, go to Yandex Webmaster and click .
  2. If a site is recognized as an alternate address, a message about it will appear when you add it to Yandex Webmaster, and it'll be replaced with the primary site address.
    Pay attention to the URL that Yandex Webmaster suggests for adding and verifying as the primary site address: check if it's yours or someone else's.

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When you change a site's primary or alternate addresses, it usually takes about a month for the changes to appear in search results. If you followed the instructions for moving or ungrouping site addresses but the search results haven't changed, contact support.

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The primary site address may change if the old site pages have a redirect or the rel="canonical" attribute referring the site that has become the primary address. To avoid automatic selection of the primary address, make sure that the pages on all alternate addresses redirect users to the corresponding pages on the desired primary address.

This means that the indexing bot has selected the primary site address automatically. Specify the correct site URL for the robot, following the recommendations in the Moving a site to a new domain name section.

Main reasons why sites aren't grouped:

  • On the site that you want to be the main address, the pages' source code contains the rel="canonical" attribute. Delete it and submit the request for moving again.
  • The site is unavailable or responds with a long delay.
  • The sites' content doesn't match. Check if the internal page URLs and headers match.
  • The site moves to another domain zone without a redirect.
  • Site indexing is prohibited in the robots.txt file.
  • Violations of the Search rules are detected on the site. View the details on the Security and violations page in Yandex Webmaster and fix the errors. In two weeks, check that the message about the violation disappears from Yandex Webmaster, and re-send the request.
  • The request was sent from the site to move to.
  • Internal service error. Try sending the request later.
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