Yandex Rolls Out Mobile Friendly Algorithm in Russia, Code Name Vladivistok

Russian search engine "Yandex" has launched mobile friendly algorithm today.

Yandex rolls out mobile friendly algorithm for Russian index. The algorithm code named is “Vladivostok”, the name of the big city in the Russian, where the share of mobile internet users is the largest compared to other state in the Russia.


Yandex search engine team says that the new mobile -friendly algorithm is available only in Russia but will be available to searcher in these country like: Ukraine , Belarus, Kazakhstan and Turkey in the coming few months in this year.

In the Last month 2015, Yandex began labeling mobile-friendly pages in their index with the goal to release this new algorithm.

“Vladivostok” implementation means that your web pages are optimized for mobile experience. Web pages is well optimized according to mobile friendly algorithm, then their position on SERPS may differ depending on whether the user searches on mobile or desktop.