Cloaking for Yandex Ads
Yandex Direct reviews the destination behind an ad with its own dedicated fetcher — the same role AdsBot plays for Google Ads or AdIdxBot for Microsoft Advertising — separate from YandexBot, the general search-indexing crawler, and YandexDirect, a different publisher-side bot. Cloaking X's job on a Yandex Direct stream is to recognize that specific reviewer and route it away from your money page without touching a real click.
How Yandex Direct's Reviewer Fetches a Landing Page
Yandex's own documentation names YaDirectFetcher as the crawler that downloads an advertiser's landing page to check its availability and topic before the ad runs — the direct equivalent of AdsBot-Google or AdIdxBot, but for Yandex Direct specifically.
That's a different product from YandexBot (Yandex's general search-indexing crawler) and from YandexDirect (a separate, publisher-side bot documented on the same page) — neither of those fetches advertiser landing pages for ad review, so a filter that only matches the word "Yandex" would either miss the real reviewer or wrongly divert genuine Yandex search traffic.
How Cloaking X Filters Yandex Direct Review Traffic
Cloaking X attributes YaDirectFetcher's user-agent in real time, at the edge, before the request reaches your money page — the reviewer sees your fallback page, a real click reaches your offer.
The same stream captures yclid (Yandex's click identifier) automatically, so your tracker keeps attributing the clicks that do reach your offer.
YaDirectFetcher Attribution
Recognizes Yandex Direct's own landing-page reviewer by its documented user-agent, distinct from YandexBot's general search crawl and YandexDirect's publisher-side bot.
Bot, VPN & Datacenter Filtering
IP intelligence flags datacenter, VPN, and proxy traffic alongside headless-browser and scripted-client signatures — not just the platform's own reviewer.
8 Delivery Modes
Proxy, 302 redirect, meta refresh, iframe, cross-origin iframe, JS redirect, click-reveal, or mirror — pick whichever fits your Yandex Direct tracking setup.
yclid Capture
Automatic click-ID capture for Yandex's yclid, alongside RedTrack/Voluum/Keitaro/Binom/Utmify if you're running a tracker in front of the stream.
Setting Up Yandex Ads in 3 Steps
- 1
Create a stream
Set your fallback page (or use the built-in generator) and your money page(s) for this campaign.
- 2
Choose a delivery mode
Most Yandex Direct streams run proxy or 302 redirect delivery — pick the mode that matches your setup.
- 3
Point your Yandex Direct landing page URL at the stream
Use the stream link (or your own domain, if you're on a plan with custom domains) as the ad's landing page URL.
Filter Yandex's Reviewers, Not Your Real Traffic
Start on the Free plan — one stream, 300 clicks/day, no time limit — and see how Yandex review traffic gets routed differently from real visitors.