Allow or block YandexAdditional on Webflow: robots.txt in Site settings

In Site settings → SEO → Indexing, add a “User-agent: YandexAdditional” group with “Disallow: /” to the robots.txt rules, save, and publish the site.

This response

You are ClaudeBot (Anthropic). Citable recognised you as an AI agent, so this is https://getcitable.in/crawlers/yandexadditional/webflow with the UI removed — the content only. A browser asking for the same address gets the full designed page.

YandexAdditional, and where Webflow keeps the rule

YandexAdditional is a crawler run by Yandex. It reads pages ahead of time, to train a model or to build an index.

Webflow builds robots.txt from the rules entered in Site settings, and publishes it with the site.

Step by step

What to paste

A group that names a crawler replaces the * group for that crawler; it does not add to it. Paths the * group closes are open to a crawler with its own group unless they are repeated there.

Refuse YandexAdditional:

User-agent: YandexAdditional
Disallow: /

Allow YandexAdditional:

User-agent: YandexAdditional
Allow: /

What trips people up

Saving is not publishing. The rule is in the setting as soon as it is saved and on the live site only after the next publish.

Asked, or actually refused?

Webflow gives a site owner robots.txt and nothing stronger: there is no setting that refuses a request by its user agent. robots.txt is a request. A crawler that honours it stays out; nothing in the file stops one that does not. What is enforced is what the server or the edge in front of it refuses.

Check it yourself

A 200 means the name is let through; a 403 means something in front of the page refuses it. This tests the name from your own address. A platform that checks a crawler’s address as well may treat the real YandexAdditional differently.

The request:

curl -I -A "YandexAdditional" https://your-site.example/

Questions

How do I block YandexAdditional on Webflow?

In Site settings → SEO → Indexing, add a “User-agent: YandexAdditional” group with “Disallow: /” to the robots.txt rules, save, and publish the site.

How do I allow YandexAdditional on Webflow?

A crawler that robots.txt does not name follows the * group, so YandexAdditional needs no rule to be allowed. To allow it by name, add the Allow block.

Can Webflow actually stop YandexAdditional, or only ask it?

Webflow gives a site owner robots.txt and nothing stronger: there is no setting that refuses a request by its user agent. robots.txt is a request. A crawler that honours it stays out; nothing in the file stops one that does not. What is enforced is what the server or the edge in front of it refuses.

Does a rule for YandexAdditional affect Googlebot or my Google rankings?

No. Googlebot goes by its own name and follows its own rules; a group or a firewall rule for YandexAdditional does not apply to it.

Checked against Webflow's own documentation on 1 October 2026

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About Citable

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Source: https://getcitable.in/crawlers/yandexadditional/webflow · Citable · Run the free audit · llms.txt · getcitable@gmail.com