Why was Yandex selected as one of the three search engines to submit to? It ignores every robots file and rule you set.
I have them blocked several different ways in my htaccess file and robots.txt file and they STILL ignore all the rules set for them. This is one of the worst bots out there. Am I missing something?

Yandex is a Russian Internet company which operates the largest search engine in Russia with about 60% market share in that country. It also develops a number of Internet-based services and products. Wikipedia

Stock price: YNDX (NASDAQ)$43.14-0.01 (-0.02%)
Headquarters: The Hague
Founded: 2000

http://www.coffeecup.com/forums/sitemapper/why-yandex/

I know who they are, Scott. It's their blatant disregard for the robots file that irks me and many other site owners.
China's Baidu spider is just as bad. totally ignores robots file and bashes through forbidden directories unless you outright ban the thing. Both are favored by spammers who like to hit forums and try to sell drugs and counterfeit handbags and shoes

I have not had any issues like that. They have always not indexed whatever I setup.

http://help.yandex.com/webmaster/contro … ts-txt.xml

Consider yourself lucky.