It's like Google for Eastern European/Russian speaking countries
You can get a lot of traffic from there, but it a mostly Russian speaking traffic
are they really using Yandex for searches ?
so they are RU
and SEOing of an EN website for the RU search engine is not worth it?
Well whether you like it or not, wheter you will do optimizations or not yandex will still hit your website and it will hit it hard.... Google does like 3 queries a day (on my website) and yandex does from 30 to 70 queries (yes that many) and mostly it tries to hit pages that dont even exist on my website. If anything i would suggest BLOCKING it
Who searches English text on Russian search engine, anyway?not worth it if the site is in English
You need Rusian site. maybe make russian version for your site?
it;s like baidu, it's worth it if you need china traffic.
why not try other search engine, duck duck go seem good