Yandex Update
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The traffic from my website significantly decreased from Yandex last month.
Was their a major update?
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I'm pretty sure it was February, when Yandex announced that they will no longer be using links as an SEO ranking factor. This was expected to hit March this year sometime - I am guessing this will be what has happened.
-Andy
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