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Perplexity can only quote pages it can reach. It uses two different visitors for that.
PerplexityBot crawls the web so Perplexity can show and link sites in its answers. Perplexity says it is not used to train AI models. It follows your robots.txt.
Perplexity picks sources for its answer and links to them. A page PerplexityBot isn’t allowed to crawl can’t be added to that index.
When a user asks about a page, Perplexity-User may open it right away. Perplexity says this fetcher generally ignores robots.txt. So robots.txt alone can’t keep Perplexity out completely.
We fetch your robots.txt and your page once, as our own bot. We never pretend to be PerplexityBot, and we don’t ask Perplexity anything.
Real citation tracking means asking Perplexity questions, many times, every day. This free tool doesn’t do that. It checks the part you control: whether the door is open.
Add this group to the robots.txt in the root of your site:
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /A group named PerplexityBot replaces the group for all bots (User-agent: *) for PerplexityBot. So copy any Disallow lines you still want into this group too.
Do you use a firewall or a CDN bot shield? Allow the IP addresses Perplexity publishes there as well. Then run this check again.
Want to know if Perplexity names you? Ask it the questions your customers ask. Try a few wordings, because answers change.
Our free prompt generator writes those questions for you. Nothing is sent to an AI: you paste them into Perplexity yourself.
Get free prompts to test PerplexityCheck the referral report in your analytics for visits from Perplexity. That shows clicks, not how often you were named.
PerplexityBot does, Perplexity says. Perplexity-User, which opens pages when a user asks, generally ignores robots.txt. Both are described in Perplexity’s crawler docs.
No, according to Perplexity. It is there to show and link websites in Perplexity’s search results.
Perplexity says it can take up to 24 hours. Run this check right away to make sure the new rule itself is right.
Block PerplexityBot in robots.txt to stay out of its index. Perplexity-User generally ignores robots.txt, so stopping it takes a firewall rule. Perplexity publishes the IP addresses of both.
No. That would mean asking Perplexity lots of questions, and this free tool doesn’t do that. Use our prompt generator and ask Perplexity yourself.
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