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What is PerplexityBot?

Perplexity's index crawler. Answers include citations, and this bot is how your pages get into that index.

How this helps you show up

If you want Perplexity to recommend or cite you, this bot needs a clean 200 response. Strong headlines and factual opening paragraphs matter because the answer often pulls from the top of the page.

If it cannot reach your page

Perplexity answers without you in the source list — your competitor's page may sit there instead.

The facts

robots.txt token
PerplexityBot
Owner
Perplexity
Product it serves
Perplexity
Category
retrieval — indexed so an answer can cite it
Training opt-out
Retrieval / user fetch — usually keep open for citations
User agent as sent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)

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