NodpickWhat is PerplexityBot?
PerplexityBot is the crawler Perplexity uses to build the search index behind its answers. Allowing it lets Perplexity retrieve and cite your pages. Blocking it in robots.txt keeps your content out of that index, which can reduce your chances of being named or linked in Perplexity answers.
Why it matters for visibility
Perplexity answers with live search and shows its sources. Pages it cannot crawl are less likely to appear among them. Sites that block all AI bots by default sometimes lose visibility here without realizing it.
Check your setup
Look for a PerplexityBot rule or a general rule for all agents in your robots.txt. The free checker shows the result for PerplexityBot and ten other AI crawlers.
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