PerplexityBot finds content for Perplexity's source-oriented search and links it in answers. Perplexity also documents further crawlers such as Perplexity-User for user-triggered retrieval.
To appear as a source in Perplexity, allow the bot:
User-agent: PerplexityBotAllow: /
Perplexity is strongly source-oriented and presents answers with visible source links. This makes the platform particularly useful for observing Citation Rate measures the share of relevant AI answers in which a website is linked or named as a source. It is a monitoring metric, not an official ranking factor.Open glossary entry →, linked source domains and answer position. If PerplexityBot is the crawler documented by Perplexity, intended to make websites visible in Perplexity search results and link them as a source. According to Perplexity, it is not used to train foundation models.Open glossary entry → is allowed in The robots.txt is a publicly accessible text file in a site's root directory. It tells crawlers which URLs they may fetch and therefore controls crawling.Open glossary entry → but blocked by a firewall or A content delivery network (CDN) is a network of distributed servers that delivers static content closer to the user, reducing loading times.Open glossary entry → with status code 403, content is still missing. A look at the server logs reveals the actual access.