Question
How to appear in Perplexity answers
To be cited by Perplexity, let PerplexityBot crawl you, publish a clear quotable answer per page, and make the page easy to extract. Perplexity favors sources it can fetch cleanly and that directly answer the query.
Step 1 — Allow the crawler
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /Step 2 — Be the cleanest answer
- Put the question in the title and H1.
- Answer in the first sentence, specifically.
- Add a table or ranked list Perplexity can lift.
Step 3 — Verify access
grep -i 'PerplexityBot' /var/log/your-access.log | awk '{print $7}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | headStep 4 — Index fast
Submit new and updated URLs through IndexNow so Perplexity's sources reflect your latest pages sooner.
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