Question
What is Perplexity-User vs PerplexityBot?
PerplexityBot is Perplexity's index crawler; Perplexity-User is the live-fetch agent that retrieves a page in real time when a user's question needs it. Allow both to be discoverable and quotable in Perplexity answers.
The difference
- PerplexityBot: systematic crawling that builds Perplexity's index.
- Perplexity-User: on-demand fetch triggered by a specific user query.
Allow both
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /Why live fetch matters
Even before PerplexityBot indexes you, a user asking about your topic can trigger Perplexity-User to fetch and cite your page. Quotable, crawlable pages get picked up faster.
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