Website discovery
Perplexity
Perplexity publishes crawler guidance for sites that want their public pages available for search results and citations.
Why it matters
Check Perplexity when customers research or compare providers and the cited sources lack current details about your business. An accessible page with those details gives the search engine a current source it can consider.
Step by step
Check your priority pages
Open your key service, location, and contact pages as a visitor. Confirm the content is public and the business details are easy to find in text.
Review access for PerplexityBot
Ask your web administrator to check robots.txt for PerplexityBot and confirm the firewall or CDN permits the crawler from the official published IP ranges.
Recognize the separate user fetcher
Perplexity-User can retrieve pages in response to a user request. Review it separately in the crawler documentation if you maintain allowlists or see blocked requests.
Monitor citations and referral traffic
Check a small set of business-relevant questions and open the cited sources. Use analytics to track observable referrals to your own pages.
Check the result
Confirm the crawler can reach the intended public pages and record where you can verify it. Crawl access supports discovery. The search engine chooses which sources to cite.