Perplexity · search index
Is PerplexityBot blocked on your site?
PerplexityBot is Perplexity’s search index token for Perplexity, and whether it reaches you is decided by one line in your robots.txt. This is the crawler that builds Perplexity’s index. Blocking it takes you out of the pool its answers are drawn from.
- Major crawler weight
- PerplexityBot robots.txt token
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Phase 2 adds the parts that rank: the exact allow and block snippets for PerplexityBot, what Perplexity publishes about it, the CDN and plugin defaults that block it without telling you, and how it differs from the vendor’s other tokens.
This page is noindex until that lands, and it is not in the sitemap.