Can Perplexity access your website?
Perplexity AI uses PerplexityBot to crawl the web. To check if Perplexity can read your content:
Quick check with UltraScout
Use the free AI SEO Score tool — it automatically scans your robots.txt for:
User-agent: PerplexityBot- Any blocking directives
Manual check
Visit https://yourdomain.com/robots.txt and search for:
User-agent: PerplexityBot- If followed by
Disallow: /— Perplexity is blocked - If followed by
Allow: /— Perplexity is allowed - If missing — Perplexity follows default rules (usually allowed)
How to allow PerplexityBot
Add to your robots.txt:
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /Why it matters
Perplexity AI serves hundreds of millions of monthly searches and always retrieves live web content for its answers. If PerplexityBot can't access your site, your content will never appear in Perplexity answers — regardless of how authoritative or relevant it is.
How to block PerplexityBot (if needed)
User-agent: PerplexityBot
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