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PerplexityBot

Updated 2026-05-17

PerplexityBot is Perplexity's web crawler. Perplexity's entire UX surfaces citations next to every answer, so allowing PerplexityBot is the single biggest move for getting traffic from Perplexity. Perplexity does not train on crawled content — PerplexityBot is for retrieval only.

Allow PerplexityBot

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

See also

Perplexity's retrieval index is built atop Bing — being in Bing Webmaster Tools is a prerequisite for Perplexity citation.

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