SEO glossary

PerplexityBot

Perplexity’s crawler, which indexes pages so they can be surfaced and cited in Perplexity answers.

Perplexity also uses Perplexity-User for pages fetched on a user’s request. Blocking PerplexityBot makes a site much less likely to appear as a source in Perplexity.

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