Articles about "PerplexityBot"

Block GPTBot and ClaudeBot without killing search traffic. The 2026 robots.txt guide: which AI bots to block, which to allow, and the exact template to use.

Perplexity actually sends traffic through its citations. Learn how to get cited: crawler access, quotable content structure, authority signals, and measurement.

Should you block AI crawlers? Blocking training bots like GPTBot while allowing search bots is usually the smart middle path. Here's the honest 2026 guide.

Should you block PerplexityBot? The nuanced 2026 answer: allow it for cited referral traffic — Perplexity says it doesn't train models — unless you need a full opt-out from AI search.

Every verified AI crawler user agent in 2026 — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and more — with what each does and exact robots.txt controls.

Do AI crawlers like GPTBot and PerplexityBot read sitemap.xml? No company confirms it — but a clean, announced sitemap is still your cheapest path to AI discovery.

A practical robots.txt guide for Joomla and Drupal: where the file lives, which AI bots to block, copy-paste templates, testing tips, and .htaccess backup.

BigCommerce gives you a real robots.txt editor — but it has moved between interface versions. The current path, a store-ready AI-crawler file, and the traps that cost product pages their rankings.

PerplexityBot builds the index behind Perplexity citations and honors robots.txt. Perplexity-User fetches pages for people's questions and generally ignores it. Blocking the wrong one costs you traffic.

Learn to block AI crawlers on Django the reliable way: a root robots.txt file, separate staging rules, and log checks that prove bots stopped visiting.

Learn how to block AI crawlers on Framer even though you cannot edit robots.txt directly — use per-page meta tags and Cloudflare bot rules to protect your content.

Learn how to block AI crawlers on Weebly even though you cannot edit robots.txt directly. Hide pages, use meta tags, and block bots with Cloudflare.