robots.txt blocks PerplexityBot (Perplexity live search)

PerplexityBot is the main crawler Perplexity uses to index content for its AI search answers, which typically cite and link their sources directly. This check found a robots.txt rule disallowing PerplexityBot across the whole site. That means none of Perplexity's live answers can currently reference or link to your pages. Perplexity is one of the largest AI search engines by query volume, and it's unusual among AI tools for explicitly citing where its answers come from, which makes it a genuine referral-traffic source, not just a training input. Blocking PerplexityBot removes that possibility entirely. Your developer needs about 10 minutes. Remove the PerplexityBot Disallow rule for / (the whole site) in robots.txt. Afterwards, fetch robots.txt directly to confirm the rule is gone, since some CDNs cache the old version briefly after a change is published.