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Error
perplexitybot-blockedPerplexityBot can reach your site
What this check means
Checks whether your robots.txt denies PerplexityBot, the crawler operated by Perplexity, access to your site.
Why it matters
Perplexity cannot read or link to your pages. Perplexity shows links to its sources, so your site cannot appear in them.
How we detect it
We parse robots.txt per RFC 9309 and ask whether PerplexityBot is permitted to fetch "/". The most specific matching user-agent group wins, so a named PerplexityBot group replaces any wildcard rules rather than combining with them. A bare "Disallow:" permits everything and is not a block.
How to fix it
Remove the blanket "Disallow: /" from the group covering PerplexityBot, or add an explicit group permitting it: User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: /
Example
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Check whether this applies to your site.
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