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Error perplexitybot-blocked

PerplexityBot 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 crawl or cite your pages, and it is among the most citation-heavy AI answer engines.

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: /

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