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PerplexityBot blocked in robots.txt (HTML project)

What this means

Section titled “What this means”

Orino found Disallow: / under User-agent: PerplexityBot in your project’s robots.txt file. Perplexity.ai is one of the highest-citation-volume AI search engines. Blocking PerplexityBot makes your content invisible to every Perplexity query once deployed, regardless of how relevant it is.

This check runs during disk-only audits — when Orino scans a plain HTML project without fetching a live URL. It reads the robots.txt file directly from your project directory.

How to fix it

Section titled “How to fix it”

Open robots.txt in your project root and remove the PerplexityBot block:

# Remove these lines
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

To allow PerplexityBot site-wide, delete both lines. To restrict specific paths:

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/

Verify the fix

Section titled “Verify the fix”

Check the file in your project:

Terminal window
grep -A 3 "PerplexityBot" robots.txt

No output means PerplexityBot falls back to your wildcard rules. Disallow: / means the block is still active. Re-run orino audit to confirm the check passes.

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