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PerplexityBot blocked in robots.txt

What this means

Section titled “What this means”

Your robots.txt blocks PerplexityBot with Disallow: /. Perplexity.ai is one of the highest-citation-volume AI search engines — it surfaces sources prominently and users click through. Blocking PerplexityBot makes your content invisible to every Perplexity query, regardless of how relevant it is.

How to fix it

Section titled “How to fix it”

Remove the PerplexityBot block from your robots.txt:

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

Delete those two lines to allow PerplexityBot site-wide. To exclude specific paths only:

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

Verify the fix

Section titled “Verify the fix”

After deploying:

Terminal window
curl -s https://yourdomain.com/robots.txt | grep -A 3 "PerplexityBot"

No result 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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