PerplexityBot: What It Does and How to Control It
Perplexity's crawler that maintains the search index behind its AI answer engine. Perplexity documents it as controllable through robots.txt.
What happens if you allow or block it
Your pages can be indexed and cited in the vendor's search and AI answers.
your content stops being used as a source for Perplexity's answers.
The robots.txt rule
This is the exact rule auditme.dev publishes for PerplexityBot:
User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: / Disallow: /auth/ /_next/ /private/ /dashboard /settings /profile Disallow: ... (25 more paths)
The full path list lives in our robots.txt.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is PerplexityBot allowed on auditme.dev?
Yes. Our robots.txt explicitly allows PerplexityBot to crawl public pages while keeping private areas (auth, dashboard, internal APIs) disallowed.
Does blocking PerplexityBot hurt Google rankings?
No. PerplexityBot is Perplexity's crawler and works independently from Googlebot. Blocking it never changes your Google rankings — it only changes your content stops being used as a source for Perplexity's answers.
How do I allow or block PerplexityBot on my own site?
Add a "User-agent: PerplexityBot" block to your robots.txt with Allow or Disallow rules, then verify the file parses correctly.