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Discovery

HIGH

PerplexityBot allowed

robots.txt permits PerplexityBot (Perplexity's shopping index crawler) at the site root. Perplexity's shopping recommendations are built from pages PerplexityBot was permitted to crawl.

What this check looks for

PerplexityBot builds Perplexity's shopping index from your live pages. A `Disallow` rule in a matching group — explicit or via an inheriting wildcard — removes you from Perplexity's recommendations. Per RFC 9309 §2.2.1, the most-specific User-agent group wins, so an explicit `User-agent: PerplexityBot` group with `Allow: /` overrides a restrictive wildcard.

Which AI surfaces it affects

  • Perplexity100
  • ChatGPT (ACP)0
  • Google AI Mode (UCP)0
  • Microsoft Copilot0
  • Meta AI0

Weighted against the live specs — ACP 2026-04-17, UCP 2026-04-08.

How to fix it

Allow PerplexityBot in robots.txt

Shopify

A few minutes
  1. Online Store → Themes → Edit code → templates/robots.txt.liquid.
  2. Add a `User-agent: PerplexityBot` group with `Allow: /`.

Platform docs ↗

BigCommerce

A few minutes
  1. Storefront → SEO → robots.txt.
  2. Add a `User-agent: PerplexityBot` group with `Allow: /`.

WooCommerce

A few minutes
  1. Yoast SEO → Tools → File editor → robots.txt (or All in One SEO → Robots.txt Editor).
  2. Add a `User-agent: PerplexityBot` group with `Allow: /`.

Custom / headless

A few minutes
  1. Edit robots.txt to add an explicit PerplexityBot group with Allow: /.
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

The spec it's pinned to

  • Perplexity bots — PerplexityBot

    Perplexity's bots documentation lists PerplexityBot as the user-agent for its index crawler. Pages PerplexityBot is denied are absent from Perplexity's shopping recommendations.

Perplexity bots

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