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Attensira asks Perplexity your buyers' questions every day and records whether it names you, which pages it links and who it names instead, each with its sample size. On our own questions it cited publishers, roundups and LinkedIn posts most, so the crew works on being in those pages, not only on your own. You approve what ships.

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Answer · Perplexityasked

Question: does my website show up in Perplexity

Perplexity answered: I’m not sure from the current results whether your specific site is cited by Perplexity. Here are quick checks you can do: Visit perplexity.ai and ask a relevant question that your site should answer; look for citations at the bottom and see if your URL is listed. … Ensure PerplexityBot can access your site (check robots.txt to allow PerplexityBot). If blocked, your site won’t be crawled or cited. Improve crawlability and trust signals (sitemap, structured data, fresh content, authoritative backlinks).

Sources cited

  1. 1greaterthanservices.com
  2. 2trysight.ai
  3. 3seodiscovery.com
  4. 4semrush.com
  5. 5keyword.com
  6. 6ritnerdigital.com
  7. +4 more

Not namedAttensira is missing from this Perplexity answer.

Researcher agentResearcher · watches the sources answers citeattensira.com workspace · Attensira MCP · · excerpt of 1 of 3 samples

What does Attensira read in Perplexity?

Perplexity is read from a browser in each market you add. Every answer is stored with the pages it linked. On our own questions the pages it leaned on were publishers, roundups and LinkedIn posts, not vendor docs, so its next move is usually placement, not a page edit.

of answers named Attensira
4.3%
90 of n=2,100 answers
answers cited an attensira.com page
77
n=2,100 answers
attensira.com workspace, 61 tracked questions, Attensira MCP · to

Which pages does Perplexity cite for our questions?

Each number is citations: one cited link in one stored answer, counted across the window. The crew starts from Attensira's default rule for Perplexity, below, and switches to a workspace's own history once it has 20 reads on a source. Compare the rule with the ranking beside it, from our own workspace.

Attensira's default rule for Perplexity (docs)
Threads, YouTube and roundups
Default first move
Be in the thread or roundup

Deciding sources in the docs

Most-cited domains · Perplexitycitations across n=2,100 answers
  1. 1semrush.com571
  2. 2linkedin.com560
  3. 3blog.hubspot.com456
  4. 4seranking.com313
  5. 5rankability.com300
Stored answers from 4 Sep 2026, attensira.com workspace, Attensira MCP · · n=2,100 answers

What does Perplexity publish about its crawlers?

Blocking PerplexityBot keeps your site out of Perplexity's results, and Perplexity says it is not used to crawl content for training.

Perplexity's crawlers
PerplexityBot
Surfaces and links sites in search results; not for training
Perplexity-User
Visits a page when someone asks a question; generally ignores robots.txt
Perplexity: Perplexity crawlers (read 4 Oct 2026)

How do you get cited by Perplexity?

What the crew works on first in Perplexity, in order.

Measured
Before and after each change, on the same prompts
Ships when
You approve it (Draft mode is the default)
Project plan · Perplexity4 steps
  1. 01

    Allow PerplexityBot in robots.txt.

  2. 02

    Find the roundups and threads Perplexity cites for your questions, and be in them.

  3. 03

    Publish on LinkedIn and YouTube where your buyers ask, not only on your blog.

  4. 04

    Answer the question in the first paragraph of the page, with the facts it can link.

Chief of staff agentChief of staff · orders the workExample · the order the crew usually works in on Perplexity

How does Perplexity decide which brands to name?

Perplexity answers by searching and linking the pages it read. Its crawler page describes PerplexityBot as the crawler that surfaces and links websites in Perplexity's search results, and says it is not used to train foundation models. Perplexity-User visits a page when someone asks a question and may include a link to it in the answer.

Because every answer is built from pages it found, being in Perplexity is mostly a question of being on the pages it finds: the thread, the roundup, the comparison, the video. In our own readings, the domains it cited most were a mix of SEO publishers, LinkedIn and review sites, not vendor docs.

What it leans on

  • Pages PerplexityBot has indexed
  • Roundups and 'best of' lists
  • LinkedIn posts, Reddit threads and YouTube videos
  • Review sites such as G2

How it tends to answer

  • Shows its sources next to every answer
  • Builds lists from roundups it found
  • Changes its answer as the pages it finds change

Why does Perplexity matter for your brand?

  • Every answer links its sources, so the pages that decide it are visible.
  • Its sources are mostly third-party pages, which is placement work, not page edits.
  • Its answers move as the pages it finds move, so a daily reading catches it.

What does one Perplexity reading record?

How it is read
From perplexity.ai in a browser, in each market you add, with every page the answer links stored beside it. The API is only a labelled fallback, for when the browser cannot be read.
Named or not
Whether the answer names your brand, and where in the answer. Across readings that is your mention rate.
Cited pages
Every page the answer cites, yours and everyone else's. Across readings that is your citation rate and the sources that decide the answer.
Who instead
The competitors named in your place, so share of voice is measured on the same answers as yours.
Tone
How the answer talks about you. Sentiment is read from the same stored answer, never a separate guess.
Which engines each plan reads, in the docs

Questions about Perplexity

Does Attensira track Perplexity?
Yes. Perplexity is read every day on every plan, for each prompt you track and in each market you add. Each reading records whether Perplexity named you, which pages it cited and the tone, and every rate carries its sample size. A change inside the noise is reported as no change.
How does Perplexity choose its sources?
It searches for each question and links the pages it used. PerplexityBot indexes pages for its search results, and Perplexity-User fetches a page when someone asks. A page that is not reachable by PerplexityBot is unlikely to be linked.
Does blocking PerplexityBot stop training on my content?
Perplexity says PerplexityBot is not used to crawl content for AI foundation models. Blocking it removes your site from Perplexity's search results; it does not change training, because that is not what it is used for.
Why does Perplexity cite LinkedIn and Reddit so often?
Because those pages often answer the question as asked, in plain language, and they are easy for its search to find. In our own readings (4 Sep – 3 Oct 2026, 23 days read), linkedin.com was one of the three domains Perplexity cited most.
What does the crew do when Perplexity cites a roundup without you?
It marks the roundup as a deciding source with the next move 'get listed' or 'pitch', and drafts the pitch to the author from your own mailbox for you to approve. For a Reddit or forum thread it drafts a disclosed reply for you to post yourself.
Why do ChatGPT and Perplexity cite different pages?
They search differently. On our own 61 questions (4 Sep – 3 Oct 2026, 23 days read), ChatGPT's most-cited domains were vendor docs, while Perplexity's were SEO publishers, LinkedIn and review sites. That is why each engine gets its own next move.

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