Key facts
- Perplexity searches the web for almost every question and shows its sources.
- Recent, specific and well structured pages are cited often.
- Forums, review sites and publisher articles feature heavily in its sources.
- Changes to the pages it reads can change answers within days or weeks.
Step by step
- 1Allow PerplexityBot and Perplexity-User in robots.txt and your firewall.
- 2List your buyer questions and check which pages Perplexity cites for each.
- 3Study those pages: how they open, how deep they go, how recent they are.
- 4Publish a better answer: a direct opening, clear sections, facts with sources, a date and an author.
- 5Get mentioned on the cited third party pages, through reviews, listings, contributions and outreach.
- 6Re-check every week and note which changes moved the answer.
What Perplexity tends to cite
- Pages that answer the exact question in the first lines.
- Comparison tables and lists with specific details.
- Recently updated pages for fast changing topics.
- Community discussions that share first hand experience.
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