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robots.txt blocks PerplexityBot

Your robots.txt disallows PerplexityBot across the whole site, so it cannot read or cite any of your pages.

Why it matters

If this is intentional (privacy, training opt-out) that's fine. If you want AI citations, this prevents them.

Example fix

# robots.txt — let PerplexityBot crawl the site
User-agent: perplexitybot
Allow: /

# ...or block only specific sections instead of everything:
# User-agent: perplexitybot
# Disallow: /admin/

Authoritative reference

https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot

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