Search intent
Users want to know whether blocking Perplexity affects AI answer visibility.
Practical checklist
- Perplexity documents separate crawler controls and says changes may take time to reflect.
- PerplexityBot is the indexing bot most sites will configure.
- Perplexity-User is user-triggered and should be considered separately.
Copy-paste starter pattern
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Allow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-User Allow: / User-agent: Claude-SearchBot Allow: / User-agent: Claude-User Allow: / User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: / User-agent: Perplexity-User Allow: / User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: / User-agent: Google-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: Applebot-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: / User-agent: FacebookBot Disallow: / User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: / User-agent: cohere-ai Disallow: / User-agent: * Allow: / Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml