Does Perplexity cite you?
Not a score someone modeled: we ask Perplexity real questions, store the answers, and count who it cited. If the answer is no, the audit says no, with the sample behind it.
Free, no sign-up. One crawl of your public pages by our self-identifying bot. Nothing is written to your site.
We keep the anonymous result to build an industry benchmark. No personal data is collected, and your individual result is never published.
Nothing here chases you. No follow-up sequence, no “strategy session” booked on your behalf, and no email field on this form, so there is nothing we could send you even if we wanted to. You get the whole result, including every failure we find. If you want a human to read it with you, you have to come and ask for one, and that offer sells nothing.
How Perplexity decides who gets cited
- Perplexity is the most citation-forward engine we measure: nearly every answer lists its sources inline. That makes it the fastest place to see whether AI search knows you exist.
- It crawls with PerplexityBot and fetches pages at answer time. Your robots.txt decides whether it can read you at all, so the audit checks that first.
- Because citations are explicit, your competitors' share of them is explicit too. We measure who wins the citations on the questions your buyers ask.
What we measure on Perplexity
We sample Perplexity with real buyer-shaped prompts, store each answer, and count cited domains: yours and everyone else's. Perplexity is the one engine measured on every plan, including Starter.
Perplexity citation sampling is measured on every plan, Starter included. See plans
Measurement IntegrityVerified⌄
We measure your visibility. We never manufacture it. Each guarantee below is enforced in code, not just promised:
- Self-identifying crawler. Our crawler names itself (SEOAIO, seoaio.ai/bot) so you can exclude it from your analytics.
- No manufactured citations. A citation is counted only when the AI engine returns it. We never inject your URL to inflate a score.
- Elicited-probe method, disclosed. Answer Share is measured by asking engines a fixed, disclosed prompt set — never dressed up as organic traffic.
- Measured vs Modeled, always labeled. Every number is stamped measured, modeled, or mixed. We never show a single Measured number over a modeled part.
- Honest confidence bands. Answer Share ships with a 95% confidence interval (Wilson) and its sample size. A small sample shows a wide band, not false precision.
- No engagement manufacturing. We measure your visibility. We never pay to seed prompts or manufacture the metric we report.
Perplexity visibility FAQ
Why start with Perplexity?
Because it cites almost every claim, so measurement is unambiguous and cheap enough to include on the Starter plan. If AI search is sending your market anywhere, Perplexity shows it first and most legibly.
Can you make Perplexity cite my site?
No, and neither can anyone selling that promise. What we do is measure whether it cites you today, show the exact answers, and rank the fixable gaps on your pages that cited rules say matter. Measured standing, predicted gains, clearly labeled as each.
What if Perplexity never cites my industry at all?
Then the audit says so with the sample behind it. A measured zero is a finding: it tells you whether the gap is your site or your whole category, which changes what you should do next.
Also measured: Google AI Overviews · ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini (not yet)
One audit covers every engine we measure.
Free, no sign-up, and honest about what it could not measure. Run it and read the exact answers behind your numbers.