How to Block PerplexityBot in robots.txt
Exact robots.txt syntax to block PerplexityBot from crawling your site for Perplexity AI's search index.
robots.txt Syntax — Block PerplexityBot
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User-agent: PerplexityBot Disallow: /
What This Does
Blocking PerplexityBot prevents your content from being used in AI training datasets. This does not remove existing knowledge — it only prevents future crawling. Content already in training datasets before you add this block is not retroactively removed.
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