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What are the current best practices for structuring data on a news website to maximize our chances of being cited by Perplexity Pro?

ChatGPTgpt-63 queries11/1/2026
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The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.

SEED QUERY
What are the current best practices for structuring data on a news website to maximize our chances of being cited by Perplexity Pro?
3 real searches · 1 real-search pass
Perplexity publisher guidance news websites crawler indexing citations structured data robots.txt sitemap 2026Google ↗
OBSERVEDOther / navigational
PerplexityBot documentation publisher FAQ citations search ranking source attributionGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDReason
Google Search Central Article NewsArticle structured data best practices news sitemap 2026Google ↗
OBSERVEDOther / navigational

Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.

Query classes

Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.

ChatGPT real searches (3)
Short factOther / navigational67%ComparisonConsequenceReason33%DefinitionInstructionYes / no

Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 3 of 3 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.

Searches and sources

ChatGPT3 real searches · gpt-6
Perplexity publisher guidance news websites crawler indexing citations structured data robots.txt sitemap 2026 Google ↗
PerplexityBot documentation publisher FAQ citations search ranking source attribution Google ↗
Google Search Central Article NewsArticle structured data best practices news sitemap 2026 Google ↗

Queries

3 queries · click a column to sort
Query / typeSearchIntentQuery classRouting formatClusterFreq ↓Weight
Perplexity publisher guidance news websites crawler indexing citations structured data robots.txt sitemap 2026
OBSERVED
Google ↗
AI Mode ↗
—Other / navigational——1x
of 1
PerplexityBot documentation publisher FAQ citations search ranking source attribution
OBSERVED
Google ↗
AI Mode ↗
—Reason——1x
of 1
Google Search Central Article NewsArticle structured data best practices news sitemap 2026
OBSERVED
Google ↗
AI Mode ↗
—Other / navigational——1x
of 1