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What are the specific content guidelines I need to follow if I want my brand to be cited as a primary source by Perplexity AI?

ChatGPTgpt-62 queries11/1/2026
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The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.

SEED QUERY
What are the specific content guidelines I need to follow if I want my brand to be cited as a primary source by Perplexity AI?
2 real searches · 1 real-search pass
Perplexity official publisher guidelines how to get cited primary source content recommendations crawler robots.txt citationsGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDInstruction
Perplexity help center publishers citations sources content guidelines officialGoogle ↗
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 (2)
Short factOther / navigational50%ComparisonConsequenceReasonDefinitionInstruction50%Yes / no

Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 2 of 2 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.

Searches and sources

ChatGPT2 real searches · gpt-6
Perplexity official publisher guidelines how to get cited primary source content recommendations crawler robots.txt citations Google ↗
Perplexity help center publishers citations sources content guidelines official Google ↗

Queries

2 queries · click a column to sort
Query / typeSearchIntentQuery classRouting formatClusterFreq ↓Weight
Perplexity official publisher guidelines how to get cited primary source content recommendations crawler robots.txt citations
OBSERVED
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—Instruction——1x
of 1
Perplexity help center publishers citations sources content guidelines official
OBSERVED
Google ↗
AI Mode ↗
—Other / navigational——1x
of 1