Free Perplexity visibility checker: does Perplexity cite you?
Find out whether Perplexity names your business in its answers, whether it cites your pages as sources, and which competitors and websites it relies on instead.
Free, and no card needed to see your score. Your audit checks Perplexity plus every other major engine, so you see the full picture.
A Perplexity visibility checker asks Perplexity your buyers' questions and records whether your brand is named, whether your pages are cited as sources, and which competitors and sites appear instead. Perplexity searches the web for nearly every answer and shows its sources, so being on the pages it cites is the most direct way in.
How Perplexity decides which brands to name
Knowing where the answer comes from tells you what to fix.
It searches for every answer
Perplexity is an answer engine. It looks up current web pages for nearly every question, then writes an answer from them, so what it can find today matters more than what a model learned in training.
Every answer shows its sources
Perplexity numbers its sources inline. That makes it the easiest engine to diagnose: you can see exactly which pages shaped the answer and whether yours is among them.
Its own crawler
PerplexityBot indexes pages so Perplexity can show and link them, and Perplexity-User fetches pages live for a user's question. Blocking them makes Perplexity less likely to cite you.
Fresh, specific pages
Perplexity favours pages that answer the question directly with specific, current facts. Clearly dated, recently updated pages with concrete detail are easier for it to quote.
How to check your Perplexity visibility by hand
You can run a first check yourself in about 15 minutes. Here is the method.
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Open a new thread
Start a fresh thread so earlier questions do not change the answer.
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Ask like a buyer
Ask a category question without naming your brand, for example "Best project management tools for remote agencies".
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Read the sources
Open the sources list. Note each domain cited, whether your site is one of them, and whether the cited pages mention you.
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Record the result
Write down whether you are named, your position, how you are described and which competitors and sources appear.
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Repeat and widen
Run each question a few times across 10 to 20 buyer questions. The sources that keep appearing are your outreach list.
Checking by hand is slow and hard to repeat fairly. The ONEGO audit asks the same questions consistently across all five engines and keeps the history, so you can see the trend.
Questions to test in Perplexity
Fill in the brackets with your category, customers and competitors. These six cover how buyers actually ask.
| Question to ask | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| What is the best [category] for [type of customer]? | The core recommendation question. Being named here is the prize. |
| [Competitor] alternatives | Buyers comparing options. Shows whether you are in the consideration set. |
| [Your brand] vs [competitor] | Shows how the engine describes you head to head, and whether it gets the facts right. |
| Best [category] in [city or country] | Essential for local and regional businesses. Answers change by location. |
| Is [your brand] good for [use case]? | Reveals the sentiment and the facts the engine holds about you. |
| How do I [problem your product solves]? | Problem led questions where engines may recommend a product as the answer. |
How to improve your Perplexity visibility
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Allow PerplexityBot
Allow PerplexityBot and Perplexity-User in robots.txt and in your firewall or CDN bot settings, so Perplexity can read and cite your pages.
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Answer the exact question
Lead each page with a direct answer, then specifics: prices, specs, locations, comparisons. Vague marketing copy rarely gets cited.
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Keep pages current
Show a last updated date and refresh key pages regularly. Outdated facts give Perplexity a reason to cite someone else.
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Earn a place on cited sources
The review sites, comparison articles and community threads Perplexity cites for your category are where a mention matters most.
Check every engine your buyers use
Many brands are strong in one engine and invisible in another. Check them all.
Perplexity visibility checker questions
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How does Perplexity choose its sources?
Why is my site never cited by Perplexity?
Does Perplexity use Google or Bing?
Is being cited the same as being recommended?
Perplexity is a trademark of its owner and is named here for identification only. ONEGO is independent and not affiliated with it. AI answers fluctuate, so any check is an indicative snapshot; see our disclaimer.
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