Is Perplexity recommending your brand?

Why Perplexity visibility matters

Perplexity built its brand on cited answers, and its users are exactly the research-heavy buyers who compare before they purchase. When Perplexity recommends a brand, the receipts are right there in the footnotes.

That transparency cuts both ways: every Perplexity answer that skips you names the exact pages that beat you. That's not just a score — it's a to-do list.

How Perplexity decides what to recommend

• Citation-first: every claim traces to a live source. If no citable page says you're great at X, Perplexity won't either.

• Source diversity: answers blend authority sites, comparison articles, community threads (Reddit and friends), and official docs.

• Recency bias: Perplexity favors fresh sources — an up-to-date comparison page can enter answers quickly.

What SearchByAI checks

• The questions your buyers actually ask, run live against Perplexity — by name, by category, by problem, and by comparison.
• Honest brand detection: echoing your name doesn't count; same-name confusion doesn't count; the score reflects real recognition.
• Receipts on everything: every score opens to the full stored answer, so you can read exactly what buyers are being told.
• The fixes: a ranked action plan, show-me-how workshops, and downloadable finished files (llms.txt, schema, robots.txt, sitemap).

Perplexity checks are included in every SearchByAI plan — including the free audit and the free any-domain check.

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