Unlike other LLMs, Perplexity is designed to gather information directly from the live web. The LLM processes over 26 million queries per day, delivering fast, AI-generated answers with cited sources. If your content isn’t being cited, it isn’t being shown to users.
Perplexity Optimization FAQ
Perplexity is designed around real-time web search for synthesized answers. Unlike most LLMs (which rely on static training data), Perplexity actively retrieves up-to-date content to answer user queries.
Additionally, Perplexity cites sources incredibly transparently, allowing users to see exactly where the answers to their questions are coming from. As a brand, this should be seen as a direct opportunity to appear in front of high-intent users.
Perplexity is already being used by 22 million users each month as a faster, more direct way to research products, services, and information. If your brand doesn’t appear in Perplexity’s answers (or worse, if only your competitors do) you run the risk of missing out on visibility at critical moments of user discovery and vital decision-making.
Outside of using a reliable AI search monitoring and visibility tool like Goodie, here are a few tips for how to optimize content for Perplexity:
To see if a website's pages are being cited, you need an AI Visibility tool (Goodie). This is because there isn't a public "Perplexity analytics" dashboard.
An AI attribution tool will give you insight into how often and in which prompts your site is getting cited. Goodie goes a step further than just showing visibility, as it gives insight into how to optimize key pages for: technical, content, and outreach opportunities.
Ways to increase the chances that Perplexity mentions your brand by name include: owning your category narrative, using structured data and consistent naming, strengthening third-party signals, and keeping information accurate and up to date.
To get information on the hourly changes to your brand's presence in Perplexity responses, you can use Goodie.