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  "slug": "how-do-i-audit-whether-perplexity-can-crawl-my-shopify-site",
  "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/how-do-i-audit-whether-perplexity-can-crawl-my-shopify-site",
  "question": "How do I audit whether Perplexity can crawl my Shopify site?",
  "description": "Learn how to audit Perplexity crawler access on your Shopify store using Trakkr. Verify AI visibility, identify technical blocks, and optimize for citations.",
  "summary": "Auditing Perplexity's access to your Shopify site requires monitoring specific AI crawler behavior. Use Trakkr to diagnose technical visibility issues and ensure your product data is correctly ingested for AI-generated answers.",
  "answer": "To audit whether Perplexity can crawl your Shopify site, you must move beyond standard SEO tools and focus on AI-specific crawler diagnostics. Trakkr enables you to monitor how Perplexity interacts with your domain, identifying if specific product pages are being blocked or ignored. By tracking citation rates and AI-sourced traffic, you can verify if your content is successfully appearing in AI answers. Use these technical insights to adjust your robots.txt settings and implement machine-readable formats, ensuring that Perplexity can reliably discover, parse, and cite your store content during user queries.",
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    "how do i audit whether perplexity can crawl my shopify site",
    "audit perplexity crawl shopify",
    "perplexity crawler access",
    "shopify ai visibility"
  ],
  "keywordVariants": [
    "how do i audit whether perplexity can crawl my shopify site",
    "perplexity site audit",
    "check perplexity indexing shopify",
    "ai crawler access shopify",
    "verify perplexity citations"
  ],
  "entities": [
    "Perplexity",
    "Shopify",
    "Trakkr",
    "robots.txt",
    "AI crawler"
  ],
  "createdAt": "2026-02-11",
  "reviewedAt": "2026-04-22",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-21",
  "articleSection": "Citation Intelligence",
  "tags": [
    "Citation Intelligence",
    "Perplexity",
    "Shopify",
    "Trakkr",
    "how do i audit whether perplexity can crawl my shopify site",
    "audit perplexity crawl shopify"
  ],
  "author": {
    "id": "trakkr-research",
    "name": "Trakkr Research",
    "role": "Research team",
    "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/authors/trakkr-research/"
  },
  "collections": [
    {
      "slug": "collections/citations",
      "title": "Citation Intelligence"
    },
    {
      "slug": "collections/technical",
      "title": "Technical Optimization"
    },
    {
      "slug": "platforms/perplexity",
      "title": "Perplexity Pages"
    }
  ],
  "guides": [
    {
      "slug": "citation-audits",
      "title": "How to audit citations, sources, and answer grounding",
      "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/guides/citation-audits/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "technical-ai-visibility",
      "title": "Technical AI visibility setup for crawlers, schema, and discovery",
      "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/guides/technical-ai-visibility/"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Google robots.txt introduction",
      "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots/intro",
      "type": "external-doc"
    },
    {
      "label": "Google sitemap overview",
      "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/overview",
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    },
    {
      "label": "Perplexity",
      "url": "https://www.perplexity.ai/",
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    },
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      "label": "llms.txt specification",
      "url": "https://llmstxt.org/",
      "type": "standard"
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    {
      "label": "Trakkr docs",
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