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  "slug": "what-should-i-include-on-category-pages-so-perplexity-trusts-my-brand",
  "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/what-should-i-include-on-category-pages-so-perplexity-trusts-my-brand",
  "question": "What should I include on category pages so Perplexity trusts my brand?",
  "description": "Optimize your category pages for Perplexity by focusing on clear content hierarchy, structured data, and machine-readable formats to build AI answer engine trust.",
  "summary": "To build trust with Perplexity, category pages must prioritize clear content hierarchy, machine-readable schema markup, and objective descriptions. Using Trakkr allows you to monitor citation rates and ensure your brand remains a reliable source within AI-generated answers.",
  "answer": "To earn trust from Perplexity, your category pages must function as authoritative, machine-readable hubs of information. Prioritize a logical content hierarchy that allows AI crawlers to easily map the relationship between your categories and individual products or articles. Implement structured data to provide explicit context, and ensure your page content remains objective and factual to align with the requirements of an AI answer engine. By using Trakkr, you can verify if these technical optimizations lead to increased citation rates and monitor how the AI describes your brand across various search queries.",
  "keywords": [
    "what should i include on category pages so perplexity trusts my brand",
    "perplexity category page optimization",
    "ai answer engine trust",
    "perplexity citation strategy"
  ],
  "keywordVariants": [
    "what should i include on category pages so perplexity trusts my brand",
    "ai crawler visibility",
    "optimizing pages for perplexity",
    "improving ai search citations",
    "structured data for ai"
  ],
  "entities": [
    "Perplexity",
    "Trakkr",
    "LLM",
    "Structured Data",
    "AI Answer Engine"
  ],
  "createdAt": "2025-12-27",
  "reviewedAt": "2026-04-23",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-21",
  "articleSection": "Citation Intelligence",
  "tags": [
    "Citation Intelligence",
    "Perplexity",
    "Trakkr",
    "LLM",
    "what should i include on category pages so perplexity trusts my brand",
    "perplexity category page optimization"
  ],
  "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 Breadcrumb structured data docs",
      "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/breadcrumb",
      "type": "external-doc"
    },
    {
      "label": "Google robots.txt introduction",
      "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots/intro",
      "type": "external-doc"
    },
    {
      "label": "Google structured data introduction",
      "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/intro-structured-data",
      "type": "external-doc"
    },
    {
      "label": "Perplexity",
      "url": "https://www.perplexity.ai/",
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    },
    {
      "label": "Trakkr docs",
      "url": "https://trakkr.ai/learn/docs",
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  ]
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