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  "slug": "why-does-perplexity-summarize-our-competitors-author-pages-but-ignore-our-own",
  "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/why-does-perplexity-summarize-our-competitors-author-pages-but-ignore-our-own",
  "question": "Why does Perplexity summarize our competitors' author pages but ignore our own?",
  "description": "Discover why Perplexity might ignore your author pages while indexing competitors. Learn how to optimize your site structure and metadata for better visibility.",
  "summary": "Perplexity's AI indexing behavior often prioritizes sites with clear schema markup, high domain authority, and consistent internal linking structures. If your author pages are being ignored, it is likely due to crawl budget constraints, missing author schema, or a lack of clear signals that define your content's expertise and authority to the model.",
  "answer": "Perplexity prioritizes content that is easily discoverable and semantically structured. If your author pages are ignored, the AI may struggle to associate them with your core expertise. Ensure you have implemented proper Author Schema, maintain a clean internal linking structure, and verify that your robots.txt file allows access to these pages. Additionally, increasing the topical authority of your site through high-quality, consistent content can signal to Perplexity that your author pages are valuable assets worth indexing and summarizing in search results.",
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    "why does perplexity summarize our competitors' author pages but ignore our own",
    "perplexity indexing issues",
    "author page optimization",
    "ai search visibility"
  ],
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    "why is perplexity ignoring my site",
    "optimizing author pages for ai",
    "perplexity crawl budget",
    "improving ai search ranking"
  ],
  "entities": [
    "Perplexity",
    "Schema.org",
    "Search Engine Optimization",
    "Artificial Intelligence"
  ],
  "createdAt": "2026-01-27",
  "reviewedAt": "2026-04-29",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-28",
  "articleSection": "Technical Optimization",
  "tags": [
    "Technical Optimization",
    "Perplexity",
    "Schema.org",
    "Search Engine Optimization",
    "why does perplexity summarize our competitors' author pages but ignore our own",
    "perplexity indexing issues"
  ],
  "author": {
    "id": "trakkr-research",
    "name": "Trakkr Research",
    "role": "Research team",
    "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/authors/trakkr-research/"
  },
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      "title": "Brand Defense"
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    {
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    },
    {
      "slug": "platforms/perplexity",
      "title": "Perplexity Pages"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "slug": "technical-ai-visibility",
      "title": "Technical AI visibility setup for crawlers, schema, and discovery",
      "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/guides/technical-ai-visibility/"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
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      "label": "Google FAQPage structured data docs",
      "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/faqpage",
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    },
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      "label": "Google sitemap overview",
      "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/overview",
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