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  "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/why-is-perplexity-citing-low-quality-sources-instead-of-our-primary-integration-pages",
  "question": "Why is Perplexity citing low-quality sources instead of our primary integration pages?",
  "description": "Discover why Perplexity citation sources may overlook your integration pages and learn how to use Trakkr to diagnose and improve your AI platform visibility.",
  "summary": "Perplexity prioritizes content based on authority and technical accessibility. Trakkr helps you identify why your integration pages are overlooked and provides actionable diagnostics to ensure your primary assets are cited correctly by AI answer engines.",
  "answer": "Perplexity citation logic prioritizes sources that offer high relevance, authority, and machine-readable clarity. If your integration pages are overlooked, it is often due to a lack of structured data or technical signals that help the model verify your content as the definitive answer. By using Trakkr, you can monitor how Perplexity frames your brand and identify specific gaps in your page-level content. This diagnostic approach allows you to align your technical documentation with the specific prompts users enter, ensuring your integration pages are prioritized over lower-quality sources in AI-generated responses.",
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    "ai platform citation intelligence",
    "perplexity source quality"
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    "perplexity citation sources",
    "ai answer engine optimization",
    "improving ai platform visibility",
    "perplexity crawler diagnostics"
  ],
  "entities": [
    "Perplexity",
    "Trakkr",
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    "Citation intelligence",
    "Crawler diagnostics"
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  "createdAt": "2025-12-17",
  "reviewedAt": "2026-04-29",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-29",
  "articleSection": "Citation Intelligence",
  "tags": [
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    "Perplexity",
    "Trakkr",
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  "author": {
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    "name": "Trakkr Research",
    "role": "Research team",
    "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/authors/trakkr-research/"
  },
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    {
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    {
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      "title": "Perplexity Pages"
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    {
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      "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",
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      "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots/intro",
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      "label": "Perplexity",
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