Status: Approved
Website fix: let PerplexityBot read your Swiss site
From Site check · ridgewell.example/ch/ · 37 key pages · owner Sam Keller
- Proposed, done
- In draft, done
- In review, done
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The fix
Your bot protection answers PerplexityBot with 403 on the 37 key pages of ridgewell.example/ch/, while robots.txt allows it. Add an exception for PerplexityBot in the firewall or bot-protection rules, for its published addresses, as you have for Googlebot.
robots.txt, already right, keep it: User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: /
Pages: /ch/, /ch/cirrus-pro/, /ch/nimbus-down/ and 34 more (in the file).
Evidence
Site check of 2 Nov: 37 of 37 key pages answered PerplexityBot with 403; GPTBot, ClaudeBot and Googlebot got 200.
Send
As a file, or by e-mail to your web team. It counts as delivered when they confirm it is live; the next site checks say "fixed" when PerplexityBot gets the pages, "not fixed" after 30 days.
Approved by Sam Keller on 1 Nov.