How do I get Perplexity to recommend my business?

Perplexity is the most transparent of the major assistants about why it names someone, because it cites its sources inline — which means getting recommended is really about being a clean, quotable source among the handful it pulls for a given question. Perplexity blends its own index with mainstream web results, so the fundamentals matter: your pages have to be crawlable, clearly structured, and written so a single passage answers the exact question a buyer would ask. Pages that lead with a direct answer, use plain headings, and carry Organization or LocalBusiness schema are far easier to quote than marketing copy that buries the point. Because Perplexity leans on corroboration, the third-party signals that decide other assistants decide here too: consistent citations across the directories and review sites in your category, and genuine reviews. The practical move is to write answer-first content for the real questions in your space, keep your entity facts identical everywhere, and make sure nothing in robots.txt blocks the crawlers Perplexity relies on.

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