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StoreCited
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Is your storefront evidence ready for Perplexity retrieval?

Perplexity visibility cannot be established by inspecting a storefront once. What StoreCited can establish is narrower and useful: whether a dated public fetch exposed clear source material worth verifying. The scan covers the submitted homepage, at most one representative product page discovered from it, and robots.txt, sitemap.xml, and llms.txt. It reviews visible content, raw HTML, links, and metadata for access, product, trust, and answer-readiness clues. It does not query Perplexity, observe citations, or impersonate PerplexityBot, so its score is public-source readiness rather than live visibility.

Free · No login · Results in ~60 seconds

Free · No login · ~60 seconds
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What this checks

What StoreCited inspects — and what it does not

Is the public source reachable and coherent?

StoreCited requests the submitted homepage, one possible homepage-linked representative product page, and selected discovery files. It records canonical and noindex metadata, mobile metadata, robots declarations, sitemap availability, and llms.txt availability from its own fetch. These checks expose contradictions a merchant can verify, such as an intended public page carrying a noindex directive. They do not prove that Perplexity fetched, indexed, or used the page. StoreCited is not PerplexityBot or Perplexity-User, and a successful StoreCited response cannot stand in for provider logs, retrieval records, or a live answer.

Does the fetched page contain answerable evidence?

Visible Markdown is reviewed for specific product details, price clues, direct buyer answers, FAQ or guide text, and company or proof clues. Raw HTML is reviewed for selected JSON-LD type presence. The best public source states facts plainly, distinguishes claims from evidence, and gives buyers enough context to verify fit and limits. StoreCited does not score prose as a promise of citation. A present clue may be incomplete or wrong, and an absent clue may exist elsewhere. The report identifies what appeared in this sample so a merchant can inspect the live source and improve it responsibly.

How should live Perplexity visibility be measured?

Measure it separately with a fixed, dated query panel. Record the exact question, market, language, account or mode, complete answer, cited URLs, product mentions, and misses. Keep the denominator so a citation rate has meaning. Repeat on a planned cadence without rewriting prompts to flatter the brand. Compare those observations with StoreCited's readiness checks only as different layers: one records sampled outcomes, while the other records public inputs. A public-page repair can be worthwhile even when the answer sample does not move, and a changed citation does not establish which input caused it.

Method and primary references

These official sources define the platform-specific controls and evidence limits behind this readiness check. StoreCited's result remains a dated observation of its own public fetch.

Frequently asked questions

Is this a live Perplexity citation checker?
No. StoreCited does not send queries to Perplexity, capture current answers, or verify that a URL was cited. It performs a point-in-time check of public storefront inputs returned by its own fetch. Use the result to repair accessible evidence, and use a separately documented prompt panel when the question is actual Perplexity mentions or citations.
Does allowing PerplexityBot guarantee a citation?
No. A robots declaration expresses a crawl preference for a named user agent; it does not prove a request occurred, a page entered an index, a passage was retrieved, or a citation appeared. StoreCited reports the relevant public declaration and fetched response as evidence to inspect, while Perplexity controls its own systems and outputs.
What product evidence does StoreCited look for?
On at most one representative homepage-linked product page, StoreCited looks for visible specifications, word-count context, price clues, direct buyer answers, and related trust or policy clues. It also checks raw HTML for selected JSON-LD type presence. The scan does not decide whether the product is the best choice or predict its citation performance.
Does missing content prove Perplexity cannot find it?
No. Missing means the bounded StoreCited fetch did not expose that clue in the pages it inspected. Another public page, feed, index, or provider-specific process may contain different information. Confirm the live page, navigation, and relevant platform records before changing anything. The result is a focused diagnostic observation, not a universal retrieval verdict.
What makes a better public source page?
A better source page answers one real buyer task with specific, supportable facts. It identifies the product and variant, states relevant specifications and limitations, links policies and evidence, and keeps visible content consistent with structured representations. Use concise sections and useful tables when they clarify decisions. Then measure real citations separately instead of presenting page readiness as an observed outcome.

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