---
type: "Article"
title: "SEO for Perplexity: HTML-Only AI Crawlers"
description: "PerplexityBot is citation-first and HTML-only. Prerendering produces the structured paragraphs and JSON-LD that win Perplexity citations."
resource: "https://prerender.info/blog/seo-for-perplexity-prerendering-infrastructure"
tags: [AI Visibility, SEO for Perplexity, PerplexityBot, Perplexity citations, AI answer engine SEO, AI visibility prerendering]
timestamp: 2026-05-03T00:00:00Z
---

# SEO for Perplexity: HTML-Only AI Crawlers

PerplexityBot is citation-first and HTML-only. Prerendering produces the structured paragraphs and JSON-LD that win Perplexity citations.

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