Perplexity: Stop AI from Recommending Discontinued Products
How to fix the problem of ai recommends discontinued products specifically for Perplexity. Platform-specific solutions and prevention strategies.
Why This Happens in Perplexity
Perplexity uses PerplexityBot to discover and index content. Discontinued product pages still live and indexed. To fix this, you need to ensure Perplexity's crawler can access your content and that your pages are structured in a way Perplexity can understand.
Signs You Have This Problem in Perplexity
Perplexity recommends products you've sunset or discontinued
Users ask about features from deprecated versions
Old product names appear in Perplexity recommendations
Perplexity doesn't know about your latest product lineup
How to Fix This in Perplexity
Follow these Perplexity-specific solutions:
Redirect discontinued product pages to current alternatives
Create 'product sunset' announcements with migration paths
Update all references to discontinued products
Add 'discontinued' notices and alternatives to old pages
Build authority for current products with fresh content
Contact external sites to update their information
Perplexity Technical Details
Crawler Name
PerplexityBot
User Agent
PerplexityBot
Required robots.txt configuration:
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /Prevent This Problem in Perplexity
Create a product lifecycle content strategy
Plan content updates when discontinuing products
Maintain redirects for all deprecated URLs
Test Perplexity knowledge after product changes