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AI Recommends Discontinued Products

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

1

Perplexity recommends products you've sunset or discontinued

2

Users ask about features from deprecated versions

3

Old product names appear in Perplexity recommendations

4

Perplexity doesn't know about your latest product lineup

How to Fix This in Perplexity

Follow these Perplexity-specific solutions:

1

Redirect discontinued product pages to current alternatives

2

Create 'product sunset' announcements with migration paths

3

Update all references to discontinued products

4

Add 'discontinued' notices and alternatives to old pages

5

Build authority for current products with fresh content

6

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

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