Would Perplexity cite your site?

A source citation is a URL in the answer: the engine read that page and points the reader at it. A named mention is your brand in the prose, with or without a link. Perplexity shows source citations under every answer, so a page cited there is visible to every reader; a brand mentioned without a link is a name the reader has to look up.

No. The free tool asks Claude, which cites URLs inline when it has them, and uses that answer as a proxy. The result panel labels it a live Claude answer or a demo sample. Perplexity itself, with its full source list, is scanned in the product on the Studio, Pro and Agency plans; the free trial runs ChatGPT and Gemini.

Because the two are different signals. Your brand can be named in the prose while the URLs in the answer point at a review site or a competitor. The tool marks a domain as yours when it matches your brand name or an alias, so add your domain as an alias to make that match exact.

Publish the page the engine would want to link to: a direct answer to the prompt in the first paragraph, a dated last-updated line, and the facts a reader would check. Then look at which domains were cited instead of yours and ask whether a listing or a review there could name you.