How do I track brand mentions in Perplexity?

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Run your buyer-intent prompts in Perplexity on a schedule and record three things per answer: whether your brand is mentioned, whether it is recommended, and which URLs are cited. Perplexity cites sources on every answer, so tracking it doubles as source intelligence — you see exactly which pages are shaping how buyers hear about you. Perplexity is the most instrumentable engine because citation is built into its design: every answer lists the pages it drew from. That turns monitoring into a concrete loop — if the answer about your category cites a comparison article that omits you, that article is your outreach or content target, not a mystery. Track prompts the way buyers phrase research questions ('best X for Y', 'X vs Y', 'is X worth it'), since Perplexity's audience skews toward deliberate research. Keep the prompt set fixed, log the cited domains over time, and watch for two events: your pages entering or leaving the citation set, and a competitor's content newly appearing in it. Manual tracking works weekly for a handful of prompts; beyond that, automate. The mechanical part — running prompts, storing answers, diffing citations — is exactly what monitoring tools do, leaving you the judgment work of fixing what the citations reveal.

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