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Track your brand
in Perplexity.

Perplexity builds answers around sources. See which questions name your brand, which pages it cites, and how that source set changes each day.

Best running shoes for beginners?27.1K searches a monthAsked every morning
Oct 2Fri
  1. 1Brooks
  2. 2Adidas
  3. 3New Balance
  4. 4PUMA
  5. 5Nike
Oct 3Sat
  1. 1Brooks
  2. 2New Balance
  3. 3Adidas
  4. 4PUMA
  5. 5Nike
Oct 4Sun
  1. 1Brooks
  2. 2Adidas
  3. 3New Balance
  4. 4Nike
  5. 5PUMA
Oct 5Mon
  1. 1Brooks
  2. 2New Balance
  3. 3Adidas
  4. 4Nike
  5. 5PUMA
Oct 6Tue
  1. 1Brooks
  2. 2Adidas
  3. 3Nike
  4. 4New Balance
  5. 5PUMA
Oct 7Wed
  1. 1Brooks
  2. 2Adidas
  3. 3Nike
  4. 4PUMA
  5. 5New Balance
Oct 8Today
  1. 1Brooks
  2. 2Adidas
  3. 3Nike
  4. 4New Balance
  5. 5PUMA

Perplexity now names you 3rd

Nike rankings over 7 days
2

One chat tells you very little.

Ask Perplexity the same question three times and you can get three different answers. One spot check can’t show where you stand. A daily record can.

Best running shoes for beginners?Asked three times, Oct 8
Nike 2nd

Most new runners do well in the Brooks Ghost 16. The Nike Pegasus 41 is a close second: cushioned, durable and easy to find.

Nike not named

Start with the Brooks Ghost 16. The Adidas Supernova and New Balance 880 are softer, if you want more cushion.

Nike 4th

Try the Brooks Ghost 16, the Adidas Supernova or the New Balance 880. For a firmer ride, the Nike Pegasus 41 works.

Trakkr asks every morning and keeps every answer, so your place comes from weeks of answers, not one chat.

Perplexity

Best running shoes for flat feet?

For flat feet, most runners do best in a stable shoe with firm arch support. The Brooks Adrenaline GTS 24 is the usual pick. The Nike Structure 25 is a close second: a softer ride, and it comes in wide. For longer runs, try the New Balance 860v14.

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Every answer,
read for you.

Trakkr reads each answer the way you would: where it puts you, what it says about you and which pages it read. Then it keeps that reading, day after day.

See where Perplexity
puts you.

Every assistant ranks you its own way, so Trakkr keeps a separate record for each. Today Perplexity is where you’re strongest.

PerplexityYour best of 8 assistantsYour best of 8
68Score in Perplexity
3rd was 5thof 40 brands
34% +13of answers name you
Your place in Perplexity, by questionToday
best marathon racing shoes1st
best running shoes for flat feet2nd
best running shoes for beginnersup from 5th3rd
best stability running shoePUMA passed you3rd
running shoes for wide feetNot named
Revenue from Perplexity visitors, last 30 daysLast 30 days, 53% of your AI revenue
$6,841

Know why Perplexity
changed its mind.

When an answer moves, Trakkr sets it beside the day before, finds the page Perplexity started reading, and drafts the fix.

See how fixes work
Oct 5Before

Best stability running shoe?

  1. 1Adidas
  2. 2Nike
  3. 3PUMA
  4. 4Brooks
runrepeat.com/guides/stab…
Published Oct 5

The best stability running shoes, tested

  1. PUMA ForeverRun Nitro
  2. Adidas Adistar CS 2
  3. Brooks Adrenaline GTS 24

Doesn’t name Nike

Oct 6After

Best stability running shoe?

  1. 1PUMArunrepeat
  2. 2Adidas
  3. 3Nike
  4. 4Brooks

Get Nike onto runrepeat.com’s guide

Perplexity cites it in 3 of 4 answers. Trakkr drafted the pitch.
Draft outreach

The answer is a bibliography

Every answer shows its sources.

Perplexity is built as an answer engine: it searches, reads, and composes a response with numbered citations on nearly every claim. There is no hidden reasoning about your brand. The sources are printed at the top of the answer, and the citation list effectively is the ranking.

That transparency makes Perplexity the fastest feedback loop in AI search. Its sources refresh constantly, so a better page can earn a citation slot within days rather than months. The same speed cuts the other way: a competitor's new comparison post can quietly take your slot mid-week.

Tracking Perplexity by hand means re-running prompts and eyeballing source lists for changes. Trakkr does it daily, recording every cited URL per prompt, flagging when a slot changes hands, and showing which of your pages (or your competitors') are doing the earning.

Traditional SEO vs PerplexityField guide
SignalGoogle SEOPerplexity
What ranksPages on a results pageSources inside one answer
Slots availableTen blue linksA handful of citations
Update cadenceCrawl and index cyclesFresh retrieval per question
What winsAuthority + keywordsParseable, direct answers
How you loseSlipping to page twoAnother domain takes the citation

Four patterns that show up almost every time we run Perplexity

Observations from running buyer-intent prompts against Perplexity daily. Directional, not benchmarked. The published numbers live in Trakkr Research.

  1. Citations turn over fast

    Source lists on commercial prompts shift week to week. A citation you hold today is rented, not owned, which also means a slot you want is winnable soon.

  2. A few domains dominate

    A small set of review sites, communities, and publishers absorb a large share of citations in most categories. Getting onto those pages often beats publishing another one of your own.

  3. Direct answers win slots

    Pages that state the answer plainly (specs, prices, verdicts) get cited over pages that bury it. Perplexity quotes what it can extract cleanly.

  4. Reddit punches above its weight

    Community threads show up in Perplexity citations far more than most brands expect. If your category's subreddits don't know you exist, Perplexity may not either.

What Trakkr records in Perplexity

Every daily run keeps the full Perplexity answer, so each signal can be checked against the words behind it.

  • Brand mentions

    Every time Perplexity names your brand in an answer to a buyer-intent prompt, with the exact wording it used.

  • Citation slots

    The URL behind every citation in every tracked answer: which of your pages earn slots, and which third-party pages speak for you.

  • Competitor citations

    Which domains your competitors win citations from, and which prompts they own that you don't. Their source list is your gap analysis.

  • Source types

    Whether your category's answers run on review sites, Reddit, news, or brand domains. The mix tells you where to invest.

  • Visibility trend

    One Perplexity score rolling up citation rate, position, and sentiment, tracked daily so movements map to what you shipped.

  • Citation alerts

    Notifications the day you lose a source slot, gain one, or a competitor's page starts outranking yours inside an answer.

A repeatable Perplexity manual check

Two buyer questions and a few fixed controls turn a spot check into evidence you can compare.

Manual check in PerplexityNew chat, every run

Start with two buyer questions

  1. 1

    What are the best [category] tools for [buyer need]? Compare the top three.

  2. 2

    Is [your brand] a good alternative to [competitor] for [buyer need]?

Record the controls with the answer

Run both prompts in a new thread. Save the answer, brand order, numbered citations, cited domains, location, and the selected search mode.

Limit: Perplexity can refresh its source set between runs. A cited page proves retrieval for that answer, not a stable ranking across every user or prompt.

Set up a useful daily record

Three steps from your domain to a record you can read every morning.

  1. Add your brand

    Enter your domain, review the buyer questions and choose the competitors you want to compare.

  2. Run Perplexity daily

    Trakkr queries Perplexity against your prompts every day, recording the full answer and every numbered citation with its URL, position, and the brand it supports.

  3. Review what changed

    Inspect the Perplexity answers, mentions and sources behind a material change before choosing an action.

Compare plans and tracking limits

Questions,
answered.

The ones we hear most.

Talk through your setup

Start with the questions closest to a buying decision: category searches, best-of lists, alternatives, comparisons, pricing, reviews, and the problems your product solves. Add branded questions about your company and competitors, then keep the wording stable long enough to establish a baseline before expanding the set.

Ask anything else, like “How do I get cited by Perplexity?”Ask anything else

The Agent answers from our docs, methods and pricing, and links to the source.

Know what Perplexity
tells your buyers.

Add your brand and the questions they ask. Trakkr asks Perplexity first thing tomorrow, and every morning after.

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Best running shoes for beginners?Asked every morning
Oct 7Wed
  1. 1Brooks
  2. 2Adidas
  3. 3Nike
  4. 4PUMA
  5. 5New Balance
Oct 8Today
  1. 1Brooks
  2. 2Adidas
  3. 3Nike
  4. 4New Balance
  5. 5PUMA
Oct 9Tomorrow
  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5