Is your website blocking AI crawlers by mistake?
Updated By Akkrev
Many hospitality websites block AI crawlers without knowing it, through robots.txt, firewalls or plugins. How to check yours.
If AI crawlers can’t read your site, AI assistants describe you from other sources: OTAs, review sites, old articles.
How sites block AI by accident
- robots.txt rules added by a plugin or a developer, sometimes copied from a template.
- Bot protection on your host or CDN that challenges every automated visitor.
- Website builders with “block AI” switches turned on by default or by mistake.
Which crawlers matter
OpenAI (GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User), Anthropic (ClaudeBot and others), Perplexity, Google (Google-Extended for Gemini training; Googlebot for search) and others.
Check it
Our free AI crawler check reads your robots.txt and homepage and shows which AI crawlers you let in.