Is Your Hotel Blocking ChatGPT by Accident? Silent AI-Crawler Blocks — and the Cloudflare Change Landing September 15
A hotel spends months doing everything right for AI visibility: answer-first content, clean schema markup, fresh photography descriptions, a fast booking engine. Then a traveler asks ChatGPT for a recommendation in the destination — and the hotel simply isn’t in the answer. Not because the model prefers competitors. Because the model’s crawler knocked, got a 403 Forbidden at the front door, and moved on to sites it could actually read. ...