Check that AI assistants can read your website
AI assistants and search engines send bots to read websites. If your website or booking engine blocks them, through its settings or its firewall, assistants can't use your pages and rely on what other sites say about you. OneHorizyn checks each bot, one by one.
These bots are often called crawlers: GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot are three of them.
An AI assistant can only recommend a hotel whose website it can read. Letting its bots in is the first step to being named, and booked.
- 1Googlebot: Google Search and AI Overviews
- 2Bingbot: Bing and Copilot
- 3OAI-SearchBot: ChatGPT search results
- 4Claude-SearchBot: Claude search results
- 5PerplexityBot: Perplexity answers
- 6GPTBot: OpenAI model training
- Read from
- Your website's settings, and how its server answers each bot
- How often
- Every month
- Covers
- The bots behind Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and more
- You connect
- Nothing
What you see
Every bot that matters
The bots behind Google and Gemini, Bing, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Apple, and Common Crawl's, checked one by one.
Your settings, and your server
Whether your website's robots.txt allows each bot, and whether your server actually lets it in.
Your booking engine too
The booking engine your prices link to is checked as well, since that's where guests book.
What each bot is for
Which bots feed search results and AI answers, and which only collect training data, so you can decide what to allow.
How it works
- 1
Read your settings
Your website's robots.txt is read for each bot's name.
- 2
Visit as each bot
Your home page is requested as each bot, to catch firewalls that block AI bots whatever the settings say.
- 3
Give a verdict
Open, blocked by your settings, blocked by your server, or couldn't be checked, for each bot.
Questions hotels ask
What is robots.txt?
- A small file at the root of a website that tells bots which pages they may read. Most bots respect it.
Should I block AI bots?
- Blocking the bots behind AI answers, such as OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot and PerplexityBot, keeps your pages out of those answers. Bots that only collect training data, such as GPTBot and ClaudeBot, can be treated separately. OneHorizyn shows which is which.
My settings allow every bot. Can I still be blocked?
- Yes. Some firewalls and hosting services block AI bots on their own. That's why OneHorizyn also requests your page as each bot.
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