Hotel Robots.txt Validator
Make sure search engines and AI assistants can safely crawl, index and reuse your hotel content. Validate your robots.txt for SEO, AI Overviews (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO).
Validate your robots.txt
Either enter your hotel domain to generate a sample robots.txt, or paste your existing file for a quick review.
We do a read-only review. No index changes or edits to your live robots.txt file.
Start with your main robots.txt
Validate the file used on your primary domain first, then review any alternative domains or subdomains, for example booking engines and landing pages.
Robots.txt for Search & AI
Make your hotel website easy for search engines, AI overviews and answer engines to understand and reuse, without exposing sensitive areas.
SEO-Safe Configuration
Quickly see whether your robots.txt is blocking pages that matter for organic traffic and direct bookings.
Syntax & Structure Hints
Get guidance on clear user-agent rules, disallow directives and sitemap references, using hotel-friendly examples.
Crawl Path Overview
Understand how crawlers move through your site so you can support discovery of rooms, offers and destination content.
AI & Answer Engine Ready
Avoid blocking content that AI Overviews, AEO and GEO tools use when recommending hotels and shaping AI responses.
AEO & GEO Awareness
Design robots.txt rules that keep sensitive areas closed while leaving rich, helpful content open to AI systems.
Fast Checklist for Developers
Share a concise list of action points with your developers or agency to implement best practice quickly.
How the Validator Works
Validate your robots.txt in a few steps to protect sensitive areas while keeping helpful content discoverable for search and AI.
Enter Domain or Paste File
Start with your primary hotel domain, then paste or generate the robots.txt you currently serve to crawlers.
Check Blocking Rules
Review which directories are protected and make sure booking, room and location pages are not unintentionally blocked.
Review Sitemaps & Signals
Confirm your XML sitemaps are linked and that crawlers have a clear path to discover key SEO and AEO content.
Align with SEO, AEO & GEO
Adjust rules so search engines, AI overviews and answer engines can safely reuse helpful hotel content.
Robots.txt FAQs
Everything you need to know about keeping your hotel site crawlable for SEO and AI while protecting sensitive areas.
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