Technical SEO Check: Six Sites, Two llms.txt, One Bot Wall
Six sites, one text-only fetch each, Aug 29, 2026: two real llms.txt files, four 404s, one 403 wall, a missing canonical, and the check order that finds them.
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Six sites, one text-only fetch each, Aug 29, 2026: two real llms.txt files, four 404s, one 403 wall, a missing canonical, and the check order that finds them.
Eight travel giants measured Aug 25, 2026: Booking.com and Airbnb lack llms.txt, Marriott and TripAdvisor block crawlers; Kayak ships a file with FAQ schema.
Six education sites checked August 24, 2026: only Coursera ships llms.txt. MIT and Stanford ship no JSON-LD. Khan Academy returns a JS challenge page.
Six proptech homepages checked August 15: Compass and Opendoor publish llms.txt, Yardi blocks AI crawlers but ships no file, and two sites have zero schema.
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