Bookings flow to competitors and you get no 'ranking dropped' alert — because AI recommendations have no ranking alarm. These 6 steps locate where your hotel is stuck: discovery, retrieval, citation, or absorption.
Definition
| # | Symptom | Root cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AI never mentions you | Name / address inconsistent across the web, unresolvable | Unify name + address + geo; get into OTAs / maps |
| 2 | Mentions you but wrong info | Structured data missing or stale | Publish accurate Hotel schema |
| 3 | Competitors cited, you rarely | Weak cross-site entity consensus (no OTA / reviews / travel sites) | Spread consistent info across authoritative sources |
| 4 | Disappears under a specific intent | Insufficient citations / reviews for that intent | Add content and reviews for that scenario |
| 5 | English queries miss your CN hotel | Language coverage mismatch | Build multilingual retrievable assets |
| 6 | New hotel barely appears | Low authority / recency weight | Accumulate citations and time signals steadily |
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