Perkinsville, Vermont

How guests and AI assistants find The Inn at Weathersfield

Prepared by Ethan Hawkes · checked 30 October 2026 (12:18 pm ET) · PDF copy

The short version. Your home page footer still shows a COVID statement and a 2021 copyright, and the newest post on the page is from December 2024. To a guest, or to software summarizing the page, that can read as "not current".

What we checked

Your home page and contact page, fetched signed out
Your robots.txt and sitemap
The structured data (JSON-LD) that search engines and AI assistants read from your home page
Every finding below is quoted exactly, with the page it came from and the time it was fetched

What we found on your site

The footer is from 2021

Source: https://www.weathersfieldinn.com/, fetched 2026-10-30 12:18 ET

Guests and AI assistants use dates like these as signals of whether a business is active.

The newest post is almost a year old

“Dec 2, 2024”

Source: https://www.weathersfieldinn.com/, fetched 2026-10-30 12:18 ET

It's the most recent date shown among the home page posts.

Why it matters

A guest deciding between inns looks for signs that the place is open and cared for. Search engines and AI assistants weigh freshness too, and a 2021 footer with no 2025 or 2026 dates gives them reason to doubt it.

3 fixes, ranked

Update the footer.Change the copyright year and remove the COVID statement link, or replace it with current policies.Web · 15 minutes
Post one current item.A winter season, dinner, or events note with a 2026 date shows guests the inn is active.Innkeepers · 1 hour
Confirm the dates on your Google Business Profile.Make sure the hours and seasonal status there match the site.Innkeepers · 15 minutes

If it's useful, I'd welcome 20 minutes to compare notes on how guests are finding independent hotels now. — Ethan Hawkes, Signalry