York Harbor, Maine

How guests and AI assistants find Stage Neck Inn

Prepared by Ethan Hawkes · checked 30 October 2026 (6:11 pm ET) · PDF copy

The short version. The hotel facts block on your home page points machines to a 2019 logo on an old hosting address that no longer serves a valid certificate, lists a personal mailbox as the hotel email, and has a stray comma in your street address.

What we checked

Your home page, fetched signed out
Your robots.txt, sitemap and llms.txt
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

Your logo in the hotel facts block points to a dead staging host

“"image": "https://secureservercdn.net/45.40.149.159/4p6.43e.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/SNI_Logo_RGB.png"”

Source: https://stageneckinn.com/, fetched 2026-10-30 18:11 ET

That address failed at 6:13 pm ET with a certificate name mismatch, so anything that reads your structured data gets no image for the hotel.

The hotel email is a personal mailbox, written as a link

“"email": "mailto:peterfoster@stageneck.com"”

Source: https://stageneckinn.com/, fetched 2026-10-30 18:11 ET

The email field expects a plain address. A personal mailbox on a different domain (stageneck.com, not stageneckinn.com) becomes the inn's official contact to machines, and goes stale when roles change.

Your street address has a stray comma

“"streetAddress": "8 Stage Neck Road ,"”

Source: https://stageneckinn.com/, fetched 2026-10-30 18:11 ET

Small, but address strings are matched against maps and listings; a trailing " ," is the kind of mismatch that makes a record look unreliable.

Why it matters

Search engines and AI trip planners read the structured data block and the files at the root of your site to learn your basic facts. When those disagree with what a guest sees, machines either skip them or repeat the wrong version, and fill the gaps from booking sites instead of from you.

4 fixes, ranked

Point the schema image at a logo on stageneckinn.com.Upload the logo to your current media library and use that URL.Web · 15 minutes
Use a role address for the hotel email.Replace "mailto:peterfoster@stageneck.com" with a plain front-desk or reservations address.Web · 10 minutes
Remove the trailing comma from streetAddress.It should read "8 Stage Neck Road".Web · 5 minutes
Test the home page in Google's Rich Results Test.Paste https://stageneckinn.com/ into search.google.com/test/rich-results to confirm the block parses with the new values.Web · 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