# The Albert: Agent-Direct Score D (45.5%)

Site: https://www.alberthalls-bolton.co.uk/the-albert/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/alberthalls-bolton.co.uk
Scanned: 2026-10-21 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.)
The Albert is hard for agents to use.
Some AI assistants are turned away by The Albert's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly, through quaytickets.com.

## Direct links
- Phone: +447716583220
- Address: The Albert, Albert Halls, Victoria Square, BL11RU, Bolton

## Nearby, also direct
Places near The Albert that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Octagon Kitchen & Bar (110 m): https://directindex.org/r/octagonbolton.co.uk
- Jing Jai Thai Cafe (210 m): https://directindex.org/r/jingjai.co.uk
- Pizza4world (210 m): https://directindex.org/r/pizza4world.com
- Tapaz (210 m): https://directindex.org/r/tapaz.co.uk

## What to fix first
- **Booking through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **No menu or price list found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai
- **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+6.7 points) Requests as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **Structured data is incomplete.** (+6 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant
- **robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended.** (+3.7 points) These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/robots-txt-for-ai-agents
- **The phone number on the site doesn't match the open map data.** The site shows 01204333888, but OpenStreetMap or Overture Maps lists +447716583220. An assistant that sees two numbers can't tell which one to trust. Fix whichever is wrong, on the site or in the map data at openstreetmap.org.

## Fix kit: What to paste

Structured data (JSON-LD). Paste it as one block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom code box. Change anything that's wrong.

```html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Organization",
  "name": "The Albert",
  "url": "https://www.alberthalls-bolton.co.uk/the-albert/",
  "telephone": "+447716583220",
  "address": "The Albert, Albert Halls, Victoria Square, BL11RU, Bolton",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 53.5781400683082,
    "longitude": -2.429641914673407
  }
}
</script>
```

robots.txt. Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers.

```
# Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them.
# Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
```

## Already right
- **Structured data found (Organization).** no address, phone or hours in it

## Where it stands
1615 of 2377 in Manchester. Top 68% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 99% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 85% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 94% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 49% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 28% | yes |

Nearest places in the index: Octagon Kitchen & Bar (A, 108 m, https://directindex.org/r/octagonbolton.co.uk); Ciao Napoli (D, 129 m, https://directindex.org/r/ciao-napoli.co.uk); Nelson Square First Aid Medics (F, 156 m, https://directindex.org/r/thebarbolton.co.uk); Northern Monkey Bar (B, 163 m, https://directindex.org/r/northernmonkeybar.co.uk); Sizzling Palate (C, 206 m, https://directindex.org/r/sizzlingpalate.com); Freddy's Chicken and Pizza (C, 208 m, https://directindex.org/r/freddyschickenbolton.co.uk); Jing Jai Thai Cafe (B, 208 m, https://directindex.org/r/jingjai.co.uk); Pizza4world (A, 209 m, https://directindex.org/r/pizza4world.com); Tapaz (B, 214 m, https://directindex.org/r/tapaz.co.uk); Hot Chilli Restaurant (F, 216 m, https://directindex.org/r/hotchilli-restaurant.co.uk).

## What assistants answer
The assistants haven't been asked about this business yet. They're asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about any business as soon as it's claimed. Claim this page to be included.

The assistants were asked 23 everyday questions about Manchester and named 142 places. The Albert wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/manchester/recommended


Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (25% A or B, 236086 sites); This site 45.5%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/alberthalls-bolton.co.uk/agent-view

## Businesses like The Albert in Manchester

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Manchester | 2377 | 55% | 33% | 45.5% |
| Sites built with WordPress in Manchester | 555 | 65% | 48% | 45.5% |

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Manchester: The Great Kathmandu (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/greatkathmandu.com); Fazenda (A 96.3%, https://directindex.org/r/fogodechao.uk); Red Lion High Lane (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/redlionhighlane.pub); Ribeye Steakhouse (A 94.9%, https://directindex.org/r/ribeyesteakhouse.com); Gusto Italian (A 92.5%, https://directindex.org/r/gustorestaurants.com).

With the three fixes above (Booking through an unrecognised third party; No menu or price list found; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 80.5%. That would be 394th of 2,377 in Manchester, up from 1615th.

## The direct record
What agents get for The Albert, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/alberthalls-bolton.co.uk
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +447716583220

## Can an agent transact?
Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0).
- UCP profile (/.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol): no
- ACP discovery document (/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol): no
- MCP server card (/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json): no
- Ordering vendor that takes agent orders (Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents): no

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 14.6 | 25 |
| Readable | 9 | 25 |
| Actionable | 6 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 2 of 5, Bot-Aware. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/alberthalls-bolton.co.uk
- Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md)
- sitemap.xml: yes
- AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes
- Content Signals in robots.txt: yes
- Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md)
- llms.txt: yes
- API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md)
- MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md)
- A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md)
- Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md)
- OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md)
- OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md)
- auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md)
- Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md)
- ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md)
- DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md)
- WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md)
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/alberthalls-bolton.co.uk/plan): the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/alberthalls-bolton.co.uk/deep. Ten questions phrased the way people ask them, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.
Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=alberthalls-bolton.co.uk&force=1