Balboa Salon
balboasalonsd.com is partly visible to agents.
Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.
Ways to reach Balboa Salon directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-16. On the business's own site. Report a mistake
Balboa Avenue 5929 92111 San Diego · +1-858-278-0799
Places near Balboa Salon that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Blush Hour120 m
- Mesa Spa350 m
- European Wax Center490 m
- Dynamic Myofascial Release550 m
- Spa Aphrodite610 m
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open Balboa Salon's website. It can read what Balboa Salon offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.
54 of 80 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
things to fix
Action test, 2026-10-21: partial, there's a path, but an agent would have trouble with it. There is a button or a form, but no complete booking or ordering flow an agent can finish on this page.
Provisional, with the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.
What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored
These don't change the grade.
Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. In San Diego, 67% of comparable sites that show a year say 2025 or later.
Every city compared →What assistants answer
Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.
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 7 everyday questions about San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons and named 38 places. Balboa Salon wasn't one of them. See who was named →
How Balboa Salon compares
359 of 1,535 in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons
Top 23% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Twisted Tree Health C, Vanity Belle Beauty Boutique C. Just below: Black Dagger Hair C, E Med Spa C.
| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 97% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 26% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 97% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 12% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 51% | no |
The top 10% are the 159 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with WordPress 224,455 sites | 55% | 24% | 67.5% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blush Hour | 122 m | C | yes |
| Mesa Spa | 346 m | C | yes |
| European Wax Center | 492 m | B | yes |
| Healthy Touch Massage and Bodywork | 527 m | C | no |
| Dynamic Myofascial Release | 548 m | B | yes |
| Holding Space Myofascial Release | 549 m | F | no |
| Spa Aphrodite | 610 m | B | yes |
| Spacienda | 614 m | F | no |
| Nails By Ann and Lounge | 635 m | A | yes |
| San Diego Massage & Esthetics | 680 m | F | no |
Businesses like Balboa Salon in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons | 1,535 | 49% | 21% | 67.5% |
| Sites built with WordPress in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons | 386 | 58% | 22% | 67.5% |
The best of the sites built with WordPress in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons
Lisa Beauty Salon A 95.4% · San Diego Skin MedSpa & Laser A 95.4% · The Knot Stop A 87.7% · Beauty IQ Pro Spa A 86.2% · Bella Donna’s A 86.2%
After the top fixes
With the fix above (No structured data for the business), the score would be about 86.3%. That would be 18th of 1,535 in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons, up from 359th.
Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.
What to fix first
- No structured data for the business +15 points
Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (HairSalon, BeautySalon or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it
- No llms.txt no points, but worth doing
Optional for now and cheap to add. It's a short text file that describes the business for language models. How to fix it
Send the fixes to your web person
No one is listed yet to fix this in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.
Already right
- robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
- AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
- Price list of services is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
- Appointments on your own site Agents can book an appointment without going through a marketplace.
Builder: wordpress · contact page /contact-us: nothing new; menu page /services/pricing-table: nothing new; booking page /make-an-appointment: nothing new
What to paste
Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on wordpress.
Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.
Show the code 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. Guide.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "HairSalon",
"name": "Balboa Salon",
"url": "https://www.balboasalonsd.com/",
"telephone": "+1-858-278-0799",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "Balboa Avenue 5929",
"postalCode": "92111",
"addressLocality": "San Diego",
"addressCountry": "US"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 32.8190299,
"longitude": -117.177313
},
"potentialAction": [
{
"@type": "ReserveAction",
"target": {
"@type": "EntryPoint",
"urlTemplate": "https://www.balboasalonsd.com/make-an-appointment",
"actionPlatform": [
"http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
"http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
]
},
"result": {
"@type": "Reservation",
"name": "Reservation"
}
}
]
}
</script>
llms.txt
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# Balboa Salon > hair salon in Balboa Avenue 5929 92111 San Diego, San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone +1-858-278-0799. ## Book or order directly - Book: https://www.balboasalonsd.com/make-an-appointment (on the business's own site) - Menu: https://www.balboasalonsd.com/services/pricing-table ## About - Website: https://www.balboasalonsd.com/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Own this business?
If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.
Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.
What agents get, and what the site publishes
The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.
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What agents get for Balboa Salon
The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/balboasalonsd.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/san-diego-salons/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | www.balboasalonsd.com/make-an-appointment own site | could not verify: partial (2026-10-21) |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | www.balboasalonsd.com/services/pricing-table html_page | from the scan |
| Hours | none on record | |
| Phone | +1-858-278-0799 |
Stable links that count: /go/balboasalonsd.com/book, /go/balboasalonsd.com/menu answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.
Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.
Can an agent transact?
Measured, not scored: the Agent-Direct Score stays at specification v1.0. This says which rails an agent could transact through today, and what the booking or ordering vendor's terms allow.
| 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 |
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence
These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward the score. Each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.
| Link headers on the homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | no how |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | no |