The Direct Index
Report · Edinburgh cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-14

Cafe Royal

caferoyaledinburgh.co.uk is largely invisible to agents.

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F
15.4%

10 of 65 points available

0/5

agent-readiness level, Not Ready

6

things to fix

Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +15 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. No booking or ordering path at all +15 points

    Agents have nothing to act on. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. How to fix it

  3. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +10 points

    Live fetches as GPTBot (challenge:access denied), ClaudeBot (challenge:access denied), PerplexityBot (challenge:access denied) were refused while a normal browser got the page. This is usually a hosting or firewall bot list the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it

  4. No menu or price list found +7 points

    Agents answer 'what do they offer' from marketplaces instead. Add a menu or price list page and link it from the homepage. How to fix it

  5. No working HTTPS +3 points

    The page is only served over plain http. Agents and browsers downrank or refuse it.

  6. Almost no text without JavaScript +2 points

    Crawlers that do not run scripts see an empty page. Render the menu, hours and address as plain HTML. How to fix it

No one is listed yet to fix this in Edinburgh cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · almost no text without JavaScript; Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on your builder is in the guides.

Structured data (JSON-LD)

One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "BarOrPub",
  "name": "Cafe Royal",
  "url": "http://www.caferoyaledinburgh.co.uk/",
  "telephone": "+44 131 556 1884",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "West Register Street 19",
    "postalCode": "EH2 2AA",
    "addressLocality": "Edinburgh",
    "addressCountry": "GB"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 55.9537951,
    "longitude": -3.1904838
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-We 11:00-23:00; Th 11:00-00:00; Fr-Sa 11:00-01:00; Su 11:00-23:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "23:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Thursday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "00:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday",
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "01:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "23:00"
    }
  ]
}
</script>
Where it stands

317 of 424 in Edinburgh cafes and bars

Top 75% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Maison Brew F, The Howdah Tea & Coffee Co F. Just below: 92 Degrees Coffee F, Art and Vintage F.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML74%no
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)88%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours35%no
Have an llms.txt23%yes

The top tenth is the 43 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Voodoo Rooms10 mCyes
Snax Cafe15 mByes
Guildford Arms23 mCno
Lady Libertine mediterranean, kebab63 mCyes
Mòr Bakehouse coffee_shop, bakery102 mCyes
Jackson the Tailor142 mBno
Newsroom144 mAyes
Flight Club160 mCyes
Bread Street Kitchen & Bar162 mCyes
Abbotsford266 mByes
Agent readiness

Level 0 of 5, Not Ready

The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of the score; each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtno how
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtyes
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessno
Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.

Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included.

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Agent-Direct Score F

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Owners

Own this business?

Fixed something, or think a check is wrong? Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm; after that the three assistants are asked about the business right away, the site is rescanned weekly, and you get a message only when the score changes.

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