The Direct Index
Report · Newcastle upon Tyne · scanned 2026-11-14

Marco Polo

marcopolonewcastle.com is ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

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Ways to reach Marco Polo directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-14. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mon–Thu 17:00–23:00 · Fri–Sat 12:00–00:00 · Sun 12:00–23:00

Dean Street 33 NE1 1PQ Newcastle upon Tyne · +44 191 232 5533

Nearby, also direct

Places near Marco Polo that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Marco Polo's website. It can read what Marco Polo offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

89.2%

58 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

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Assistants

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 22 everyday questions about Newcastle upon Tyne and named 84 places. Marco Polo wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Marco Polo compares

Where it stands

37 of 457 in Newcastle upon Tyne

Top 8% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Flint A, Kato Pan Asian Cuisine A. Just below: Mochi Sushi Home A, Pizzaholic A.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML79%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)96%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours62%no
Have an llms.txt21%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 39,056 sites61%42%89.2%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Topolino italian30 mAyes
Zizzi italian135 mAyes
Babucho italian157 mDno
Secco italian196 mFno
Pani's italian216 mByes
Lui's italian332 mFno
Gino D'Acampo Quayside italian384 mByes
Jamie's Italian italian432 mFno
Insieme italian445 mAyes
Bella Italia italian449 mAyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Marco Polo in Newcastle upon Tyne

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Newcastle upon Tyne45758%40%89.2%
Sites built with Squarespace in Newcastle upon Tyne2779%85%89.2%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 7th of 457 in Newcastle upon Tyne, up from 37th.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Structured data is incomplete +4 points

    Missing: address, telephone. How to fix it

  2. 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

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Newcastle upon Tyne. 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.
  • Structured data found (LocalBusiness) opening hours
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.

Builder: squarespace · contact page /contact: nothing new; menu page /menu: nothing new; booking page /make-a-reservation: booking via resdiary · What to paste

Owners

Own this business?

Claiming is free and takes one email to confirm. Then you can correct what assistants are told, and you get a message only when the score changes.

· Markdown · Dispute a check

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.

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For developers and agents

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. Show the details