# Dr Mark Bowes: Agent-Direct Score C (56.5%) Site: https://www.markbowes.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/markbowes.com Scanned: 2026-10-24 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Dr Mark Bowes is partly visible to agents. Some AI assistants are turned away by Dr Mark Bowes'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 trustdentistry.co.za. ## Direct links - Phone: +27729807455 - Address: 3rd Floor, De Waterkant Centre, 9 Somerset Rd, 8001, Cape Town ## Nearby, also direct Places near Dr Mark Bowes that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Dr Sheryl Smithies - Aesthetic & Cosmetic Dentist (20 m): https://directindex.org/r/enamel.clinic - Prof. Howard Gluckman (30 m): https://directindex.org/r/howardgluckman.com - Green Point Physio (110 m): https://directindex.org/r/greenpointphysio.co.za - Peak Movement: Physiotherapy, Biokinetics & Medical Suites (370 m): https://directindex.org/r/peakmovement.co.za ## What to fix first - **Appointments 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 list of services and prices found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they treat and what does it cost?' from directories instead. Add a page that lists services and prices as text, and link to it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+6 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+3.3 points) Requests as ClaudeBot (http_429) 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 - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business - **The phone number on the site doesn't match the open map data.** The site shows +270214182048, but OpenStreetMap or Overture Maps lists +27729807455. 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 ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Dr Mark Bowes > organization in 3rd Floor, De Waterkant Centre, 9 Somerset Rd, 8001, Cape Town, Cape Town dentists, clinics and vets. Phone +27729807455. ## About - Website: https://www.markbowes.com/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models. ``` ## Already right - **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the main AI user agents. - **Structured data found (Organization).** no address, phone or hours in it ## Where it stands 232 of 561 in Cape Town dentists, clinics and vets. Top 41% 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 | 100% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 7% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 97% | no | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 14% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 29% | no | Nearest places in the index: Dr Sheryl Smithies - Aesthetic & Cosmetic Dentist (B, 23 m, https://directindex.org/r/enamel.clinic); Dr Marc Sher (D, 23 m, https://directindex.org/r/drmarcsher.co.za); Prof. Howard Gluckman (C, 28 m, https://directindex.org/r/howardgluckman.com); Pincus Sean J (D, 83 m, https://directindex.org/r/capepodiatry.co.za); Green Point Physio (C, 106 m, https://directindex.org/r/greenpointphysio.co.za); Mignon Laub (C, 118 m, https://directindex.org/r/laubaesthetics.co.za); W.O.M.B.S. South Africa (F, 160 m, https://directindex.org/r/wombs.org.za); Kilimanjaro Herbal Clinic Africa (F, 290 m, https://directindex.org/r/yolasite.com); Peak Movement: Physiotherapy, Biokinetics & Medical Suites (B, 370 m, https://directindex.org/r/peakmovement.co.za); Trish Lang Physiotherapists (F, 401 m, https://directindex.org/r/physios.capetown). ## 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 12 everyday questions about Cape Town dentists, clinics and vets and named 59 places. Dr Mark Bowes wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/cape-town-clinics/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (24% A or B, 224455 sites); This site 56.5%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/markbowes.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Dr Mark Bowes in Cape Town dentists, clinics and vets | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Cape Town dentists, clinics and vets | 561 | 50% | 16% | 56.5% | | Sites built with WordPress in Cape Town dentists, clinics and vets | 308 | 54% | 21% | 56.5% | The best of the sites built with WordPress in Cape Town dentists, clinics and vets: Panorama Centre for Surgical Oncology (A 87.7%, https://directindex.org/r/pacso.co.za); The Recovery Hub SA (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/therecoveryhub.co.za); Dr Guillaume Barker (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/cosmeticdental.co.za); Dr Sheryl Smithies - Aesthetic & Cosmetic Dentist (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/enamel.clinic); Lonese Jacobs Physiotherapist (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/lonesephysio.co.za). With the three fixes above (Appointments through an unrecognised third party; No list of services and prices found; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 90.3%, which would be first of 561 in Cape Town dentists, clinics and vets. ## The direct record What agents get for Dr Mark Bowes, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/markbowes.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: none on record - Hours: none on record - Phone: +27729807455 ## 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 | 21.7 | 25 | | Readable | 9 | 25 | | Actionable | 6 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/markbowes.com - 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: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md) - Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md) - llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md) - 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/markbowes.com/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/markbowes.com/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 ยท Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=markbowes.com&force=1