# McCoy Barber College: Agent-Direct Score F (30.2%)

Site: http://mccoybarbercollege.net/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/mccoybarbercollege.net
Scanned: 2026-10-25 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.)
McCoy Barber College is largely invisible to agents.
Some AI assistants are turned away by McCoy Barber College's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It can't find a link to book or order online.

## Direct links
- Phone: +17732216700
- Address: 2059 E 79th St, 60649-5042, Chicago
- Languages: English, Indonesian

## Nearby, also direct
Places near McCoy Barber College that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Esquire Barbershop (750 m): https://directindex.org/r/esquirebarberchicago.com
- Atmosphere Hair Salon LLC (1.1 km): https://directindex.org/r/atmospherehairsalon.biz

## What to fix first
- **No online booking link on the website.** (+15 points) There's no link on the site for an agent to follow. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add an online appointment page on your own domain. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **Structured data is incomplete.** (+7 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant
- **No price list of services found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they offer and what does it cost?' from marketplaces and 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
- **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
- **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
- **No working HTTPS.** (+3 points) The page is only served over plain http. Browsers and agents rank it lower or refuse 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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business

## 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": "McCoy Barber College",
  "url": "http://mccoybarbercollege.net/",
  "telephone": "+17732216700",
  "address": "2059 E 79th St, 60649-5042, Chicago",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 41.751442,
    "longitude": -87.573766
  }
}
</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: /
```

llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site.

```
# McCoy Barber College

> organization in 2059 E 79th St, 60649-5042, Chicago, Chicago hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone +17732216700.

## About

- Website: http://mccoybarbercollege.net/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
```

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

## Since the scan of 2026-10-23 (F then)
- Fixed: nothing
- New: robots.txt blocked AI crawlers

## Where it stands
Not ranked yet in Chicago hairdressers and beauty salons.

| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 96% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 19% | 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 | 53% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Top Ten Nails (F, 266 m, https://directindex.org/r/top-ten-nails.com); Best African Hair Braiding By Faso Didi (D, 290 m, https://directindex.org/r/cthair.com); Raze Up Barber Spa (F, 364 m, https://directindex.org/r/razeupbarberspa.com); Esquire Barbershop (B, 747 m, https://directindex.org/r/esquirebarberchicago.com); Hair Express (F, 814 m, https://directindex.org/r/hairexpress34.com); Rama Signature Braiding (D, 1013 m, https://directindex.org/r/signaturedesign.com); Sphere Hair (F, 1089 m, https://directindex.org/r/atmospherehairsalon.com); Atmosphere Hair Salon LLC (C, 1106 m, https://directindex.org/r/atmospherehairsalon.biz); Convé By Bianca J (C, 1130 m, https://directindex.org/r/convebybiancaj.com); Tandria's Ultra Unique Hair (F, 1243 m, https://directindex.org/r/imultraunique.com).

## 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 Chicago hairdressers and beauty salons and named 53 places. McCoy Barber College wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/chicago-salons/recommended


Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-23: 2026-10-23 36%, 2026-10-25 30%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/mccoybarbercollege.net/agent-view

## The direct record
What agents get for McCoy Barber College, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/mccoybarbercollege.net
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +17732216700

## 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 | 11.6 | 25 |
| Readable | 8 | 25 |
| Actionable | 0 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 0 of 5, Not Ready. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/mccoybarbercollege.net
- Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md)
- sitemap.xml: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/sitemap/SKILL.md)
- 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: 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/mccoybarbercollege.net/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/mccoybarbercollege.net/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=mccoybarbercollege.net&force=1