The Direct Index
Report · Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons · scanned 2026-10-21

The Portland Barbers

portlandbarbers.co.uk is hard for agents to use.

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65, 67 Lever St, M1 1FL, Manchester · +447495326025

Languages: English

Nearby, also direct

Places near The Portland Barbers 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 The Portland Barbers'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 nearcut.com.

49.2%

32 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

4

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.

Where it stands

How The Portland Barbers compares

Where it stands

Not ranked yet in Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons

The ranking updates every hour. This site joins it at the next update.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain96%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML10%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)98%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours12%no
Have an llms.txt47%no

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Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +14 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

  2. Appointments through an unrecognised third party +9 points

    Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. How to fix it

  3. 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. How to fix it

  4. 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 Manchester 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.

Builder: unknown · What to paste

Owners

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

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