The Blue Crab
thebluecrabnola.com is mostly ready for agents.
Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.
Ways to reach The Blue Crab directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-13. Through spoton acting for the business. Report a mistake
Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mon closed · Tue–Sun 11:00–21:00
7900 Lakeshore Drive, New Orleans, LA 70124 · +1-504-284-2898
Its menu mentions: vegan options, vegetarian dishes
Places near The Blue Crab that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Lakeview Harbor510 m
- Sala Nola520 m
- Safta's Table580 m · mediterranean
- Main Squeeze Juice Co.680 m · juice
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open The Blue Crab's website. It can read what The Blue Crab offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through SpotOn.
48 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
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.
Named by Gemini for "Seafood dinner with a view, table for four this week" in New Orleans, November 2026
Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in New Orleans and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 1 of the 2 assistants asked.
| Question | Named by | Asked |
|---|---|---|
| Seafood dinner with a view, table for four this week. | Gemini with a link to this site | 2026-11-13 |
Every place named in New Orleans, question by question.
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The badge shows how many of the assistants asked named this business, and the month. It updates after every round.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/thebluecrabnola.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/named/thebluecrabnola.com.svg" alt="Named by 1 of 2 assistants, Direct Index" width="300" height="40"></a>
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.
Recommended when people ask:
“Seafood dinner with a view, table for four this week.” (Gemini, with a link to this site)
How The Blue Crab compares
261 of 827 in New Orleans
Top 32% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Sidecar Patio & Oyster Bar B, Sunny Side Up Restaurant B. Just below: The Italian Barrel French Quarter B, Trenasse B.
| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 95% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 98% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 65% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 42% | no |
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites using SpotOn 2,657 sites | 78% | 69% | 73.8% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Landry's Seafood seafood | 56 m | B | no |
| JB's Fuel Dock bar_and_grill | 171 m | C | no |
| Nola Flyboarding | 230 m | F | no |
| Russell's Marina Grill breakfast, lunch | 505 m | B | no |
| Lakeview Harbor | 507 m | C | yes |
| Sala Nola | 519 m | A | yes |
| Two Tony's Restaurant italian | 558 m | C | no |
| Safta's Table mediterranean | 575 m | B | yes |
| Ming's Restaurant chinese | 583 m | C | no |
| Main Squeeze Juice Co. juice | 675 m | B | yes |
Businesses like The Blue Crab in New Orleans
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in New Orleans | 827 | 58% | 38% | 73.8% |
| Sites using SpotOn in New Orleans | 71 | 73% | 52% | 73.8% |
After the top fixes
With the fix above (No structured data for the business), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 27th of 827 in New Orleans, up from 261st.
What to fix first
- No structured data for the business +14 points
Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix 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. How to fix it
Send the fixes to your web person
No one is listed yet to fix this in New Orleans. 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.
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
- Booking through spoton on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
- Ordering on your own site Agents can order without going through a marketplace.
Builder: unknown · contact page /new-orleans-the-blue-crab-restaurant-and-oyster-bar-about: nothing new; menu page /new-orleans-the-blue-crab-restaurant-and-oyster-bar-food-menu: 156 prices; booking page /new-orleans-the-blue-crab-restaurant-and-oyster-bar-party-form: booking via tripleseat · What to paste
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