# The Ear Group: Agent-Direct Score D (46.2%) Site: http://www.theeargroup.com Report: https://directindex.org/r/theeargroup.com Scanned: 2026-10-23 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) The Ear Group is hard for agents to use. An AI assistant can open The Ear Group'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: +18187166189 - Address: 6700 Fallbrook Ave Ste 295, 91307, Los Angeles ## Nearby, also direct Places near The Ear Group that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Sean Sakhai Dds, Ms, Inc & Robert L Merin Dds, Ms, Inc (740 m): https://directindex.org/r/woodlandhillsperiodontics.com - Schacter Orthodontics (740 m): https://directindex.org/r/schacterorthodontics.com - Smiles by Eddie (750 m): https://directindex.org/r/smilesbyeddie.com - Advanced Pain Medical Group (1.2 km): https://directindex.org/r/advancedpainmedical.com - West Hills Surgical Center (1.2 km): https://directindex.org/r/uclahealth.org ## 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 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 - **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 ## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored) - **The footer says © 2024.** Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. In Los Angeles, 77% of comparable sites that show a year say 2025 or later. ## 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. ``` # The Ear Group > organization in 6700 Fallbrook Ave Ste 295, 91307, Los Angeles, Los Angeles dentists, clinics and vets. Phone +18187166189. ## About - Website: http://www.theeargroup.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. - **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response. - **Structured data found (Organization).** no address, phone or hours in it ## Where it stands 1529 of 2992 in Los Angeles dentists, clinics and vets. Top 51% 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 | 97% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 6% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 99% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 29% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 34% | no | Nearest places in the index: Chomp Orthodontics (D, 11 m, https://directindex.org/r/chomporthodontics.com); Fallon & Lit (F, 38 m, https://directindex.org/r/fallonandlitoptometry.com); Fallbrook Dental Group (F, 267 m, https://directindex.org/r/fallbrookdental.com); Sean Sakhai Dds, Ms, Inc & Robert L Merin Dds, Ms, Inc (D, 739 m, https://directindex.org/r/woodlandhillsperiodontics.com); Schacter Orthodontics (F, 743 m, https://directindex.org/r/schacterorthodontics.com); Smiles by Eddie (D, 749 m, https://directindex.org/r/smilesbyeddie.com); Advanced Pain Medical Group (B, 1154 m, https://directindex.org/r/advancedpainmedical.com); West Hills Surgical Center (C, 1156 m, https://directindex.org/r/uclahealth.org); West Hills Dermatology Group (D, 1157 m, https://directindex.org/r/westhillsdermatology.com); ARC Orthopedic Group (F, 1165 m, https://directindex.org/r/arcorthogroup.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 Los Angeles dentists, clinics and vets and named 61 places. The Ear Group wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/los-angeles-clinics/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (24% A or B, 217120 sites); This site 46.2%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/theeargroup.com/agent-view ## Businesses like The Ear Group in Los Angeles dentists, clinics and vets | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Los Angeles dentists, clinics and vets | 2992 | 45% | 16% | 46.2% | | Sites built with WordPress in Los Angeles dentists, clinics and vets | 1185 | 56% | 26% | 46.2% | The best of the sites built with WordPress in Los Angeles dentists, clinics and vets: Los Angeles Integrative Gastroenterology & Nutrition, Inc. (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/laintegrativegi.com); Los Angeles Center For Endodontics (A 90.8%, https://directindex.org/r/lacenterendo.com); West LA Medical and Skincare (A 89.2%, https://directindex.org/r/westlaskincare.com); 395 Implants (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/395implants.com); Brentwood LA Orthodontics | Dr. Amir Dadgar-Yeganeh (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/brentwoodlaorthodontics.com). With the three fixes above (No online booking link on the website; Structured data is incomplete; No list of services and prices found), the score would be about 90.8%. That would be 3rd of 2,992 in Los Angeles dentists, clinics and vets, up from 1529th. ## The direct record What agents get for The Ear Group, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/theeargroup.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: none on record - Hours: none on record - Phone: +18187166189 ## 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 | 22 | 25 | | Readable | 8 | 25 | | Actionable | 0 | 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/theeargroup.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/theeargroup.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/theeargroup.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 · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=theeargroup.com&force=1