The Southern
thesouthern.co.uk is partly visible to agents.
Listed by OpenStreetMap.
Book directly: booking.resdiary.com/widget/Standard/TheSouthern/19685 through resdiary acting for the business · Menu: www.thesouthern.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2026/04/Sou
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40 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
things to fix
Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.
What to fix first
- No structured data for the business +14 points
Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it
- Menu or price list is a PDF +3 points
Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as HTML, keep the PDF as a download. How to fix it
- No llms.txt no points, still worth doing
Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it
No one is listed yet to fix this in Edinburgh cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
Already right
- robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
- AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- Booking through resdiary on your own domain No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours.
- ResDiary works with agents through its partners ResDiary's consumer terms bar any robot, spider, scraper or other automatic means of access except as expressly authorised by ResDiary; Google names ResDiary as an AI Mode booking partner. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.resdiary.com/old/Terms. An assistant that is not a partner may not finish the step there; a direct path on your own domain works for all of them.
Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare
What to paste
Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on wordpress is in the guides.
Show the code to paste
Structured data (JSON-LD)
One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "BarOrPub",
"name": "The Southern",
"url": "https://www.thesouthern.co.uk/",
"telephone": "+441316628926",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "South Clerk Street 22-26",
"postalCode": "EH8 9PR",
"addressLocality": "Edinburgh"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 55.9404684,
"longitude": -3.180898
},
"openingHours": "Fr,Sa 10:00-01:00; Su-Th 10:00-24:00",
"openingHoursSpecification": [
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Friday",
"Saturday"
],
"opens": "10:00",
"closes": "01:00"
},
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Sunday",
"Monday",
"Tuesday",
"Wednesday",
"Thursday"
],
"opens": "10:00",
"closes": "24:00"
}
],
"acceptsReservations": "https://booking.resdiary.com/widget/Standard/TheSouthern/19685",
"hasMenu": "https://www.thesouthern.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2026/04/Southern-Food-26.pdf",
"potentialAction": [
{
"@type": "ReserveAction",
"target": {
"@type": "EntryPoint",
"urlTemplate": "https://booking.resdiary.com/widget/Standard/TheSouthern/19685",
"actionPlatform": [
"http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
"http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
]
},
"result": {
"@type": "Reservation",
"name": "Reservation"
}
}
]
}
</script>
llms.txt
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# The Southern > bar or pub in South Clerk Street 22-26 EH8 9PR Edinburgh, Edinburgh cafes and bars. Phone +441316628926. ## Book or order directly - Book: https://booking.resdiary.com/widget/Standard/TheSouthern/19685 (through resdiary acting for the business) - Menu: https://www.thesouthern.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2026/04/Southern-Food-26.pdf ## Opening hours Fr,Sa 10:00-01:00; Su-Th 10:00-24:00 ## About - Website: https://www.thesouthern.co.uk/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
How The Southern compares
166 of 377 in Edinburgh cafes and bars
Top 44% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The City Cafe C, The Holyrood 9A C. Just below: Vessel C, Voodoo Rooms C.
| What the top tenth 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 | 79% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 90% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 36% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 26% | no |
The top tenth is the 39 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Against its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with WordPress 36,926 sites | 58% | 29% | 61.5% |
| Sites using ResDiary 79 sites | 63% | 32% | 61.5% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zero/Zero | 16 m | C | yes |
| Lady & The Bear coffee_shop | 99 m | B | yes |
| The Abbey | 132 m | B | yes |
| Cafe Refresh | 197 m | D | no |
| Cult Coffee Roasters | 209 m | F | no |
| The Doghouse | 271 m | D | no |
| Yi Fang Tea bubble_tea | 284 m | D | no |
| The Auld Hoose | 338 m | F | no |
| Brass Monkey Grange | 408 m | D | no |
| Victor Hugo Deli | 412 m | B | yes |
Businesses like The Southern in Edinburgh cafes and bars
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in Edinburgh cafes and bars | 377 | 50% | 31% | 61.5% |
| Built with WordPress in Edinburgh cafes and bars | 118 | 63% | 42% | 61.5% |
| Using ResDiary in Edinburgh cafes and bars | 5 | 63% | 20% | 61.5% |
| Built with WordPress and using ResDiary in Edinburgh cafes and bars | 4 | 65% | 25% | 61.5% |
The best of Built with WordPress and using ResDiary in Edinburgh cafes and bars
Fruitmarket Cafe B 73.8% · OX184 C 61.5% · The Holyrood 9A C 61.5%
The climb
With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Menu or price list is a PDF) the score would be about 87.7%: 14th of 377 in Edinburgh cafes and bars, up from 166th.
Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.
What assistants answer
Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.
Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included.
Own this business?
Fixed something, or think a check is wrong? Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm; after that the three assistants are asked about the business right away, the site is rescanned weekly, and you get a message only when the score changes.
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Owners who score well embed the badge; it links back here and updates with every scan.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/thesouthern.co.uk"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/thesouthern.co.uk.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" width="236" height="40"></a>
What agents get, and what the site publishes
The direct record an agent is served for this business, the rails it could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.
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What agents get for The Southern
The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/thesouthern.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/edinburgh-cafes-bars/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | booking.resdiary.com/widget/Standard/TheSouthern/19685 vendor on own site: ResDiary | found by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | www.thesouthern.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2026/04/Sou pdf | from the scan |
| Hours | Fr,Sa 10:00-01:00; Su-Th 10:00-24:00 (open now) | from OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | +441316628926 |
Stable links that count: /go/thesouthern.co.uk/book, /go/thesouthern.co.uk/menu answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.
Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.
Can an agent transact?
Measured, not scored: the Agent-Direct Score stays at specification v1.0. This says which rails an agent could transact through today, and what the booking or ordering vendor's terms allow.
| UCP profile /.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol | not measured |
| ACP discovery document /.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol | not measured |
| 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 | not measured |
| Vendor terms for agents ResDiary, read 2026-10-15 | Through partners |
Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.
ResDiary's consumer terms bar any robot, spider, scraper or other automatic means of access except as expressly authorised by ResDiary; Google names ResDiary as an AI Mode booking partner. Source. About ResDiary · all vendors.
The next scan also reads the contact, menu and booking pages one hop deeper; facts found there can change the score.
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence
The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of the score; each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.
| Link headers on the homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | no how |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | no |