Melbourne Bus Company
melbournebuscompany.com.au is hard for agents to use.
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Ways to reach Melbourne Bus Company directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-18. Report a mistake
10/313 La Trobe St, 3000, Melbourne · +61385792001
The website's grade
Some AI assistants are turned away by Melbourne Bus Company's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a phone number, but no link to book or order online.
31.6 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Bot-Aware
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.
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.
How Melbourne Bus Company compares
473 of 947 in Melbourne tours, attractions and museums
Top 50% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Warburton Info D, Williamstown Charters D. Just below: Trung Tam Thanh Pho Melbourne D, Australian National Veterans Arts Museum D.
| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 98% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 11% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 100% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 18% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 34% | no |
The top 10% are the 97 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| UniLodge Melbourne Central - Student Accommodation Melbourne | 30 m | B | yes |
| Carlson Wagonlit Travel | 139 m | D | no |
| Dancing Kangaroo Tours - Private & Public Yarra Valley Wine Tours | 158 m | B | yes |
| Bus Tours Charters | 164 m | B | yes |
| Contiki Holidays | 198 m | C | no |
| Aurora Melbourne Central | 246 m | F | no |
| The Sovereign Hill, Ballarat | 278 m | C | yes |
| Trans World Travel | 280 m | F | no |
| Hellenic Museum | 302 m | F | no |
| 万協フィギュア博物館 | 308 m | D | no |
Businesses like Melbourne Bus Company in Melbourne tours, attractions and museums
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Melbourne tours, attractions and museums | 947 | 47% | 15% | 48.6% |
The best of the businesses of the same kind in Melbourne tours, attractions and museums
Magic Charters A 100% · JBT Australia A 95.4% · Dreamscape Winery Tours A 86.2% · Luxury Escapes A 86.2% · Wildlife Tours A 86.2%
After the top fixes
With the three fixes above (No ticket link on the website; No tickets and prices found; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 89.7%. That would be 3rd of 947 in Melbourne tours, attractions and museums, up from 473rd.
Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.
What to fix first
- No ticket link on the website +13 points
There's only a phone number or WhatsApp, and agents can't use those yet. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add a ticket or booking page. How to fix it
- No tickets and prices found +7 points
Agents answer 'what does it cost and when?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with tickets, times and prices as text, and link to it from the homepage. How to fix it
- 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. How to fix it
- 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. 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 Melbourne tours, attractions and museums. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.
Already right
- Structured data found (LocalBusiness) address, phone, opening hours
Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · contact page /about-us/: nothing new; Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge
What to paste
Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on your builder.
Show the code to paste
robots.txt
Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers. Guide.
# 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. Guide.
# Melbourne Bus Company > local business in 10/313 La Trobe St, 3000, Melbourne, Melbourne tours, attractions and museums. Phone +61385792001. ## About - Website: http://www.melbournebuscompany.com.au - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Own this business?
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Owners who score well put the badge on their site. It links back here and updates with every scan.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/melbournebuscompany.com.au"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/melbournebuscompany.com.au.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score D" width="236" height="40"></a>
What agents get, and what the site publishes
The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.
Show the details
What agents get for Melbourne Bus Company
No direct path on record: the scan of 2026-10-18 found no booking or ordering link on melbournebuscompany.com.au or on a vendor's site. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/melbournebuscompany.com.au, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/melbourne-tours/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | none on record | |
| Hours | none on record | |
| Phone | +61385792001 |
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 | 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 |
Level 2 of 5, Bot-Aware
These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward 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 | yes |
| 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 | yes |