The South African
The South African is an English-language South African online news publication and a leading source for news, sport, lifestyle, finance, opinion content in South Africa.
40
Not agent-ready yet
Agent-readiness score out of 100
- ✓ Clear description of the site
- ○ Several pages described
- ✓ Actions agents can take
- ✓ 3 or more actions
- ○ Publishes its own LAWP (/.well-known/lawp.json)
- ○ Actions agents can execute
- ○ Business details (address, hours, phone)
How to improve this score
Up to +60 points:
+15 · Several pages described
List your key pages (services, prices, about, contact) in the
List your key pages (services, prices, about, contact) in the
pages of your starter lawp.json, or link them from your homepage and sitemap.+15 · Publishes its own LAWP (/.well-known/lawp.json)
Publish your starter lawp.json at
Publish your starter lawp.json at
/.well-known/lawp.json. WordPress: install the Actuent plugin. Cloudflare: use the one-click Worker.+15 · Actions agents can execute
Give an action an
Give an action an
endpoint on your domain so agents can do it for the user, not just link to it. See LAWP Actions.+15 · Business details (address, hours, phone)
Add schema.org business data to your homepage (the starter snippet). Google uses it too.
Add schema.org business data to your homepage (the starter snippet). Google uses it too.
Starter lawp.json for thesouthafrican.com
Made from what Actuent already knows. Edit it, then publish it at
https://thesouthafrican.com/.well-known/lawp.json. Check it with the LAWP Checker, or edit it in the LAWP Generator.{
"lawp_version": "0.3",
"domain": "thesouthafrican.com",
"name": "The South African",
"language": "en",
"pages": {
"/": {
"title": "The South African",
"content": "The South African is an English-language South African online news publication and a leading source for news, sport, lifestyle, finance, opinion content in South Africa."
}
},
"actions": [
{
"id": "search",
"name": "Search the site",
"input": {
"type": "text",
"required": true
},
"intent": [
"search",
"find",
"look up"
],
"description": "Search The South African"
},
{
"id": "contact",
"name": "Contact",
"input": {
"type": "text",
"required": false
},
"intent": [
"contact",
"get in touch",
"email",
"message",
"support"
],
"description": "Get in touch with the site owner"
},
{
"id": "careers",
"name": "View jobs",
"input": {
"type": "text",
"required": false
},
"intent": [
"careers",
"jobs",
"hiring",
"work with us"
],
"description": "See open positions"
}
]
}Starter schema.org snippet
Replace the example values, then paste into your homepage's <head>.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "LocalBusiness",
"name": "The South African",
"url": "https://thesouthafrican.com",
"telephone": "+00 0000 0000",
"priceRange": "€€",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "Street 1",
"postalCode": "0000",
"addressLocality": "City",
"addressCountry": "DK"
},
"openingHoursSpecification": [
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Monday",
"Tuesday",
"Wednesday",
"Thursday",
"Friday"
],
"opens": "09:00",
"closes": "17:00"
}
]
}
</script>What AI agents can do here
Search the site
Search The South African
searchfindlook upContact
Get in touch with the site owner
contactget in touchemailmessagesupportView jobs
See open positions
careersjobshiringwork with usCompared with similar sites
#6 of 6 news & media on Actuent
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What they have that The South African doesn't: business details (address, hours, phone) (5 of 5), several pages described (1 of 5).
For AI agents
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