# Eye Center of the Dakotas, Bismarck ND: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/nd/bismarck/eye-center-of-the-dakotas-bismarck-nd. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-10-29.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/nd/bismarck/eye-center-of-the-dakotas-bismarck-nd

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## In short

Eye Center of the Dakotas is an eye care center in Bismarck, ND. Its AI Score is 57 of 100, which is fair.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Eye care center |
| Address | 1221 W Divide Ave, Bismarck, ND 58501, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Thu 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM · Fri 8:30 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sat to Sun |
| Phone | (701) 224-0661 |
| Rating | 4.9 across 364 reviews on Google |
| Updated | October 29, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 1221 W Divide Ave, Bismarck, ND 58501, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | 1221 W Divide Ave, Bismarck, ND 58501 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM · Fri 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Eye Center of the Dakotas | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (701) 224-0661 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Colored contact lenses | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Contact lens fitting | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Diabetes-related eye care | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Eye exams | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Glaucoma | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Macular degeneration | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Prescription glasses | AI guess |  |
| Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/eyecenterofthedakotas | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Website | http://www.eyecenterofthedakotas.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 3 services Eye Center of the Dakotas offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Colored contact lenses |  |  |  | From their website |
| Glaucoma |  |  |  | From their website |
| Macular degeneration |  |  |  | From their website |


### Known for

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## The team

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## Visiting Eye Center of the Dakotas

Address: 1221 W Divide Ave, Bismarck, ND 58501, USA. Phone: (701) 224-0661. Hours: Mon to Thu 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM · Fri 8:30 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Meg-A-Latte \| Coffee House (Bismarck Divide Location) | Cafe | 2 min walk |
| Stadium Sports Bar and The Lodge | Bar & grill | 3 min walk |
| Disk golf course | Park | 3 min walk |
| Mystic Marketplace | Restaurant | 5 min walk |
| George Bird Rotary Arboretum | Park | 7 min walk |
| Texas Roadhouse | Steak house | 9 min walk |


## Reputation

4.9 average across 364 reviews: Google 364. (Confirmed, read July 16, 2026.)

 (AI guess, from 364 reviews.)


### What people like

- Friendly and professional staff
- State-of-the-art equipment
- Efficient optical department


### What people do not like

- Misdiagnosis concerns
- Lack of follow-up communication


### Press

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### Awards

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## Questions people ask


### opening hours at Eye Center of the Dakotas in Bismarck, what are they these days?


### Saturdays at Eye Center of the Dakotas, are they open?


### What makes this place stand out?


### pain wise, what is it like here


### are prices in Bismarck higher than everywhere else


### best eye care center in Bismarck


### medical staff at Eye Center of the Dakotas, or is it techs?


### same day appts, does that ever happen here


### Booking here, how does it work?


### the good stuff about this place, what is it?


### Whereabouts is Eye Center of the Dakotas?


### anything new from Eye Center of the Dakotas lately?


### anywhere cheaper than Eye Center of the Dakotas in Bismarck that is still good?


### membership, worth it or not


### is Dakota Eye any better for Friendly and knowledgeable optometrists


### Somewhere to park near Eye Center of the Dakotas?


### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review?


## What AI gets wrong about Eye Center of the Dakotas

We ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini about Eye Center of the Dakotas. These are the answers that don’t match this page.

ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026.

| Fact | What AI says | What this page says |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Address | Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026: 1221 West Divide Avenue | 1221 W Divide Ave, Bismarck, ND 58501, USA |


## The AI Score: 57 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Bismarck eye care centers run 25 to 65. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Eye Center of the Dakotas scores 57, above the Bismarck average of 53. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Eye Center of the Dakotas |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 75 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Good |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 33 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 84 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 56 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 60 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 54 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about an eye care center: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-eye-surgery. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-eye-surgery


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Eye Center of the Dakotas |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Eye Center of the Dakotas | MedicalBusiness | #business | http://www.eyecenterofthedakotas.com/ | Subject of this page |
| Bismarck, North Dakota | City | #city |  | City Eye Center of the Dakotas is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the eye care centers in Bismarck, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best eye care centers in Bismarck: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/nd/bismarck/eye-care-center
- Best businesses in Bismarck: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/nd/bismarck


### Nearby

- /grand-forks: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/nd/grand-forks


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in North Dakota: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/nd


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJbd-JfYOD11IRSAySUxTRM2Y (accessed Jul 16, 2026)
- [2] eyecenterofthedakotas.com, https://eyecenterofthedakotas.com/services/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [3] AI engine output: ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)