AI crawlers don't run JavaScript, so technical SEO debt hides your content from ChatGPT and Claude. Here's what breaks, what to fix first, and how to fund it.
Key takeaways
- None of the major AI crawlers run JavaScript. Content built in the browser is invisible to ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity.
- AI crawlers already fetch at about 28% of Googlebot's volume, so this is not a small channel.
- Technical SEO debt builds up weekly through releases and migrations, which is why annual cleanups don't hold.
- Fix by revenue impact, not by audit severity. A missing meta description on a 2019 post is noise.
- Reserve a fixed slice of every sprint for debt, and test what bots see rather than what your browser shows.
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