SPA SEO in 2026: Googlebot Renders Your App. ChatGPT Doesn't.
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Most SPA SEO advice answers one question: will Googlebot see my content? Googlebot fetches the HTML, queues the page, runs your JavaScript in a headless Chromium and indexes what comes out. Slow, sometimes flaky, but it gets there. The AI crawlers don't get there. ChatGPT's crawlers fetch the HTML and stop. If your app mounts into an empty , that empty div is the whole page as far as ChatGPT search is concerned. We build LovedByAI, an AI search optimization platform for small businesses. Our W