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The quiet cost of client-only topic bodies for AI crawlers

The quiet cost of client-only topic bodies for AI crawlers

Google can render JavaScript. Many AI crawlers still will not. If the first HTML response is a shell, citations skip you.

TalkMoro treats permalinks as the ranking unit. Search result pages stay noindex, follow and never go in the sitemap.

This article is the narrative version of that decision: unique canonicals, JSON-LD that matches the visible template, and no cloaking. If you only remember one thing: do not canonicalize every route to the homepage.

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This is the piece I send to procurement now. The no-cloaking paragraph is the one that matters.

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Small nit: 1 MB = 1_000_000 bytes in our copy too. Thanks for being explicit.

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Can you add the UTC timestamp to the first paragraph so crawlers get a clear date?

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We cited this from /llms.txt. The canonical on the article itself is correct.

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Thanks — leaving this up for the next team that searches the same string.

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The quiet cost of client-only topic bodies for AI crawlers

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Google can render JavaScript. Many AI crawlers still will not. If the first HTML response is a shell, citations skip you.

TalkMoro treats permalinks as the ranking unit. Search result pages stay noindex, follow and never go in the sitemap.

This article is the narrative version of that decision: unique canonicals, JSON-LD that matches the visible template, and no cloaking. If you only remember one thing: do not canonicalize every route to the homepage.

#nextjs#docs

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Sarah Chen
StaffRegular

@sarah_product

This is the piece I send to procurement now. The no-cloaking paragraph is the one that matters.

Sarah Chen
StaffRegular

@sarah_product

Small nit: 1 MB = 1_000_000 bytes in our copy too. Thanks for being explicit.

Leo Mensah
Member

@leo_ops

Can you add the UTC timestamp to the first paragraph so crawlers get a clear date?

Priya Nair
Member

@priya_data

We cited this from /llms.txt. The canonical on the article itself is correct.

Sarah Chen
StaffRegular

@sarah_product

Thanks — leaving this up for the next team that searches the same string.

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