Past talk
Rendering Strategies for the Web That's Coming
- Event
- SMX Advanced Europe
- Date
- Location
- Berlin, Germany
Your rendering strategy is one of the most consequential SEO decisions nobody in SEO is actively managing - and AI crawlers are widening the gap.

Your rendering strategy was probably decided by your engineering team, for your users. I made the case that it’s also one of the most consequential SEO decisions most teams aren’t actively managing - and that the gap is only growing as AI crawlers and agents become a meaningful source of traffic and visibility.
This session went past traditional crawler considerations to address two converging shifts: the growing popularity of LLM-driven search, and the coming agentic web. I mapped each rendering approach to its real-world impact on discoverability, structured data accessibility, and agent compatibility, and left attendees with a practical framework for auditing and future-proofing their site for what comes next.
Mentioned resources
- Zach Chahalis of iPullRank’s Brighton SEO San Diego presentation on logfile analysis: Slides
- Chris Long’s LinkedIn post on how to use curl to mimic the experience of a LLM crawler: LinkedIn post
- NoJS Side-by-Side Bookmarklet - one of my favorite tools for doing JS audits
Recommended people to follow
- Crystal Carter: Website & check out her book, New Rules of AI Search - you will not be disappointed.
- Suganthan Mohanadasan: Website & LinkedIn
- Chris Long: He posts incredible tips and how-tos on his LinkedIn.