Search engine indexing of single page applications

Question

Alright so I\'ve been writing Backbone.js apps for over a year now and I love the framework model. I\'ve learned how to avoid all the pitfalls and such, but there\'s one are

Answer 1

Most of the major search engines (including Google) are rendering the content they receive from the website, in our (Google's) case with something close to a headless browser, so whatever you do for the users the search engines will also get it. Serving different stuff to search engines however will get you into a dangerous area, named cloaking.

Hiding the content with a display:none might backfire on you. We are giving hidden content way less weight in ranking.