Is the single page app in asp.net MVC 4 examples, “Big Shelf”, SEO friendly?

Question

Here's the architecture of the SPA, "Big Shelf" from Microsoft.

Is a page built like this SEO friendly? If I built my app this way, would it be indexable by Bing/Google/Yahoo, etc...?

I like a lot of the benefits of an SPA, but seems SEO would be a huge negative here.

Answer 1

Pages that relies mainly on javascript to render their Html for sure ARE NOT SEO Friendly. This is the main drawback of the SPA tschnology and in general of all technologies that rely on client side templates. This is a conceptual problem that cannot be solved with any "trick". You can use them when SEO is not important, such as intranet sites, or for pages where SEO is not important also in public web sites.