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• spot link (http://site/)
• named link [site]

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Using advice from @Daniel Pryden's...

I thought - why not create the website in an old fashioned manner,
actual pages and everything but then perform the following steps.

1   Intercept all internal links on the homepage using jQuery
    and prepend a hash (#) before the window.location.pathname,
    thus triggering the hashchange event. (see step 3)

2   Add a javascript redirect on all pages to the homepage,
    but append the window.location.pathname after a hash (#).
    Google crawls http://www/aboutus
    A user sees http://www/#/aboutus

3   On the homepage, use jQuery BBQ or a similar listen for
    the hashchange event (and includes when the page loads)
    so that dynamic content can be loaded.
    [Umbraco can be configured to serve partial or full page content
     based on whether the request is an AJAX one or not.]

Without Javascript users will have a full (semi-good-looking) website,
Google will crawl all of the pages without any issues,
but users with Javascript will always stay on the homepage
- and the cool concept of having a Web App will be accomplished.

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CLIENT SIDE: There are two things to do here.

1 INTERCEPT: Intercept the click of every link with jQuery:

        $('body').on('click', 'a', function(event){
            var href = $(this).attr('href');

            if (href[0] == '/'){
                event.preventDefault();
                location.hash = '#!' + href;
            }
        });

    The code checks if the link goes to a local resource and if so,
    stops it from acting but changes the Resource Identifier instead.

2 ROUTE: Listen for route changes and act accordingly. With pathJS:

        Path.default(function(){
            $.get(location.hash.replace('#!', ''), function(data){
                $('#contents').html(data);
            });
        });
        Path.listen();

    Local links are routed to the default function.

    This function does an AJAX call to get new content and injects it
    [without the layout, if server side controller serves pure data]

If JavaScript is disabled, the links will never be intercepted,
and will go to your regular routes, returned with the layout intact.