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What are the latest best practices for SPA (single page application) experiences?

Google is obviously crawling Javascript now, but is there any data to support that they crawl it as effectively as they do static content?

Considering Bing (and Yahoo) as well as social (FB, Pinterest, etc) - what is the best practice that will cater to the lowest-common denominator bots and work across the board?

Is a prerender solution still the advised route?

Escaped fragments with snapshots at the expanded URLs, with SEO-friendly URL rewrites?

Hello Moz!

A massive site that you've all heard of is looking to syndicate some of our original editorial content. This content is our bread and butter, and is one of the primary reasons why people use our site.

Note that this site is not a competitor of ours - we're in different verticals.

If this massive site were to use the content straight up, I'm fairly confident that they'd begin to outrank us for related terms pretty quickly due to their monstrous domain authority.

This is complex because they'd like to use bits and pieces of the content interspersed with their own content, so they can't just implement a cross-domain canonical. It'd also be difficult to load the content in an iframe with noindex,nofollow header tags since their own content (which they want indexed) will be mixed up with ours.

They're also not open to including a link back to the product pages where the corresponding reviews live on our site.

Are there other courses of action that could be proposed that would protect our valuable content?

Is there any evidence that using schema.org (Review and Organization schemas) pointing back to our review page URLs would provide attribution and prevent them from outranking us for associated terms?

I thought Google stopped treating subdomains as separate entities? In the follow video, Matt Cutts says that they're essentially the same as subdirectories now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MswMYk05tk&feature=youtube_gdata

Have you seen evidence that shows otherwise? Not challenging your answer here; I'm genuinely curious.

watch?v=_MswMYk05tk&feature=youtube_gdata

Thank you for chiming in Eric!

There pages already rank extraordinarily well. #1 for almost every related term that they have products for, across the board.

They're also not open to linking back to our content.

This is exactly my concern. Our site is massive in it's own industry, but this other site is a top player across many industries - surely we'd be impacted by such an implementation without some steps taken to confirm attribution.

Thank you for confirming my suspicions.