I’m about to move a project into production and now I need to make the page crawlable for search engines. I’ve read up on a few different ways of doing that and I could really use some input on what’s the current ways to do it. I’ve heard about ssr and fast-render, but I’m not sure when to use what? Are there some good up-to-date guides on this? Sorry if this question has been asked a lot before, I’m pretty new to Meteor.
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I second a new, and up to date solution on how this should be done.
1 big question is where is your production hosting? Self, or on Galaxy? Galaxy has a built in pre-render service, but it’s super slow and takes DAYS to update any cache.
I’m using Galaxy, but I guess I would prefer a pre-renderer that’s not super slow 
I researched on this topic quite a while ago but could not find any good solution. Most people were recommending prerender.io, but I did not want to invest in a 3rd party service just to do SEO. All other approaches were either hacky or not working any more. That’s really one of the biggest shortcomings of Meteor.
Here is a recent thread on server-side rendering which got quite long:
I’m currently looking in to Spiderable.
https://atmospherejs.com/meteor/spiderable
I’ll let you know when I get this figured out. What a nightmare.
Wow. Check out Spiderable.
Yeah, I heard about it. But I also heard that it’s quite a mess. Don’t remember exactly what the issues were, but it kept me from digging deeper into it.
BAM I GOT IT!
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.skyrooms.io%2F
As you can see it properly is pulling my open graph data!
I’m just adding this manually to the header. But you can use Lookback:SEO meteor package to modify this information using Iron Router.
And MORE BOOYA, successfully posting on reddit.
See my thumb being correctly pulled here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SkyRooms/comments/64s69d/new_seo_testing_meteor_spiderable_phantomjs/