Updated to nearly fully functional. Pre-release 1. Still needs some UI changes in the slideshow and admin pages (move the save button & fix the save detection for the internship list). Customer had one more page change request which I need to re-define and handle.

packages/server-side-seo/build.js

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+
+// This plugin to Meteor uses the linter plugin api to package up all the templates indexed by name into a single file saved in the /private folder in the project.
+// The file is intended to be used to service search engine requests for static html by utilizing server side rendering of the templates.
+// Meteor packages up all the content not in /private or /public, so simply accessing the templates at runtime on the server does not appear to be an option.
+
+const fs = Npm.require('fs');
+const path = Npm.require('path');
+
+//Disabled linter for now.  Supposedly Google at least can manage SEO without server side rendering.
+//Plugin.registerLinter({
+//	extensions: ["html"]
+//	//filenames: [".jshintrc"]
+//}, () => new S3);
+
+
+class S3 {
+	constructor() {
+		this.templateStart = /<template\s+name\s*=\s*(['"])\b(.*?)\1\s*>/;
+		this.templateEnd = /<\/\s*template\s*>\s*/;
+	}
+	extractTemplate(html, map) {
+		try {
+			let result = html.match(this.templateStart);
+			
+			if(result != null) {
+				let name = result[2];
+				
+				html = html.substring(result.index + result[0].length);
+				result = html.match(this.templateEnd);
+				//console.log("Matching: \n" + html);
+				//console.log("\n" + result);
+				
+				if(result != null) {
+					let contents = html.substring(0, result.index);
+					html = html.substring(result.index + result[0].length);
+					
+					//Save the template contents indexed by its name.
+					//TODO: Warn if we overwrite any template names???  Should never happen unless the developer made an error in naming.
+					map[name] = contents;
+					//console.log("Found template: " + name);
+					//console.log(contents);
+				}
+				else html = null;
+			}
+			else html = null;
+		} catch(err) {
+			console.log(err);
+			html = null;
+		}
+		
+		return html;
+	}
+	processFilesForPackage(files, options) {
+		try {
+			let map = {};
+			//let fileNames = [];
+			let _this = this;
+			let originalContents = fs.readFileSync('private/template-index', {encoding: 'utf8', flag: 'r'});
+			let counter = 0;
+			
+			//Extract all templates for every file processed (all HTML files).
+			files.forEach((file) => {
+				if(file._source.relPath.startsWith("imports/")) {   /// && file._source.relPath === "imports/ui/Test.html"
+					let html = file.getContentsAsString();
+					
+					while(html != null) {
+						//Will return null if no more templates are to be found.
+						html = this.extractTemplate(html, map);
+					}
+				}
+			});
+			
+			
+			//Returns a 16 character hex hash that is zero padded.
+			let hashString = (str)=> {
+				let hash = 0;
+				
+				if(str.length === 0) return hash;
+				
+				for(let i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
+					let chr = str.charCodeAt(i);
+					hash  = ((hash << 5) - hash) + chr;
+					hash |= 0; // Convert to 32bit integer
+				}
+				
+				return ("0000000000000000" + hash.toString(16)).substr(-16);
+			};
+			
+			let output = JSON.stringify(map);
+			//console.log("Out: " + output);
+			let hash = hashString(output);
+			//console.log("Hash: " + hash);
+			let originalHash = hashString(originalContents);
+			
+			//console.log(originalHash);
+			
+			if(originalHash !== hash) {
+				//console.log("Hash does not match!");
+				//Write the mapping to a 'template-index' file in the private folder.
+				fs.writeFile('private/template-index', output);
+			}
+			else {
+				//console.log("Hash matches..");
+			}
+		} catch(err) {
+			console.log(err);
+		}
+	}
+}

packages/server-side-seo/package.js

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+Package.describe({
+	name: "wcrisman:server-side-seo",
+	version: "1.0.0",
+	summary: "Copies all templates into an index file: /private/template-index for use at runtime to generate html for search engines to parse.",
+	documentation: "readme.md"
+});
+
+Package.registerBuildPlugin({
+	name: "wcrisman:server-side-seo-build",
+	sources: ["build.js"],
+	//npmDependencies: {'something-from-npm': '1.2.3'}
+});
+
+Package.onUse(function(api) {
+	//api.use('');
+	api.use('isobuild:linter-plugin@1.0.0');
+});