2 easy steps to embed TrendMD onto any webpage

This post provides you with 2 easy steps you can follow to add the TrendMD widget to any website.

In a nutshell, all you have to do is add standardized meta tags to your article pages. Besides making your website compatible with TrendMD, adding meta tags to your site will also dramatically increase your discoverability on Google and Google Scholar.

In the near future we will have easy plugins for various blogging platforms such as WordPress, Drupal, etc. In the meantime, if your site is using WordPress, you can easily add meta tags using this plugin

To inject the jscript into the footer of your article pages on Wordpress, here is a simple plugin that does it for you, without the need for any coding.

Step 1: Adding standardized meta tags

In order for the widget to make recommendations the following elements are needed:

Abstract and/or blog content
Title
First author
Publication date

All articles on your site that contain this information will be included in the internal recommendation pool

The following meta tags are compatible with the TrendMD widget:

Dublin Core
OG meta tags
Highwire Press tags
Eprints tags
BE Press tags
PRISM tags

The following are examples of meta tags we support

Meta tags for abstract and/or content

Dublin Core meta tag
<meta name="DC.Description" content= “[insert abstract or content description here]" />

Meta tag for Title

Dublin Core meta tag
<meta name="DC.Title" content="[insert title here]”/>

Meta tag for authors (always list authors chronologically)

Dublin Core meta tag
<meta name=”DC.Creator” content =”[FirstName LastName]” />

Meta tag for publication date

<meta name="citation_date" content="yyyy/mm/dd"/>

Step 2: Add widget code

Add embed codes to article pages:

Once you're done, just sit back and watch your traffic and revenue grow overnight!

If you have any questions, email paul@trendmd.com

-Paul