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This post provides you with 2 easy steps to embed TrendMD onto any webpage, boosting traffic and discoverability.
In a nutshell, you can add standardized meta tags to your article pages. This will make your website compatible with TrendMD and dramatically increase its discoverability on Google and Google Scholar.
We will soon have easy plugins for various blogging platforms, such as WordPress and Drupal. In the meantime, if your site uses WordPress, you can easily add meta tags using this plugin.
Here is a simple plugin that injects the JScript into the footer of your article pages on WordPress without any coding.
Step 1: Adding standardized meta tags
For the widget to make recommendations, the following elements are needed:
Abstract and/or blog content
TitleFirst 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"/>
Add widget code
Login to TrendMD. Add embed codes to article pages:
Once you're done, just sit back and watch your website's traffic and Google Scholar discoverability grow overnight!
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