Outbrain

Outbrain is a content recommendation engine, in a SaaS model, which is focused on blogs and content websites. Major newspapers are using Outbrain to bring an Amazon-like "People who bought this, also looked at that" links. This mechanism is quite hard to achieve alone, even with the great tools of the almighty Drupal.

This module allows you to take advantage of Outbrain's excellent service, and recommend content to users, based on various axis. Experience teaches that for recommendations on content within the same website, the service is completely free. However, the module requires an active account at outbrain.com.

You have control over which content types are to be recommended, and using a supplied block, you can choose where recommendations are being displayed.

It should be noted that Outbrain first studies your users, and so it may take hours until you see the first results.

** Development of the module was sponsored by Linnovate.

Installation

[Please note: your site must be visible to the outside world (or at least Outbrain's servers) in order to get validated.]

• Download and enable the module.
• Register or login at outbrain.com.
• Go to 'Manage Blogs' > 'Add Blog' > Choose the Drupal logo > Enter your site's URL > Check the tiny terms box > Click 'Continue'.
• Go to yoursite.com/admin/config/outbrain and copy your newly generated Outbrain key to the matching field.
• Choose relevant node types.
• Click 'Save configuration'.
• After the page has been reloaded click the 'Send' button near the Outbrain key.
• Go to Outbrain's 'Manage Blogs' page and click 'Check Now!' near your site's address.
• When your site is validated, in Outbrain 'Manage Blogs' page go to the site's 'settings' and adjust your settings as you see fit.
• You should start see Outbrain's recommendations in your site. If you don't see recommendations try to generate some activity (like clicking internal nodes links) for Outbrain to start collecting statistics.