INP and Core Web Vitals: What You Need to Know [2024 Guide] - RebelMouse
The INP Measurement Replaced First Input Delay (FID) in March 2024| RebelMouse
The INP Measurement Replaced First Input Delay (FID) in March 2024| RebelMouse
The home page used to be the front door to your website. You polished it up, hung a welcome sign, and let the customers in the door. Basically, the home page was the starting point. Things have changed dramatically, and now every page needs to be a home page. Believe it or not, most traffic now arrives through side doors: a Google result, a LinkedIn post, a newsletter link, an in-app browser, a partner referral, even an AI answer box. People land deep in your website and not on the home page....| RebelMouse
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Entering 2018, it's easy for publishers to remain in defense mode as they brace for another year of battling the duopoly. The growing space occupied by Facebook and Google continued to be a neverending ping pong battle in 2017, with Google eventually clinching the year by bringing more traffic to pu...| RebelMouse
Amazon Web Services's (AWS) Web Application Firewall (WAF) is a firewall that helps protect your web applications (or APIs) against common web exploits that may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. AWS WAF gives RebelMouse developers control over how traffic r...| RebelMouse
A key metric for any modern website or mobile experience is user engagement. This is often measured through KPIs like time on site, pages per session, and bounce rate. At the core of it all is one thing: Recirculation. Recirculation means guiding users from one page on your site to another. In an era where visitors often arrive from social media or Google Discover and leave after a single article, encouraging them to explore more is essential. A proven way to do this is through smart, strateg...| RebelMouse
Imagine you've trained or fine‑tuned a chatbot or an LLM, and it can chat comfortably without any serious hiccups. You feed it a prompt and it responds. However, it's stuck in a bubble: It only knows what you told it or what was baked into its training data. This is where the problem lies and where the Model Context Protocol (MCP) changes everything. It started as a concept in late November 2024. MCP is an open‑source standard developed by Anthropic to let AI models "plug in" to the real ...| RebelMouse
Zero-click searches, AI Overviews, and a new battle for visibility| RebelMouse
RebelMouse has a structured data integration straight out of the box. This helps manage your structured data strategy with every article you publish. For example, in Entry Editor you will see a warning when a headline's word count goes over 110 characters. This is too long for Google's standards...| RebelMouse
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RebelMouse is much more than just a replacement for a traditional CMS. Our platform is a tremendous community-building experience. Today's social ecosystem has given us a seemingly limitless number of premium creators who understand how to create gorgeous and relevant content that drives the growt...| RebelMouse
RebelMouse’s High-Performing Search Strategy Checklist A Successful SEO Strategy Starts With Speed Prioritize Google's Core Web Vitals Make the Most of AMP Leverage the Right SEO Editorial Tools Define Your Search Phrase Match Your Slug to Your Search Phrase Pick Smart Recirculati...| RebelMouse
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What Is SmartNews? SmartNews was founded in Japan in 2012, and since launching in the U.S. in 2014, it has been referred to as the "most reliably growing external traffic referrer" out of the 3,000 or so sites tracked by Parse.ly. SmartNews is unique because its algorithm is focused on news disc...| RebelMouse
Thanks to RebelMouse's partnership with MediaFeed, it couldn't be easier to onboard your content onto MSN. It's a great way to diversify your traffic, experience SEO lift, and unlock new revenue opportunities.| RebelMouse
We recently introduced our Custom Feed Builder that allows you to create and edit RSS, JSON, and Atom feeds. In this article, we go into the process of creating and editing feeds in much greater detail. By following the directions in this post, you will be able to create custom feeds to match yo...| RebelMouse
Contentful was built as a developer-first platform with a "headless CMS" approach that appeals to engineers. However, what Contentful customers end up lacking is a product that solves better page performance, SEO, and organic growth. Contentful gives you an API framework to work with, but leaves y...| RebelMouse
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It all started with a vision, a wild vision. What if...our CTA button...was a little bit bluer? I took the idea straight up the ladder. The Marketing Manager loved it. The VP of Strategy called it “visionary.” And when I finally pitched it to the exalted Grand Elder Statesman of Web Design, he simply whispered, “At last.” We workshopped for several weeks, before deciding to test between a nice #007BFF and a bold #338DFF. Just look at the concept art below to understand how radical thi...| RebelMouse
If you thought Google Search’s 2024 core updates were a rollercoaster ride, welcome to 2025. You might have thought that the future was only focused on AI, but you’d be wrong. Google is embracing an era when humans might actually come out on top over bots. Last year, Google Search’s core updates were intense, with major core updates dropping in March and August that left entire content strategies filled with holes. But here in mid 2025, we’re seeing a much clearer picture: Google is n...| RebelMouse
According to WPZOOM, there are over 70,000 plugins for WordPress. Seventy. Thousand. Plugins were supposed to make building and maintaining websites easier. And while they might well do that, they also introduce bloat, break things, and quietly chip away at your site’s speed, security, and stability. The fastest way to wreck your site’s web performance is the same as it was a decade ago: Install a plugin for everything. Plugins Break Everything Fun thought: Plugins aren’t made for yo...| RebelMouse
Introduction: Custom Web Design Isn’t Just About Looks, It’s About Performance A good-looking website is nice and visually appealing. However, what sets a good-looking website apart from a GREAT one? The answer is easy: A great website works. The great website has the power to bring in leads, tell the story of your brand, and grow as you grow. Not to mention, it should not break every time you update it. A custom-designed website isn’t about reinventing the wheel. It’s about building ...| RebelMouse
Introduction: The Challenges of Being Ahead of the Curve Let’s face the facts, building a great website isn’t a “set it and forget it” kind of job. The digital world evolves fast. Design trends shift at what feels like the speed of light. Browser updates roll out. New devices drop every year. And your audience? Their expectations keep rising. What worked two years ago might be hurting your performance today. Worse, waiting until something breaks, your Core Web Vitals tank, your tra...| RebelMouse
Google Search volume is dropping as AI tools like ChatGPT take over. Are you ready for this seismic shift in how people find information? Invest in AI Optimization now to stay ahead. #AI #AIO #SEO| RebelMouse
As websites age, they face challenges like slow speeds and cluttered code. But with the right maintenance, they can regain trust and traffic. Are you ready to revitalize your site and keep it thriving for years to come?| RebelMouse
In a digital landscape flooded with bite-sized content and fleeting attention spans, one publication stands out by doing the opposite — and it’s winning.IEEE Spectrum, the editorial flagship of the world’s largest technical professional organization, is quietly enjoying a surge in referral traffic f...| RebelMouse
How to Operate a Media Site Without a Huge Backlog of Developer Tickets That Never Happen| RebelMouse
A/B testing allows you to create different page versions to see which resonates most with your visitors without risking any design or marketing mishaps on your live site. In A/B testing, A is your live site, and B is your test site. Creating a New A/B Testing LayoutLet's get started. Go to the Layou...| RebelMouse
The definitive guide to improving your Core Web Vitals scores| RebelMouse
Protect your web traffic by staying up to speed with Google's algorithm updates and changes in 2023| RebelMouse
At RebelMouse, we’re delighted to offer our users a suite of AI-powered features to enhance the content-publishing workflow. Our customizable AI tools guide writers and editors through the content-creation process from start to finish — allowing creators to streamline their tasks and focus on prod...| RebelMouse
A roundup of best practices and tips for anyone who has a newsletter. That probably means you!| RebelMouse
At RebelMouse, we consider search engine optimization (SEO) to be just as important as site performance and content distribution. The media giants are always in a tug-of-war struggle, and when Google has the upper hand, it means less dependency on platforms and (hopefully) more pageviews for your ...| RebelMouse
For RebelMouse publishers who have AI enabled, we’re excited to announce a new headline generator in Entry Editor to optimize headlines and meta descriptions with the assistance of AI.| RebelMouse
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) measures how long it takes a page to display the largest element — an image, text block, or video visible in the viewport — from the moment the user first landed on the page.| RebelMouse
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The Layout & Design tool is RebelMouse's intuitive canvas that guides you through creating the perfect look and feel for your website. The foundation of the Layout & Design tool is made up of rows and columns. The building blocks of your page are made up of Elements, which bring your website t...| RebelMouse
AI-Generated Lists Bring Smart Headlines to RebelMouse’s Entry Editor| RebelMouse
As an AI language model, ChatGPT has been trained on a massive corpus of text data that includes a wide range of information from various sources. However, there’s no way to confidently trust the answers it returns because the sources are, by nature, not trustworthy and anonymous. By putting all o...| RebelMouse
Well-written prompts will not only lead you to where you want to go, but they will often take you further than you could imagine.| RebelMouse
At RebelMouse, we’re always striving to have the latest and greatest technologies implemented into our CMS platform, and the current boom of artificial intelligence functionality has not passed us unnoticed. We’ve recently integrated with OpenAI to analyze content to detect potential content tags fo...| RebelMouse
The AI boom of early 2023 has brought some amazing new technologies into our world, and RebelMouse is hard at work integrating the best of the best into our platform. We first introduced AI-generated tags with OpenAI, and now we have integrated Stable Diffusion into our Add Media Bar to allow yo...| RebelMouse
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At RebelMouse, security is our top priority. We’ve made substantial investments to ensure that our platform stands out as one of the most secure CMS solutions on the market. And in that vein, a year ago we committed to being SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, and we're happy to say that we are now fully SOC 2 Type 2 compliant. SOC 2 Type 2 compliance covers an organization’s controls and operating effectiveness with regard to data security, processing, integrity, privacy, and availability, and commi...| RebelMouse
In the competitive digital landscape, providing a top-notch user experience on your website is critical to standing out and attracting your target audience. This is where Core Web Vitals (CWV) come into play. CWV are the essential metrics defined by Google that focus on the speed, responsiveness, and visual stability of a web page. At RebelMouse, we specialize in CWV verification and optimization services to ensure that your website not only meets these vital performance thresholds, but also ...| RebelMouse
In an era when misinformation can be rampant around the web, it’s so important to have trusted sources you can turn to for accurate news. One of the most credible sources, that you know you can trust, is quite simply your own team. John Byrne, founder and CEO of Raw Story, approached us with an interesting idea. He wanted to build an AI editorial tool from the ground up that was based on their content archives. The independent news website, which recently turned 20 years old, is based on de...| RebelMouse
Meta launched Threads in response to the spiraling catastrophe of Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter. It quickly grew to 175 million active users and has become a significant new social platform for Meta. We keep all of our clients modern through our cloud-based CMS solution, and so integrating with the Threads API as soon as it became available was a no-brainer. We encouraged all of our clients to immediately create and promote their Threads channels. Some of our clients, including George ...| RebelMouse
RebelMouse has been dedicated to being the highest-performing CMS across Core Web Vitals metrics since 2021, when Google signaled the importance it would have on ranking impact and organic traffic. By the fall of 2023, the introduction of INP as a new Core Web Vitals measurement was clear. Unfortunately, being able to test against it was very difficult. Understanding its full impact was even harder. In March 2024, when INP was officially released, we knew within hours of the update that it wa...| RebelMouse
The Fulcrum continues to grow, thanks to a redesign of their website that improves technical SEO and an editorial focus on establishing itself as an authority on a key trending topic in U.S. politics. Just a few months after we shared how this publisher is following a digital media playbook for growth, we collaborated with their team to launch a redesign on July 1, 2024 and made a concerted effort on a “Project 2025” content series. In the four weeks since, they’ve seen remarkable growt...| RebelMouse
Let’s be clear at the outset: This was a complex migration. The task was to merge 50 existing websites into a single new website called Best Local Things for AmericanTowns Media. Whether it was perfecting the taxonomy, properly importing the data, setting up redirects for a seamless transition, or finding ways to tie everything together, this was an extremely unique project and it required all hands on deck to get the job done. Constant communication, a well-defined plan, and making sure no...| RebelMouse
This article was originally posted on the Chartbeat blog. Chartbeat’s real-time content analytics, historical dashboards, and optimization tools help the world’s leading media organizations understand, measure, and build business value from their content. Whether it’s unexpected breaking news li...| RebelMouse
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In 2024, publishers are feeling the pressure more than ever. The rise of AI and the continuing dominance of Google have made it hard to earn organic traffic and nurture loyal readership. One great way to stay ahead and resonate with your audience is to stay on top of trends. Google Trends is an invaluable tool for this. It’s a free feature that provides insights into what people are searching for using Google. This includes both historical and real-time data, as well as interests by region....| RebelMouse
Publishers are feeling the squeeze across organic search lately, and now there’s data to prove just how much Google’s dominance is growing. A new joint study by SparkToro and Datos analyzed Google Search behavior in 2024 so far, with a focus on what happens after users search. The study leveraged a multimillion clickstream panel, which means it was able to track the sequence of clicks from millions of users after they started a search query. This data set is more comprehensive because it ...| RebelMouse
We always say that there are a lot of pieces that make up the SEO puzzle, and these pieces all play an important role in helping you to succeed across search. While quality content is also helpful — it’s the number one golden ticket to a winning SEO strategy — there’s a lot more that creators need...| RebelMouse
Digital marketing is at a crossroads. The explosion of AI has begun to make publishers nervous about not only automated content creation, but the powerful nature of AI-driven search that could reduce search traffic to their sites. While these concerns are valid, there’s still plenty of room across the open web for successful websites and effective digital marketing. The unpredictable climate means it's the perfect time to make sure your marketing efforts are as sharp as can be. A digital ma...| RebelMouse
If you're a content creator or social curator, you know all about the challenges tied to algorithm changes, industry shifts, and the ongoing fight to sustain reach in an oversaturated market. At RebelMouse, we create lean tech that's built to iterate alongside these fluctuations. Chances are the...| RebelMouse
This article was originally posted on the Chartbeat blog. Chartbeat’s real-time content analytics, historical dashboards, and optimization tools help the world’s leading media organizations understand, measure, and build business value from their content. After deprecating the Facebook News tab in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany last year, Meta has now done the same in the United States and Australia. According to Meta, “The number of people using Facebook News in Australia and ...| RebelMouse
The Reddit sales team joined Search Engine Journal for an informative webinar on maximizing brand impact with the ever-growing social platform. There’s a delicate balance between making meaningful contributions to the community and promoting your business. We'll help to navigate that. Key insights from this webinar included: Get to Know Reddit First: To truly have success, you need to understand the platform and its communities, which can vary in nature from one subreddit to the next. Don...| RebelMouse
Google recently published a case study that highlighted the benefits of using structured data and optimizing URLs to improve crawling. The case study focused on video structured data in particular, and how it almost doubled clicks from search engine result pages (SERPs). The case study is abou...| RebelMouse
AI is opening an entirely new world of search for digital marketers. So far, traditional SEO as we know it remains the best way to optimize for AI. Social media communities like Reddit are commonly part of AI search results.| RebelMouse
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Imagine you’ve spent hours tirelessly optimizing your website with top-quality content, relevant keywords, and topics guaranteed to drive traffic, only for your efforts to be in vain, with months passing by with few readers, low rankings, and little revenue for your business. If this is your curre...| RebelMouse
We get this question a lot: Why is our expert content not ranking higher in search? You can do everything right from a content perspective, but if you’re not looking at technical SEO, you’re missing out on opportunities. Good technical SEO is about getting the fundamentals right: A unique title ...| RebelMouse
This guide covers A/B testing, its definition, advantages, and real-world applications. We will also go over how A/B testing works, ways to implement it in your SEO practices, and common roadblocks that may come up when evaluating test results. Now, let's see how A/B testing can improve your websi...| RebelMouse
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Google has rolled out its November 2023 core update, marking this year's fourth core algorithm update. This article explores the critical aspects of this update and how it may affect your website's rankings. Google's November 2023 Core Update Google's November 2023 core update is currently underw...| RebelMouse
Picture reading a blog post on a new whipped coffee recipe or a DIY home improvement plan. Next, you discover another article recommending top coffee brands or ideal decor. Then, you dive into more engaging content, bookmarking a collection of tasty treats to try or a roadmap for your house projec...| RebelMouse
Search is constantly evolving. Here are the latest best practices to boost traffic you're seeing from Google.| RebelMouse
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We all know that quality content is the number one way you can leave a lasting impact on your audience and fuel repeat visits to your site. But the explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) has redefined what it means to create content that resonates. Specifically, the rise of AI chatbots has si...| RebelMouse
The new wave of AI has been an incredible glimpse into the future of this technology, and at RebelMouse, we’re harnessing that power to greatly help publishers on our platform. Our AI toolkit ranges from auto-creation of relevant tags to headline suggestions, and even to private data models that c...| RebelMouse
For many websites, on-site search has been a persistent challenge for decades. Users have come to expect search experiences that match the quality of Google, but often receive results that are incomplete or not relevant. AI-powered search offers a solution that can transform website search into ...| RebelMouse
