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What's Next After Facebook

Andrea Breanna

It's always hard to imagine what is next until suddenly it's dramatically obvious.

It is now completely clear. The first phase of the internet confused freedom of speech with code of conduct. Platforms built through the hard work of good people are being used to spread hate across the world at rates we have never seen before. The largest platforms in the world are now completely toxic. And in our decades of enduring this, the toxicity has become normalized. What women endure online — as an important example — is worth sobbing over (and I honestly hope you do).

Trump is the first Facebook president. He put all of his (and Russia's) campaign money into social. Not only was it immoral for Facebook to take the money of a bully to make their quarter, but they continue to operate a broken paradigm. Trump should have been banned at least five years ago for his abusive bullying online. Now he threatens a nuclear holocaust on Twitter, and Jack Dorsey stays silent.

This is because the platforms of today were built from the ground up on the model of free speech. Which is fine. Those platforms can exist for you to say whatever you want for good or ill. It's not like we can have an enforceable code of conduct for the entirety of the open web. But we can have a code of conduct for the social platforms we choose to use. And the right one will emerge to be a safe place where there is no room for bullies.

Twitter and Facebook have their codes of conduct already in place and have every single reason to ban Donald Trump from using the platforms they worked so very hard to create. After all, the only thing at stake is the tens of millions of lives that will be lost when he uses our nuclear force on an impoverished country, or the fact that he tortures the weak in our very own country — one many generations worked so very hard to build.

I believe culture is malleable. It is ideas that change culture. We have a responsibility to work on spreading the ideas that matter, and to spread them on platforms that value their code of conduct as much as we value our Constitution.

RebelMouse CEO + Founder Paul Berry vocalizes what we were all thinking in May 2017.

The Washington Post releases details on the story four months later.

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Why RebelMouse Is the Best Content Marketing Platform

RebelMouse is a unique platform and company. The company was founded on the vision that media companies would need an always-modern solution to thrive in the new connected internet, and that brands would have to behave like new media companies and use the same platforms.

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How to Add a Donate Button

Users can give easily with our PayPal integration

At RebelMouse, we recognize that some clients may want to add the ability for users to donate via a platform like PayPal to their site. Luckily, adding a donation module using our Layout & Design Tool is simple. This article is a step-by-step guide.

The first step is to sign into the PayPal account you want to use to receive donations.

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New Post Element Functionality

Understand how the new Post element works in our Layout & Design Tool

At RebelMouse, we are constantly improving our Layout & Design Tool and streamlining its functionalities. Recently, we deprecated the Post Content element which used to allow you to add, for example, a Post Body element. Now, we have simplified the process, and expanded the functionality of the Post element to include contents such as Post Body.

To use the new Post element, select Current Post as your Content Source under the element. Now, in the Element Order selection box, you will find a list of Post Content elements that you can choose to display.

Here is a screencast that shows how it's done:

How to Add Post Content Using the Post Element

  • Add a Post element
  • Under Content Source, choose Current Post
  • Under Element Order, choose the Post Content element(s) to display

As a note, if you want to display Post Body content, be sure to select Hide Image. Otherwise, the lead media will display when you are most likely only looking to display the Post Body by itself.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to support@rebelmouse.com or talk to your account manager today.

Custom YouTube Hashtag and Channel Playlists

Design your own video strategy with custom playlists

At RebelMouse, we have the ability to implement almost any idea thanks to the power of our Layout & Design Tool. One use case is the ability to easily create custom YouTube playlists based on hashtags.

For example, if your company uses the #OurCompany hashtag, you could create a custom YouTube playlist on your website that pulls in content from that stream. You can also customize the playlist so that it only pulls in videos from a certain YouTube channel, or from a single channel without a hashtag:

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Conquer Your Crawl: Feed the Googlebot With Structured Data

Set up success on search with a detailed web schema

Since search took over Facebook as the top referral of web traffic a few years ago, the growth of Google hasn't let up. It's estimated organic and paid search accounts for 68% of all trackable website traffic, and, perhaps even more noteworthy, 53% of that traffic is fueled by organic search.

The revival of search has brought with it a maturation of what makes for a solid search engine optimization (SEO) strategy. The algorithm is now savvy about robotically written articles designed to win a specific set of keywords. As Google's search engine has gotten smarter, its web crawler software, casually called the "Googlebot," has also evolved in terms of how it indexes data.

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How to Change the Default Language for AMP Pages

Set your default language for AMP pages in Global Settings

For AMP pages, the inLanguage value is set to English by default. This value is hardcoded, but it can be changed manually so sites with different language requirements can also have different values. This can be done using the code view of your site's Global Settings.

To change the default language setting for your AMP pages, you need to manually add a variable in Layout & Design Tool:

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Identify Broken URLs in Our Bad Link Outs Dashboard

View and fix broken links all in one place

Broken links are a huge frustration for content creators who are always aiming to deliver the perfect user experience to their readers. But during the shuffle of a typical workday, it can be tough to make sure that all links, both new and old, are still functioning properly across every article on your site.

But if you're on RebelMouse, this is no longer a problem. We now have a new dashboard available that allows you to see any bad links across your entire website, all in one place.

You can quickly access this dashboard by appending /r/dashboard/bad_link_outs to your site's URL in your browser's address bar.

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Choose Your URL Structure With Our Permalink Dashboard

Keep your URLs organized with an all-in-one interface

Having an organized URL structure makes it easier for your readers, your team, and Google's web crawler to navigate your site.

RebelMouse's Permalink Dashboard gives users the ability to change the URL structure of their articles, AMP content, and particles. Append /core/r_dashboard/permalink_settings to your site's URL in your browser's address bar to quickly navigate to the dashboard.

Here's what the dashboard looks like:

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New: Filter Posts by Primary Tag or Section

It's now possible to filter the Posts element in our Layout & Design tool by primary tags and primary sections. For now, this is only possible via XML attributes on the Posts element.

Below are the new attributes that allow you to filter by primary tags or sections, and how to use them.

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