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Thanks for choosing Answerbase for your business. This guide goes over a few foundational elements to consider as you get started with configuring your Answerbase account and customizing your solution. Add and Manage Your Categories or Tags In your administration area, you'll see an option for either "Categories" or "Tags" in your main navigation depending on what configuration you've chosen for your site. If you've Read more
When you're installing the Answerbase full featured widget, it supports a number of parameters that you can identify in the script which will have an impact on what/how the widget displays. Below is a list of the parameters that are supported to manage the configuration of the widget on your pages. Ecommerce Product Q&A Integrations - Product Parameters The parameters listed below will give you different options Read more
If your a Shopify merchant looking to integrate product questions and answers into your product page, Answerbase provides a robust solution to accomplish that goal and can scale as you scale your business. This article communicates the steps that you should take for a successful integration. Answerbase's goal is to convert more customers on your store and the long term goal is to get your Q&A content into Google Read more
Answerbase provides you with a list of content that we would recommend that you create in order to ensure that your site is providing all of the most relevant question and answer content that your customers are asking about, and that you provide the answers in order to drive conversions and traffic on your site. What is the Value? The value in creating content that is recommended is the following: Increasing Co Read more
When you're working ot install the Answerbase Q&A widget into your ecommerce store's product page, if you're managing that manually, then you'll need to ensure that you're passing the appropriate product information into the widget code so we can (1) recognize what product the Q&A content and engagement should be associated with and (2) keep our product information aligned with yours. You'll see in your widge Read more
Thanks for choosing Answerbase to power product questions and answers on your ecommerce store. This guide covers how to manage an in-depth integration and configuration of Answerbase to get the most out of product Q&A over the long run, which includes the full list of items we encourage you to manage for the best integration. This in-depth guide will be an investment of time to manage an ideal integration. We do Read more
Domain options for integration of Answerbase. Subdirectory through a reverse proxy. From an SEO standpoint, the ideal integration is using a subdirectory so you would have something like: Yourdomain.com/answers That can be managed on Answerbase through use of a Reverse Proxy, see how Moz addresses the comparison between a subdomain approach and a subdirectory approach in their article What is Read more
When you add Q&A to your product page around the product description, its also helpful to have a more simple widget installed near the product title on the page which allows the users to (1) ask a new product question and (2) see how many Q&A threads are available for that product. To manage that, we support a call-to-action (CTA) widget. See the example below under the review stars: In order to add this widg Read more
Below is the content formatting guide you should use when looking to import questions. There are different guides noted below depending on if you're using a hierarchical category structure or a tag structure for organizing your content, so make sure that you're referencing the appropriate structure based on your system settings that you have defined under "System Settings > General Settings". For a smooth import w Read more
Answerbase product Q&A for ecommerce merchants provides a tool to increase conversions and search engine traffic to their stores. View an overview of the Answerbase Administration Tools for ecommerce merchants, which allows them to manage their content, users, and configuration. We hope this has helped in providing you with an overview of Answerbase's tools for ecommerce merchants. For more documentation regardin Read more
If you've installed the Answerbase Bigcommmerce Product Questions & Answers App into your store, you're ready to integrate into your site and make sure the functionality is configured as you'd like. When you're managing the Answerbase App from within the "Apps" area in your Bigcommerce Administration Portal, you'll see a number of configuration options and fields available to you. This article will go over each f Read more
Answerbase's goal is to ensure that you get a very healthy return on your investment for the platform, and in order to do that it's best to track the results and how much revenue your Answerbase engagement is assisting in. To track this we need you to place our conversion tracking code into your site at the end of the customer journey, after the event that you've determined that the customer has accomplished the end Read more
Answerbase gives you the ability to have your growing knowledge base of content sit on your own domain under a subdirectory or subdomain of your site, depending on your preferences. This article will cover how to manage this for your Answerbase account. Setting Up Answerbase on a Subdomain Setting things up so your growing knowledge base sits on a subdomain of your site is relatively easy to do, and most customers ch Read more
Answerbase has partnered with Gorgias so we can ensure that your customers have the best possible experience on your ecommerce site and can utilize the best available channel to get their product questions answered. This article goes over the steps that you should take in order to integrate Answerbase with Gorgias. If you're using either Bigcommerce or Shopify, please go to specific instructions for each here: Read more
