The SEO world has been shaken up quite a bit when it comes to Ecommerce searches....with the Helpful Content Updates, Google's Helpful Content System, and then incorporating that into their Core Ranking Systems. This was released in parallel as Google started surfacing these "Popular Products" tables (and AI of course)....and this creates an environment that ecommerce stores need to understand what has happened, why Read more
If you're paying for a service, you should get revenue back and that profit from that revenue should be more than you're paying. This seems like common sense...but for some reason the SEO world has gotten away with avoiding any kind of ROI measurement that actually involves real money. Their "value" has been measured in "impressions" and "clicks".....but that doesn't cut it anymore. If you're SEO services are worth a Read more
We've spoken to many ecommerce merchants who have seen a notable hit on their traffic through the Google Helpful Content Updates and Google's Core Ranking System Updates, as Google integrated the helpful content system into Google's core ranking system. As a result, multiple systems in Google's core ranking systems would now assess the helpfulness of content....and "People-first content" is more important than ever. Read more
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. Understand Why "People-First Helpful Content" is Critical for AI, Google, SEO, and Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) It's important to understand how AI and Google's latest changes make "people-first helpful content" Read more
Rovingblue provides a selection of Ozone water purifiers for travel, off-grid living, and emergencies. They came to Answerbase because they have great products, but in the new land of SEO (search engine optimization), GEO (Generative engine optimization), AEO (answer engine optimization), or whatever you want to call it....it's been hard to filter through all fo the communication about AI and determine what is actual Read more
Answerbase ensures that you can support product Q&A on your ecommerce site, to lift both conversions and organic traffic. This article covers how to integrate into your product and category pages, but we recommend that you review and complete our full list (most are just 5 minutes to do) of Steps to set up your ecommerce site with Answerbase Product Page Q&A . When you're working to install the Answerbase Q&a Read more
Different customers have different preferences on how to manage specific Q&A threads, and which threads they'd like to act as their own page for SEO purposes and which threads where they actually want that content to live on other pages on their website but also be available on a page in the knowledge base. For these purposes, Answerbase gives them the ability to point the canonical tag for Q&A threads to any Read more
We get a lot of questions about the timing of results when it comes to answering questions...and how those are fed into search engines, how long it takes for the search engines to digest that content...and when you can see results. So, we have many examples of this and how this plays out for Ecommerce FAQs to drive anywhere from 10% to 50% of an ecommerce merchant's organic traffic ....but let's show you another cust Read more
Answerbase product page Q&A increases your ecommerce conversions while growing organic search traffic to your store. Ecommerce merchants who use Answerbase product Q&A see:
Up to 75% of product questions answered through Answerbase convert to a sale.
Organic traffic to their site grows by up to 4x as their Q&A content grows, and potential customers searching on Google (and other search engines) a Read more
If you're integrating into a services website, you want to identify the different "Services" that you provide and you'll want to ensure that those are defined when you insert the widget. This documentation covers a services site that has a multi-level taxonomy and navigation of different categories of services they provide represented on their site. If you don't have mutliple levels or categories of services, you sho Read more
How do you optimize for ecommerce product searches in LLMs like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google's AI Mode? View answer
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We often get the question of how quickly ecommerce customers will see results as they scale their ecommerce FAQs.....and our answer is always the same: "Don't think about SEO, think about serving your customers well with great information...and the SEO comes after that because search engines need that good content". The only real question is...what does your company and your company's employees have locked within you Read more
As you grow question and answer content on your Answerbase platform, you'll find that similar questions are being asked on Google and you'll start to rank and get clicks from people who are asking those same questions, driving new organic traffic to your site. You're able to easily (1) ensure that your content gets indexed and then (2) track the progress of how many impressions, clicks, the click-through-rate, and po 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
We've seen the demand and performance of Ecommerce FAQs explode over the last couple years, and enjoy being able to communicate about what we've seen across our customer base. We've seen this lift throughout Google's updates....but the incorporation of the "Helpful Content System" into Googles Core Ranking Systems was special....and you can see it very clearly in this case. See how this customer goes from about 2-3% Read more
