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. If you prefer to watch a quick video on how to set this up and it's importance, you can see that below. The video does also give a foundation of why it's important an Read more
If your a Bigcommerce 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. Before we get to the integration, we encourage you to watch an update on what Google is doing with ecommerce-related search Read more
You can import a list of the pages you'd like to target and focus on with the AI-Enhanced Optimization Workflows. This import is very easy, it just needs to be a CSV file that contains one column....and that one column will contain the "External IDs" for your products, product categories, or pages. If you provide a list of these unique IDs, they should be consistent with the IDs that Answerbase has saved on our end t Read more
We have many customers where Ecommerce FAQs contribute to a significant percentage of their organic traffic, as search engines like Google, Bing, Perplexity, etc. need to fulfill their information searches/questions with the information that best addresses their needs. Those engines can only service up what they've read/consumed....so as long as you're creating great original content based on great experience...the c Read more
We have many customers where Ecommerce FAQs contribute to a significant percentage of their organic traffic, as search engines like Google, Bing, Perplexity, etc. need to fulfill their information searches/questions with the information that best addresses their needs. Those engines can only service up what they've read/consumed....so as long as you're creating great original content based on great experience...the c Read more
We had a customer who had over 2K Q&A pairs from another platform that they imported into Answerbase, so wanted to communicate on what they experienced so future customers that import FAQ/Q&A content from another platform can have an idea of what they may see. Ecommerce FAQs, Effectively Published & Distributed, are Like an Organic Traffic "Light Switch" You can see what happened when they integrated Answ Read more
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
This customer was an interesting story....because they actually reached out to us in September of 2024 talking about how Q&A wasn't performing for them. Turns out....now we're driving 24% of their organic traffic and the scalable recognition and publication of good helpful content should turn that into much more over time as they continue to give Google and AI what it needs to drive traffic. Help Us Help You When Read more
This customer was an interesting story....because they actually reached out to us in September of 2024 talking about how Q&A wasn't performing for them. Turns out....now we're driving 24% of their organic traffic and the scalable recognition and publication of good helpful content should turn that into much more over time as they continue to give Google and AI what it needs to drive traffic. Help Us Help You When Read more
This Shopify Merchant started publishing ecommerce FAQs through Answerbase around August 1, 2024. See what their Q&A charts have done since then.... But...look at the last 28 days data in Google Search Console....here is their ecommerce FAQ content via Answerbase: and this is the rest of their site minus their FAQ knowledge base...see here: So...if you do some quick math.....it's 7K total organic visitors and 3,1 Read more
Answerbase can read through your historical customer support communication, identify the pre-sales questions that have been asked and answered and lead to a sale...and then leverage them for what you can publish in order to increase future conversions and grow your organic traffic. The goal is to create an efficient manner of funneling your teams expertise related to your products directly on your site...and publishe Read more
If you've installed the Answerbase Shopify 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. Once you are within the administration dashboard, you can review some other configuration preferences by clicking "Shopify App Configuration > Installation Instructions" as seen here: From there, you'll see a number of 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. Step 1 - Ensure You Have Gorgias and Answerbase Installed in your Bigcommerce Store In order for this i 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:
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Below is the content formatting guide you should use when looking to import users into your Answerbase administration portal. For a smooth import we recommend that you do the following:
IMPORTANT NOTE: We recommend that after you format your users and have it available in the CSV, take a very small batch of 5-10 users and import those first to make sure that everything gets imported as you expect. Then, after t Read more
You can have your product questions and answers functionality search through your product descriptions, details, and specifications to ensure that if you've already provided an answer to a customer's question...Answerbase can auto-suggest that information to automatically answer that customer's question and lead them to convert to a sale. Within your administration area, you'll find under "System Settings > Produc Read more
When you're testing your Q&A widget on your product pages and try to submit a question as a guest you may run into a validation that says "This is email is associated with an existing account. Please sign in." like this: The most common cause is that the email address that you've provided when testing out posting a question is one that is associated with one of your Administrator or Moderator users. In that case, Read more
