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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. Text Display Controls data-text-title: This controls what the text of the widget title will be, which will display 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
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 looks to work with with agencies and technology partners to better consult and service ecommerce merchants through conversion rate optimization, email marketing audience growth, complimenting their SEO initiatives, and providing a powerful tool to integrate into new builds or migrations. Answerbase shares revenues from all referrals that come through our partners to provide a consistent and growing recurri 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
Below is the content formatting guide you should use when looking to import products. For a smooth import we recommend that you do the following: Download the CSV template provided in the Answerbase administration portal and copy and paste your data into that templatee, so all column titles are consistent with what Answerbase is expecting to see. Please double check that the data that you're trying to import 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
Choose the ecommerce platform that you're working to integrate Answerbase's product Q&A widget into: Shopify Bigcommerce Volusion Magento Woocommerce Prestashop Nopcommerce Miva Opencart Salesforce Commerce Cloud HCL Commerce Corecommerce 3dCart Web Shop Manager Shoplineapp Godaddy Other 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
You can distribute Answerbase's subscription widget throughout your site in order to prompt customers to subscribe to answering questions related to the products that they've purchased. You can find the subscription widget in your administration dashboard under "Integration > Subscription Widget". This widget will display on your page similar to what you see below, but you can customize the verbiage and look as yo 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've created an Answerbase account, you can then integrate Answerbase ecommerce product Q&A into your ecommerce store. This tutorial specifically covers how to integrate Q&A into your product page, there is further instruction available on how to integrate into other areas of your ecommerce site (if desired) at a link at the end of this post. Let's go over how to integrate into your product pages. Step Read more
When you've created an Answerbase account, you can then integrate Answerbase ecommerce product Q&A into your ecommerce store. This tutorial specifically covers how to integrate Q&A into your product page, there is further instruction available on how to integrate into other areas of your ecommerce site (if desired) at a link at the end of this post. Let's go over how to integrate into your product pages. Step Read more
Thanks for choosing Answerbase to power your community of users. This guide goes over a few foundational elements to consider as you get started with configuring your Answerbase account and customizing your community platform. 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 Read more
'Answerbase provides a number of community tools for customers who would like to empower their users to contribute content, create and maintain profiles, earn reputation points and badges through gamification, earn rewards, and grow your community through referrals. The video below gives you an overview of these features. Read more
Answerbase allows you to reward your community members with practical rewards, where your users can use their reputation points as a form of currency in order to exchange those points for "real world" rewards. This video works gives an overview of those capabilities and their benefits. Read more
You can find your ecommerce tracking code in your administration site under: System Settings > Ecommerce Module > Tracking Code You'll see the tracking code that you need to insert into your order confirmation page, similar to this: <img src=".../api/v2/tracking/conversion?sale_total=<AMOUNT>&email=<EMAIL>&sku=<SKU>&price=<PRIC
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You can have new users who engage with your Answerbase be provided the opportunity to subscribe to your promotional email lists. You can enable that option under "System Settings > Login & Registration" within your administration area. Once you have users subscribing, you can have those subscribers automatically added to your subscription lists on other 3rd party email services like Mailchimp, Constant Contact 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. Answerbase's Goal We have customers who are converting up to 75% of the product questions answered through Answerbase into a sale, and we've doubled the organic search traffic to some stores as their Q&A content is Read more
