Answerbase provides a number of system settings which allow you to appropriately configure your knowledge base to align with your requirements. See the video below to get an overview of the system settings that Answerbase has available. Read more
Answerbase gives you all of the tools that you need to manage your content and users who engage with your knowledge base. Answerbase provides you with the a full featured administration interface, allowing you to manage content, manage users, review reporting, customize your knowledge base, integreation tools, as well as a number of settings options to configure the platform as you need. See a quick video overview of Read more
Answerbase gives you the tools to monitor and manage all of the users who engage with your Answerbase platform, including review and updating their settings, profiles, account information, roles, and other attributes for each user. Review this video to get an overview of those user management features available on Answerbase. Read more
As you answer questions through Answerbase you should start seeing an increase of your Google Search Console impressions and eventually clicks and click through rate. If you're not experiencing this we have a few items that you should check in on to ensure that you're set up to get the best out of your Answerbase engagement. Have you Added Your Answerbase Knowledge Base Sitemap to Google Search Console? As you're ans Read more
Answerbase enables you to optimize your product and collection pages (product category pages) in just minutes per page, as we're able to recognize and aggregate the customer demand for information related to each product and product category and fed that to your team. We have customers optimizing their site in less than 5-10 minutes per page with great content that is important for customers and has been rewarded han Read more
Answerbase enables you to optimize your product and collection pages (product category pages) in just minutes per page, as we're able to recognize and aggregate the customer demand for information related to each product and product category and fed that to your team. We have customers optimizing their site in less than 5-10 minutes per page with great content that is important for customers and has been rewarded han Read more
Answerbase integrates with Zapier, enabling you to do more with your Answerbase engagements and data and automate the sending and usage of data collected by Answerbase. When you connect Answerbase with Zapier you'll be asked to authenticate your Answerbsae account through Zapier and you'll see the information you need to manage that within your Answerbase Administration Site under "Integration > API" so you should Read more
When you're integrating your site with Answerbase you submit a test question on a widget, and get the following validation: What this means is that there hasn't been at least one product or category associated with the question, to let us know what the question is about. MOST COMMON CAUSE OF THIS VALIDATION The most common cause of this validation is with an ecommerce integration, where you're supporting product-spec 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
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
See this customer who signed up for Answerbase over a year ago and they have consistently answered questions well....and then in Google's December core update...that is when Google decided that it trusted their Ecommerce FAQ content and were going to source it. See here: They jumped from Q&A being worth just a small percentage of their traffic...and now Answerbase is responsible for over 25% of their organic traf 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 few services that you provide and have a simple navigation to those services on your site, so if you just have several services you offer this documentation should service you well 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
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 Shopify Store In order for this integ Read more
Answerbase let's your team apply whatever styles you'd like to the Q&A widget, but we do have a default template that you can apply the styles of if you'd like. When editing your widget CSS under "Customization > CSS" you'll see an option to select one of our available style sheets....and the "Template 1" will look similar to this: If you select that CSS template it'll insert the CSS that gives the above resul 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
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
Answerbase gives you the optional ability to easily review and mark members who authenticate to access your knowledge base. For some use cases, customers may choose to disable the assignment and review of new users from the moderation process, but if you'd like to review new users authenticated to your Answerbase platform this will assist in setting that up. By default, when a member account is generated on Answerbas 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
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
This video gives an overview on the reporting capabilities that are provided to you within the Answerbase Administration Dashboard, as well as options for 3rd party analytics integration to track your content and user engagement. Read more
This video gives you an overview of some of the customization tools available for you from the self-service interface in the administration dashboard on Answerbase. Additional tools and flexibility is avaialble for Enterprise Plan customers, so if you have any additional needs in customization Contact Us about Enterprise Plan options and we'll make sure you're taken care of. See video on the administration tools belo Read more
Answerbase's administration dashboard allows you to effectively manage your categorization structure, with all the appropriate tools to add new categories, subcategories, manage those categories, view activity, and a host of other features. Read more
Answerbase provides the ability for you to assign tasks, content, and users to moderators for them to review and manage within your Answerbase Administration Dashboard. This video gives you an overview of those tools, to allow for effective management of your content and users. 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
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
Thanks for choosing Answerbase for your self help support needs. 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 s Read more
Thanks for choosing Answerbase to power collaboration within your organization. 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 Read more
