Answerbase empowers your community members to refer other people they know to become part of the community, enabling them to go to work for you in spreading the word about your community platform and increasing adoption and engagement. Community members can grow their reputations for successful referrals, as they grow your audience of subject matter experts and the number of people creating content for the benefit of Read more
Answerbase's knowledge base optimizes all content and pages for SEO, in order to effectively drive search engine traffic to your content with alll the appropriate tags, titles, and markup necessary to get the best performance form an SEO standpoint. Answerbase also provides a number of tools for administrators to manage settings related to SEO and content, providing flexibility and optimization capabilities to get th 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
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
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
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 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
It's a brave new world and the whole planet is talking about AI....and we've run into many customers who aren't up to date with if/how to use AI and what Google has said about it, so we wanted to create an article that goes over the detials of what Google has said and how to appropriately use AI to create efficiencies. First....let's just set everybody's mind at ease.....Google has made it abundantly clear that using 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
Old Tracking Script - You Need to Update to the New Conversion Tracking Script if You're Still Using The Older Version Answerbase previously supported a tracking pixel which will still work for awhile but needs to be updated with the New Conversion Tracking Script . For reference for customers who still have the older tracking pixel installed so they can understand their parameters and how to translate to the new tra 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
We love the customers who started with us a long time ago AND they've been committed to taking care of their customers. In these cases.....we've seen their traffic explode over the years. Sometimes the explosion with Google's updates has been quite dramatic....like during the August update for this customer where you can see what happened on July 18th as Google started rolling out their "August Core Update". IMPORTAN Read more
We love the customers who started with us a long time ago AND they've been committed to taking care of their customers. In these cases.....we've seen their traffic explode over the years. Sometimes the explosion with Google's updates has been quite dramatic....like during the August update for this customer where you can see what happened on July 18th as Google started rolling out their "August Core Update". IMPORTAN Read more
We've seen the Ecommerce FAQs content notably grow in importance with Google's shift towards "people first helpful content" and since AI needs to feed on this quality "people first" content to have any idea of what it's talking about. It feeds off content like Q&A to source the answers. We've seen this across various industries, and the automotive parts ecommerce merchants have also seen this lift. Let's dig into Read more
We've seen the Ecommerce FAQs content notably grow in importance with Google's shift towards "people first helpful content" and since AI needs to feed on this quality "people first" content to have any idea of what it's talking about. It feeds off content like Q&A to source the answers. We've seen this across various industries, and the automotive parts ecommerce merchants have also seen this lift. Let's dig into 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 several ways of syncing with your product and product categories for your ecommerce site, most are automated but there are some cases where you may need to import your product data. First, identify whether this is needed or not for your integration. Here are the ways that Answerbase syncs with your product information:
Automated Through Widget Parameters: If you've already installed our Q&A w 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
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
You can have specific inquiries that come in as Answerbase questions transferred seamlessly into your support ticket software (Zendesk, Freshdesk, or other) so they can be managed as a ticket as opposed to a Q&A thread on Answerbase. If you don't see this feature within your administration area when answering questions, please contact Answerbase to see if you're on a plan that supports this capability. Answerbase 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
Your users have the ability to subscribe to topics that they're interested in hearing about, so they're aware of any new posts that are published on the knowledge base or aware of engagement around posts they're actively following or have contributed content to. As users, they have the ability to manage these settings when they're logged into their account and as an administrator you can also configure and edit these Read more
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 Klaviyo, Hubspot, Mailchimp Read more
Manage all of your knowledge base content within Answerbase's administration area, review the management tools and capabilities in this video. 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
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
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
