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 provides you with a list of content that we would recommend that you create in order to ensure that your site is providing all of the most relevant question and answer content that your customers are asking about, and that you provide the answers in order to drive conversions and traffic on your site. What is the Value? The value in creating content that is recommended is the following:
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Recently, SEO expert Lily Ray wrote an article discussing some observations in the ecommerce SEO landscape over the past year. The insights highlight a growing trend: Google is now prioritizing results from ecommerce, user-generated content (UGC), and social media sites over traditional product review websites for many commercial and comparison queries (think about the queries like "What is the best xyz product?"). T 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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Answerbase provides you with all the tools you need to effectively create, manage, organize, and moderate user generated tags within your administration dashboard. This video gives you a review of what those tools are and how to use them. 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
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
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
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
Sometimes we'll run into customers who have heard the term "Crawl Budget" and they wonder if they're running into any issues with crawl budget. The quick answer is....unless you have over a million pages on your site (which you probably don't)....Crawl Budget isn't a problem for you and you can set your mind at ease. It's one of these "SEO Myths" that go around and we're not sure why it gets so much traction.....but 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
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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 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 has partnered with Comm100 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 Comm100. Step 1 - Ensure You Have Comm100 and Answerbase Installed in your Shopify Store In order for this integ 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 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
When you integrate the full featured Q&A widget into your product page to support product-specific questions and answers, you'll want to test the integration after it's done to make sure everything is working well. POSTING A TEST QUESTION The first thing to do is get to a product page on your website and get to the Q&A widget placement where you can ask a question. Follow these steps:
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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
Answerbase provides a variety of widgets, developer API tools, as well as single sign-on capabiltiies to ensure that you're able to seamlessly integrate your knowledge base into your existing website. This video gives an overview of those tools which you can find within your Answerbase administration site. 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
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
In 2022 Google got a patent issued on something called an "Information Gain Score", where Google can compare several pages that cover the same information and create a score based on which pages are actually adding something to the Internet as far as new information, which they're coining as creating "Information Gain". If you know anything about what is normal when it comes to content creation and publishing, this i 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 many incentives for users to contribute valuable content while they're engaging with your community platform. You can incentive users through reputation points, user profiles, featuring users, rewards and badges. This article will focus on user badges, how to set them up and how to effectively use them to incentive your community. Enabling Badges for Your Community You can create badges for your c Read more
Now that you have your account information, you'll want to determine what users are going to be managing content on your platform. If you are the only person who is going to be managing the site and content, then you don't have to worry about setting up new users....but you may want to consider the "Default Content Publishing Rules" below to ensure that newly posted content is published based on your preferences. If 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
