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
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
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
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
There are SEO-related topics that commonly get asked about that are commonly misunderstood in the SEO world, so we went to help clarify some of these "SEO Myths" that are spreading around as it's putting unnecessary handcuffs on customers and many times restraining their ability to create pages and content that is going to be most satisfactory for visitors (and therefore not rank as well as they could/should on Googl Read more
Answerbase has AI-Enhanced page-by-page optimization workflows which dramatically increase your productivity, enabling your marketing team to create helpful content which is valuable for improving conversion rates for visitors on your site as well as atttract new customers through search engines. We have ecommerce merchants who are utilizing our AI-Enhanced tools to optimize their pages in less than 5 minutes per pag Read more
Google’s results have changed dramatically over the last several years, with their continued focus on rewarding "People-first content" that is created for actual people (not search engines) and then shaking up ecommerce searches as they're showing product details pages as the first result instead of just sending them to a product category page (most often Amazon’s category page). These updates to SERPS ma 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
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
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
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 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
Answerbase product Q&A for ecommerce merchants provides a tool to increase conversions and search engine traffic to their stores. View an overview of the Answerbase Administration Tools for ecommerce merchants, which allows them to manage their content, users, and configuration. We hope this has helped in providing you with an overview of Answerbase's tools for ecommerce merchants. For more documentation regardin Read more
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 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 gives you the ability to define how often you'd like content reviewed by content managers, so they can ensure your content is fresh and up-to-date for users who are consuming it. This video reviews the administration tools that we've made available to designate review time frames for your knowledge base as a whole, or defined per category/tag, as well as the content level. 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
