How Can You Improve Your Website with The Help of FAQs?

How Can You Improve Your Website with The Help of FAQs?

Frequently Asked Questions or FAQ is what is now that has become essential for a website. It is normal for someone to have queries about your products/services. Most of the time these queries are common amongst the customers. They have many similarities in their questions. Earlier, shop owners themselves used to answer their customer queries. Times have changed now!

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With the advent of the internet, more and more shops and brands are going online, making their websites and shipping products over the globe. The customer base has increased and so is their number of queries. However, there are many similarities between these queries. FAQs are designed taking this concept in mind.

FAQs incorporate questions most asked for along with possible solutions. They offer a fast and intuitive way of responding to their clients. 24×7 Customer Support, Chatbots, and Instant e-mail Options now have been incorporated with FAQs.

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All these with the single goal of providing utmost Customer Satisfaction.

However, it is not that the customers only benefit from the FAQs on the websites. Business owners gain advantages too. Here, we have covered the benefits, which occur to the website owners for having FAQs on their sites.

Improves User Experience: 

An essential part of the user experience on a site is the ability to solve a customer’s query. It is very annoying for a customer to look for answers relating to the product on a different site or a review post. 

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Adding the FAQ tab will not only improve the overall user experience of a customer on the company’s website. But also, the prospect of instant sales. The faster the query is solved, the faster will it result in sales. It will also reduce rates of cart abandonment and sales losses to the competitors.

Boosters of Organic Search: 

Companies spend a large chunk of their marketing budget on Search Engine Optimizations (SEOs) and Lead Generations. FAQs are natural boosters of organic search for the company’s site. 

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Answering questions in texts and phrases that are keywords-centric can help the company get organic leads onto their site. Website owners can answer questions relating to the whole industry as well. This will bring in people who are searching for these answers on the internet onto your website. Users altogether new to your website will get a chance to know more about your company’s offerings. This will improve your access to prospective clients.

Featured Snippets:  

Google’s AI (Artificial Intelligence) explicitly sometimes displays FAQs relating directly to the customer’s searches. If the AI ascertains a response to the FAQ on any site as apt, it can display that along with the link to the company’s site. 

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This is a great traffic booster that any site can get. These snippets are ranked high above other search results on the search engine. They are potential clicks and sales boosters for the company.

FAQs as Site Navigators:  

Most of the audiences will hover around the main body of the website for window-shopping. They will look onto the main headers, categories and then are most likely to leave. Very few chances are there that your customer will look into each aspect of your site. FAQs can act as site navigators here.  

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The answers to these FAQs can include links to the unexplored pages on the site. This will help in many ways. Firstly, it will solve the customer query. Secondly, it will help in directing more and more leads onto the least explored pages on your website. Thirdly, it will also help in creating backlinks for your site on the internet’s database. Future Google searches might feature any of these links.

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Improved Customer Service: 

FAQs are designed to answer almost all common questions that can arise in a customer’s mind. These FAQs are based on the product, its shipping, payment, cancellations and refund policy, and all. This helps the customer executives of the company to focus more on complex issues. 

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When the executives focus on complex issues, customer service automatically elevates. This creates a positive environment for the company. Improved customer service sends out the message that you care for your clients.

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Overcomes Hindrances: 

 FAQs help in overcoming the hindrances to conversations. Customers especially the newer ones generally have many queries. When they find, that most of their queries are answered, they feel confident. FAQs establish trust between you and your clients. 

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When you answer questions comprehensively, you demonstrate the thought of leadership and the authority you have on the industry as a whole. It also shows that you have deep knowledge about all your offerings and understand every pain that a customer might inquire about.

Expert Opinion: 

When you ask someone, for a thing, it means, you believe that the person is an expert in that field. The same case goes for the website. If businesses can answer the queries of their customers, they are considered experts in their fields. This improves the image of the website and the business as a whole. Customers will try to purchase maximum products of your brand and from your site. Thus, improving sales volume over time.

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Quick Grievance Redressal of New Customers:  

Newer clients/ customers are the most impatient ones in terms of their queries. An FAQ page will help them to get their answers in an instant. An increase in sales volume is expected to happen due to quick customer grievance redressal.

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Serves as a database:

FAQs can serve as a database for the company to promote their future offerings. FAQ pages can ask for the mail-id and phone numbers of the customers for providing a better user experience. In this way, they can gain access to new prospective customers’ contact details and promote their offerings.

Promotes Social Media Marketing: 

FAQ Pages can incorporate links to the brand’s social media handles. This will in turn boost the social media pages of the company. Furthermore, people will become aware of the Brand’s presence on the various platforms, its user base community, and also a sneak peek of the company’s future offerings.

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These were some of the pointers on how FAQs help a business while simultaneously working for the customer’s interest. However, to gain advantages like the above you have to focus on the designing part of the FAQ page as well.

Some of the key pointers for good FAQ inclusion are

• Use real questions, questions that are relevant to your offerings. Think as if you are the customer, not the seller.
• Categorize the FAQs, this will be adding on to the whole customer experience part.
• Add links to appropriate products/ offerings, this will capture any prospective sale.
• Inculcate keywords into the answers, these will help in local SEOs.
• Add lots of Call to Action (CTA) buttons on the site, this will help in attracting lots of clicks and engagement.

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After all that is done on the FAQ part, be sure to add the working contact details of the company. Details like mailing address, customer care numbers, and registered office of the company all should be present on the FAQ page. This would ensure that the customers can reach the company for any sales-related queries.

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