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What is a good SaaS to publish support articles with?

For my business CloudEMDR, I'm looking for the best way to build FAQ pages. I currently have something that's hardcoded and it's a pain to maintain, so I rarely upgrade it. It's also not SEO optimized.

A lot of the users I'm serving actually find me by googling something like "Remote trauma therapy" so I want to write Support Articles that answer those questions. I think it'll be great for my existing users as well as new ones.

So I'm looking for a tool that enables me to:

  • Write Support Articles Easily (using some kind of CMS)
  • The Support Articles can be loaded into my site (Built in VueJS)
  • They are SEO optimized

Bonus points if it's cheap or open source. I looked at ButterCMS, but it's $99/month, which is too high for my business at the moment.

Hope someone can help me out!

on June 7, 2020
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    I use Saber for my help docs. It's a static site generator built on view, so easy to extend and customise.

    Alternatively there's VuePress which, I believe, the Vue team use for there docs.

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      OH looks really cool as well :) thanks for sharing

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    Helpscout‘s Docs

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      this is great, thanks for sharing

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    Some sort of static site generator could do it. I’d start there.

    Where is your site deployed? Are you limited by your control of your directory structure?

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      I'm using https://vercel.com/ to deploy me site - I don't have many limitations, but it'd be great if the solution would be part of my Vue app.

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        Didn’t know about Vercel. Nice, I learned something new :-).

        Taking a look there, you probably do need some sort of static site to be able to integrate with your stack. Perhaps some generator that gets called during your build?

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          Thanks :) Yeah I think I will do that

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    In the end, I decided to use VuePress to power a docs website that I like to from our main website: https://docs.cloudemdr.com

    Why I picked VuePress:

    • Markdown support
    • Articles are saved in your GitHub repo
    • Localization works from the get-go
    • Search is great
    • Looks good by default

    Some trade-offs:
    It is not my main website (because it had to be served statically).
    Hard to customize

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    If you're just solo can't you just use markdown for now (will also be verison controlled)?

    We plan on adding an API to http://versoly.com/ at some point but isn't on the near term roadmap.

    You might be able to use self host/hosted https://ghost.org/ they have an API you can use. Problem is database backups, upgrades etc on self hosted.

    Would also love to see if your conversions go up if you added a standard landing page.

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      Thanks @volkandkaya - I think for us it's more about having a big database of content, so I think Ghost makes more sense. Thanks