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Universities in Syria's Opposition-Held Areas Face an Uncertain Future
Ahmed al-Ogla / 26 Mar 2019	26 Mar 2019
Students attending universities set up by opposition political groups are having to confront the reality that they may not be able to finish their degrees (Photo: Ahmed al-Ogla).
As the territory controlled by groups that oppose the Syrian government shrinks, the estimated 16,000 university students in those areas face increased financial, academic and security challenges. The chances they can finish their studies look dim.
Along with having to worry that the buildings they study in may come under military attack, students find it difficult to pay for university tuition and transportation expenses. They know their degrees, if they get them, may have no official recognition.
Since 2015, when some areas of Syria slipped out of the central government's control, some universities and higher education institutions were established to replace the government's educational institutions. Those included Idlib University and Free Aleppo University, which had branches in the northern and western countryside of Aleppo, Homs, Eastern Ghouta, Quneitra and Daraa. After the return of government control over these areas, most of those branches have closed. Both universities are affiliated with the Syrian Interim Government, an alternative government formed by a coalition of opposition groups in 2013 and based in exile in Turkey.
In the northern areas of Syria still controlled by opposition groups, there are also several universities, including Mari University, Ebla Private University and an institution called Oxford University, which has no affiliation with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
In addition there are Turkish universities in Aleppo's countryside established by International Sham University, a university affiliated to the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), and Harran University, a Turkish public university that has opened a branch in al-Bab, north of Aleppo. The latter follows a two-semester educational system and courses are taught in Turkish.
In the northeastern region of Syria, the Kurdish-led administration has created Rojava University, which had 720 students at last report. (See a related article, "A New University Born in the Chaos of War).
Academic life isn't easy at any of those institutions. "We are facing endless difficulties, starting with no country recognizing the certificates of our institutions and the challenges of funding," said Wassim Al-Youssef, director of the media office at Idlib University. "We rely on the students' tuition to secure the employment and wages of the workers."
Students attend a lecture at Idlib University (Photo: Ahmed al-Ogla).
Idlib University has the most students in the opposition-controlled areas, with 13,000 enrolled students and 426 teaching staff members, 80 of whom have Ph.D.'s.
"We are the largest educational institution, but the continuity of our work is not guaranteed," Al-Youssef said.
The university has 14 faculties, or departments, and six institutes, including medical, engineering, arts, educational, scientific and media institutes. The university owns a private building for each of its faculties, a large number of laboratories in applied scientific colleges, several libraries and computer-equipped laboratories.
Although Free Aleppo University and Idlib University could be considered public institutions because they are affiliated with the Syrian Interim Government, the two universities are not free. Enrollment fees range from $150 to $200.
No government supports the universities in the opposition-controlled areas financially, according to previous statements by Abdul-Aziz al-Dagheem, the minister of higher education in the interim government. Instead, they depend on grants from international organizations such as Education Without Borders (Midad), a Syrian civil society organization based in Turkey and focused on education, and Spark, a Dutch nongovernmental organization focused on higher education and entrepreneurship in conflict zones. For example, Spark pays educators' salaries and operating costs, in addition to providing modest financial support to students, in Homs, Quneitra and Aleppo branches, according to Simon van Melick, Spark's program coordinator and communications manager.
"Of course, we have stopped providing support in areas retaken by the Russian and Syrian forces," he said.
Last year, Free Aleppo University experienced an interruption in operations before it moved its headquarters from Idlib to Aleppo's western countryside after disputes arose between the Syrian Interim Government and a rival alternative administration, the Syrian Salvation Government. The latter was formed late in 2017 by opposition forces in the liberated north of Syria as a civilian front to Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, which is internationally classified as a terrorist organization.
A teacher training institute in Bara, in the Idlib Governorate (Photo: Ahmed al-Ogla).
Private university tuition in opposition-controlled areas is high compared to public universities. Some private university fees are as high as $1,500 per year, according to Ahmad Al-Da'eef, a fourth-year student at the Syrian Oxford University's School of Media, who says students also need about $100 a month for transportation.
"These are large sums of money many of us cannot afford," he said.
Fadi al-Mer'i, a graduate of Free Aleppo University's Faculty of Education, says the high costs of study led many to stop their university studies.
"With few opportunities for employment after graduation both at home and abroad and the high security risks of shelling, continuing to study and bearing its financial costs is a huge burden," he said. He pointed to the difficulty of securing scientific references and university books for most of the disciplines as well as the lack of student housing and the scarcity of professors with doctoral degrees, many of whom have left the country.
But the lack of official local or international recognition of universities in the opposition-held areas is the main problem that these institutions have faced since their establishment four years ago.
"Not recognizing our certificates kills any chance to get a decent job opportunity and eliminates any ambition to pursue our higher education abroad to obtain master's or doctoral degrees, especially since there is no university in the liberated areas that offers graduate studies," said al-Mer'i.
Van Melick of Spark believes in the importance of supporting those educational institutions despite the fact that their diplomas are not accredited. "There is a large number of young people trapped inside Syria, and we have the option of supporting a good, yet unaccredited, education or leaving them with no education," he said. "Spark definitely chooses the education option."
Education, regardless of the recognition of certificates, makes it possible for young people to continue their lives and possibly rebuild their future, Van Melick dose. "Skills development is critical to young people so they can work in hospitals, farms, construction and so forth, which are still needed," he said. "This also applies to all refugees in the region of course."
As universities in opposition-controlled areas seek official recognition of their certificates, they remain largely dependent on international recognition of opposition forces, which is fading with the ongoing conflict.
Alaa Al-Abdullah, a former lecturer at the International Rescue University's School of Media, which was ultimately shut down due to political conflicts, believes the problem lies in the lack of interest in developing education and building balanced academic institutions to meet the needs of young people in these areas.
"We need a founding body to adopt a new developed educational system away from political engagement to meet young people's aspirations and needs to build a better life," Al-Abdullah said.
Today, as political rivalries and the bombing of Idlib intensify, students are increasingly concerned about their futures.
"Our future seems catastrophic, especially since many of us are still in the second and third years," said Ibrahim Zaidan, a student in the Faculty of Education at Free Aleppo University. "The closure of universities without recognition of their diplomas or exam results means we return to the zero point and eliminates any opportunity for us of a better tomorrow."
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Q: bash: convert decimal to scientific including all decimals I want to convert a decimal number to scientific notation such that all decimals excluding trailing zeroes are returned.
Example: 1230456.07890000 becomes 1.2304560789e6
I know that using result=$(printf "%e" ${number}) can give me the scientific notation, but it cuts the number off after the sixth decimal: result=1.230456e+06.
If I replace "%e" with for example "%1.30e" the inaccuracy changes the effective number.
Another problem with the printfcommand is that the exponent is always 2 digits long and shows a '+' when positive. I want the exponent to lose the leading zero and only show a sign if negative.
I hope somebody can help me with this!

A: You can use a modifier to specify the number of position after the period:
printf "%.10e\n" ${number}

So you'll obtain 1.2304560789e+06. After you can filter this result with some tricky substitution:
result=$(printf "%.10e\n" ${number})
result=${result/e+/e}
result=${result/e0/e}
result=${result/e-0/e}

At the end you'll obtain: 1.2304560789e6.
(Fixed to add the case of negative exponent less than 10).

A: I found out how to get the desired result:
# Create variable defining number of significant decimals
# by removing '.' and leading zeroes
length=$(echo "${number}" | sed -e 's/[0]*$//g' -e 's/\.//g' -e 's/^[0]*//g')
length=$((${#length}-1));   # Determine the number of decimals to be displayed

# Get scientific number with correct accuracy
result=$(printf "%1.${length}e" ${number})

# Adjust the exponent (can also be done using StefanF's answer)
result="${result%[eE]*}e"$(echo "${result#*[eE]}" | sed -e 's/+//g' -e 's/^0//' -e 's/-0/-/')

The last part for adjusting the exponent (removing '+' and leading zero) can also be achieved using the purely bash-commands as StefanoF suggested.

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What is the difference between a "singular noun" and a "plural noun treated as singular"?
I'd always thought that words like "physics" and "mathematics" were singular: after all, we say "physics is the study of…" etc. But apparently, according to the the comments on this question about "news", each of these words is actually a "plural noun [usually treated as singular]":
(highlighting/ellipsis added by me)
(NOAD = New Oxford American Dictionary)
One, Is this categorization valid? That is, is it correct to say, as the NOAD does, that these words are indeed plural (but treated as singular), rather than to say that they are singular? The accepted answer on that question, by user RegDwigнt, has a different analysis that speaks in terms of "news" being "uncountable", "used with singular verbs", and "etymologically, it used to be a plural form", and thereby carefully avoids addressing this issue, of whether these nouns are indeed plural-treated-as-singular. So my question remains.
Two, If so, what makes these words plural? Is it the fact that they end in s? (Surely "bus" is not plural?) Is it history? (Were they used as plural at some time? How far back in history does one go to decide whether a noun is singular or plural?) Is it the fact that they don't have any distinct forms treated as plural?
Most importantly, why do we even have a grammatical category of "plural nouns treated as singular"? What purpose does it serve, and how are such nouns functionally distinguishable from nouns that are actually singular? When/if the reason is history, is there a rationale for saying "plural nouns treated as singular" rather than "singular nouns that were formerly plural"?
Edit: My question isn't just about "-ics" words, but all words in the category "plural nouns treated as singular" (assuming that the category isn't just -ics words).
Edit 2: The image and part "One" of the question were added later; previously I took for granted that the categorization was valid.
grammatical-number nouns
ShreevatsaRShreevatsaR
Other examples could be words of foreign origin like spaghetti and graffiti, names of diseases like measles and mumps, or names of games like checkers and billiards. Apart from etymology, I suspect they're not called singular because that would imply them being count nouns with plural forms. There is a short but interesting usage note on graffiti at this link to the OED online: oxforddictionaries.com/view/entry/m_en_gb0345170#m_en_gb0345170
– Tragicomic
@Tragicomic: That's illuminating, thanks. Some languages have nouns marked as "always singular" or "always plural", but since the grammatical category isn't common in English(?), I guess describing a noun as singular may indeed lead to the confusion that there exist plurals as well.
– ShreevatsaR
This resource by the University of Washington considers physics and mathematics to be mass nouns, along with the names of other subjects, such as history and music.
– Alan Carmack
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it does not mention the required division of usages into count and non-count, and fails to mention @RegDwight's more precise terminology (uncountable and ... used with singular verbs) / analysis in the previous (linked) thread.
– Edwin Ashworth
@EdwinAshworth Thanks, I've updated the question to account for the possibility that NOAD was wrong, and ask about it, to better reflect the question I had at the time (and to some extent still have). (It's generally the default that any of one's assumptions when asking a question may be incorrect, but it's better to make them explicit once they are pointed out as you have done. So thanks, I think this improves the question. I don't think it is (or was) off-topic to ask why certain words are reported plural by reputed sources, but I do not mind the question being closed now.)
Etymonline has this to say:
-ics
in the names of sciences or disciplines (acoustics, aerobics, economics, etc.) it represents a 16c. revival of the classical custom of using the neuter plural of adjectives with -ikos (see -ic) to mean "matters relevant to" and also as the titles of treatises about them. Subject matters that acquired their names in English before c.1500, however, tend to remain in singular (e.g. arithmetic, logic).
So yes, at some point in history, there were such things as physic (meaning "natural science"), mathematic (meaning "mathematical science"), etc. that were later turned into plural forms but kept being treated as singular.
Edit: having looked in a few more places, it appears that in contemporary English, it still makes some sense to have both the suffix -ic and its plural form -ics. According to the Collins English Dictionary, the former has kind of specialized in forming adjectives, while the latter is happily forming nouns:
suffix forming adjectives
of, relating to, or resembling: allergic, Germanic, periodic. See also -ical.
[from Latin -icus or Greek -ikos; -ic also occurs in nouns that represent a substantive use of adjectives (magic) and in nouns borrowed directly from Latin or Greek (critic, music)]
suffix forming nouns (functioning as singular)
indicating a science, art, or matters relating to a particular subject: aeronautics, politics
indicating certain activities or practices: acrobatics
[plural of -ic, representing Latin -ica, from Greek -ika, as in mathēmatika mathematics]
The key here is that they are not just two unrelated suffixes. Much rather, one is etymologically a plural form of the other. As the American Heritage Dictionary succinctly puts it, -ics is "-ic + -s".
RegDwigнt♦RegDwigнt
Quite illuminating, thanks! Would you by any chance have a citation for the word "physics" or "mathematics" being used as plural? (And even with this history, why call them plural nouns still, instead of formerly plural nouns?)
1) I guess that such a citation must be hard to find, if it exists at all, because even when it was physic, a singular, it still referred to the sole, single, universal science of nature. There simply weren't two different physics (or mathematics) at that time, the single physic (and mathematic) encompassed everything about that science. 2) I guess it's just a classification, so as to distinguish these peculiar cases from other nouns. I guess we could call them "strangenics", if we so chose, but the term "plural nouns treated as singular" is probably more descriptive.
– RegDwigнt ♦
Edit: Thanks to @Edwin Ashworth in the comments below, it appears that the answer to Part One is No, this categorization of "plural noun treated as singular" is not valid and is basically just an imprecision on the part of the New Oxford American Dictionary.
As Wikipedia notes (bolding added),
Plural in form but singular in construction
Certain words which were originally plural in form have come to be used almost exclusively as singulars (usually uncountable); for example billiards, measles, news, mathematics, physics etc. Some of these words, such as news, are strongly and consistently felt as singular by fluent speakers. These words are usually marked in dictionaries with the phrase "plural in form but singular in construction" (or similar wording). Others, such as aesthetics, are less strongly or consistently felt as singular; for the latter type, the dictionary phrase "plural in form but singular or plural in construction" recognizes variable usage.
My impression from this is that a noun that is "plural in form" merely looks like (rather than unambiguously "is") a plural: possibly it was formed via the usual process by which plural forms are produced, and it may or may not have been used as plural (in terms of verb agreement) in the past.
Or we could define "plural" by either form or function (morphology or syntax):
We can look at verb agreement to say when a noun is used as plural, or
We can look at the form of a word, disregarding how it is used.
These often match, but when they don't — words like "mathematics" or "billiards", for which we always say "mathematics is…", never "mathematics are…" — the right thing may be to use alternative clearer terms, like "nouns taking plural agreement" ("nouns plural in construction") and "nouns plural in form", rather than to call them plural as NOAD does. And of course, often these occur with non-count usage, so there is no question of calling them singular or plural, which makes the category of "plural noun treated as singular" even more suspect.
[Original answer (to Part Two) below]
I still haven't seen any examples that aren't -ics words (besides 'news'), but let me post a tentative answer for the -ics case: I remembered something I had quoted in the inning/innings singular/plural question, and looked up Fowler. Under -ics, the book says:
-ics. 1. Among the names of sciences, arts, or branches of study, are a few words in -ic that rank as real English; the chief are logic, magic, music, & rhetoric; but the normal form is -ics, as in acoustics, classics, dynamics, ethics, mathematics, physics, politics, tactics. The substitution of -ic for -ics …
2. Grammatical number of -ics. This is not so simple a matter as it is sometimes thought. The natural tendency is to start with a fallacy: We say Mathematics is (& not are) a science; therefore mathematics is singular. But the number of is there is at least influenced, if not (whether legitimately or otherwise) determined, by that of a science. The testing should be done with sentences in which there is not a noun complement to confuse the issue:—Classics are, or is, now taking a back seat ; Conics is, or are, easier than I expected ; What are, or is, his mathematics like? ; Politics are, or is, most fascinating ; Your heroics are, or is, wasted on me ; Athletics are, or is, rampant in the big schools ; Tactics are, or is, subordinate to strategy. The rules that emerge are: (1) Singular for the name of a science strictly so used; Metaphysics, or Acoustics, deals with abstractions, or sound. (2) Plural for those same names more loosely used, e.g. for a manifestation of qualities; often recognizable by the presence of his, the, &c.: His mathematics are weak ; Such ethics are abominable ; The acoustics of the hall are faulty. (3) Plural for names denoting courses of action or the like : Heroics are out of place ; Hysterics leave me cold. (4) The presence of a singular noun complement often makes the verb singular: Mathematics, or even Athletics, is his strong point.
So that long discussion very well illustrates the circumstances in which -ics words are sometimes used as singular and sometimes plural (though I wouldn't say "His mathematics are weak", for some reason). Note that it seems to be discussing when a certain -ics word is singular and when it's plural, not saying that it's always plural and discussing when it's treated one way or the other.
Anyway, along with RegDwight's useful answer, my hypothesis for my original question is this: if a singular word X exists (e.g. mathematic), and the word Y is formed from X by the normal rules of English pluralisation, then word Y is called "plural", even if it has never been used in the plural.
Of course, all this still doesn't answer the latter question of what purpose this category serves etc.
It is best to first of all differentiate between 'nouns plural in form' (men, billiards, bowls [game here], measles, mumps, mathematics, confetti, trousers ...) and 'nouns taking plural agreement' (men, ... trousers; mathematics in a few cases). The two sets don't align perfectly; one has to go with standard usage where logic seems to fail. The mismatches have arisen through evolutionary change – as with a lot of English, it's pointless asking 'But what purpose is served?' Notice also notional mismatches or at least ambiguous treatment (data is/are; panini is)....
The Wikipedia article on English plurals is good.
@EdwinAshworth My question with "what purpose is served" is "Is there a reason for us right now to declare this noun as a 'plural noun treated as singular', rather than simply declare this noun as a singular noun?". The English language evolves, but surely descriptions of English can evolve as well. For example, you seem to be saying that "billiards" is an example of the category "plural noun treated as singular". Why not declare "billiards" as a singular noun now, given that we always say "billiards is", never "billiards are"? What do we gain from calling it a plural noun? That's my question.
@EdwinAshworth In the Wikipedia article, I guess relevant section is Plural words becoming singular, which says some of these words (like "news"), are "strongly and consistently felt as singular by fluent speakers" and "usually marked in dictionaries with the phrase "plural in form but singular in construction" (or similar wording)". I can accept that. Here, I read "plural in form" as "looks like a plural" (etc). What do we gain from going further and saying "it is actually a plural"?
@Edwin and ShreevatsaR Why can't we just, in today's English, say that such nouns as physics and mathematics are mass nouns? At least when referring to the science or subject?
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The second study sets about to explore the concept of fluency, and to expose the extent to which it is acknowledged in the literature to be associated with smallwords, albeit under other names.
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Iran may wait to react to the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the father of its nuclear program, with any kind of military force until the end of the Trump era, former IDF intelligence chief Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin said on Sunday.
Speaking at a Media Central virtual press event, Yadlin, who is the Institute for National Security Studies executive director, said that while in the case of the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, the chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force "the US took responsibility" and Tehran responded by firing "dozens of missiles at a US base in Iraq," here, "no one took responsibility," so Iran may "postpone at least until the last days of Trump, since they do not want to give him enough time to use [their] retaliation as a trigger to a US attack" on them.
Yadlin explained that despite Iran's accusations of Israeli involvement in killing Fakhrizadeh, the fact that Jerusalem has not taken responsibility gives the ayatollahs a way out from having to respond loudly and immediately.
Further, the former military intelligence chief said he thought that Iran's anger at whoever undertook the assassination would be overcome by the fear that any reaction would bring on the far greater wrath of Trump.
But if the Islamic Republic responds in the last days of Trump's presidency, or during the early days of the incoming Biden administration, the risk of incurring massive US retaliation would be much lower.
Yadlin noted that the harshest option for Iran might be to launch ballistic missiles on Israel, as it did against Saudi Arabia last year.
However, he said it might just as likely "react in accelerating the nuclear program. The overt one. They have already done it since May 2019. They can enrich more [uranium], they can enrich [it] to a higher level, they can install advanced centrifuges. This would be a strategic reaction or step."
He also said that attacks on Israeli embassies or Israeli VIPs would dovetail with how Iran responded to the killings of its nuclear scientists during the 2010-2012 period.
Finally, he noted that any of Iran's proxies in Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iraq or elsewhere could be used to retaliate by firing rockets which would be dangerous, but less inflammatory than Iran using its own ballistic missiles.
On a related note, Yadlin said he "highly recommended to" Israeli officials "to keep their mouths closed and not leak anything. They already spoke too much," he said, referring to hints dropped by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week of potential involvement in operations against Iran.
He appeared perturbed that, "the Americans were fast to leak to The New York Times that it was done by Israel. Any more evidence which helps Iran to decide on retaliating against Israel is a mistake."
Yadlin suggested that "the damage to the [nuclear] program to the weaponization program is huge, but cannot be measured because no one knows the scope and the depth of what the Iranians are doing covertly."
He said that the reason he knew Fakhrizadeh's killing would set Tehran back was because "no doubt he was the core source of authority, knowledge and organization of this program."
Comparing him again to Soleimani, Yadlin said that even though the Iranians would replace him, there was no one with his unique skill set at his level.
As for timing, Yadlin theorized that Fakhrizadeh was killed now due to a variety of complex operational considerations and specific capabilities and limitations, since such a precise operation required extensive long-term planning.
Moreover, he said that if other parties like the US, the Saudis or Iranian dissidents were involved, then it might have taken time and particular circumstances to get all the parties to green light the targeted killing.
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Many marketers make SEO out to be some mythical creature that only the best of the best can conquer, and without certain levels of "voodoo", you stand no chance at tapping into the major search engines as a viable traffic source.
We're here to tell you, though, that you don't have to be some master magician to tap into the search engines. With the right strategy, bringing search traffic into your eCommerce store can be one of the easiest things you've done.
If you haven't already, make sure to enter your email below to get our comprehensive guide on optimizing your eCommerce store to rank higher in the search engines.
In this post, we're going to address some of the most common asked questions that eCommerce store owners will find themselves asking when they are implementing an SEO strategy into their business.
But, first, here's why you need to focus on SEO.
Keep in mind as you're reading this that SEO is simply one source of traffic you should be tapping into for your business. It's not a replacement for paid traffic or other organic traffic strategies, but it's simply an extension of your business that helps you grow your revenue.
Search engine traffic is, without a doubt, some of the most profitable, highest converting traffic to you drive to your site.
It does take work to bring in, but once you've figured out how to tap into the coveted search traffic, you're setting the stage for building a long-term, sustainable eCommerce business.
Here are 3 major reasons you need to focus on SEO traffic if you want your business to succeed.
When it comes to marketing your store, your conversion rates are going to vary wildly depending on the traffic source you're using.
For instance, some paid traffic sources, like Facebook Ads and Instagram Ads, typically convert lower but are going to cost less than some other higher converting traffic sources, like Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Google Shopping, for instance.
When it comes to free, organic traffic sources, though, you're going to have a hard time finding one that converts better than search engine traffic.
80% of people use search engines to make purchasing decisions, which means that when people find your store through Google or Bing they have a substantially higher probability of looking for exactly what it is you're selling.
You're going to be hard-pressed to find another traffic source that can bring in as much revenue as SEO traffic, especially when you consider that it's primarily free.
Paid advertising sources can give you an instant return on your advertising dollars, but when it comes to being cost-effective, many of them substantially lower your ROI.
With search engine traffic, though, once you are ranked near the top of the search results, your sales are 100% profit. This helps offset any paid advertising campaigns you're running so your revenue increases while your ad spend decreases.
In other words, implementing SEO marketing into your strategy is one of the most cost-effective ways you can grow your business.
When you're running a paid advertising campaign, you could find out that you've tapped into your target audience and they are seeing your ads more often than they want to.
When that happens, your reach is going to drop, your cost per click is going to increase, and your ads aren't going to have the same effectiveness that they had when you first started the campaign.
With SEO traffic, though, you're tapping into a constant stream of new traffic that (typically) hasn't already seen your advertisements before, so an SEO campaign can run for years without losing any momentum.
In fact, when you rank for more keywords, you are going to have consistent traffic levels that deliver sales month, after month, without having to micromanage the campaign like you do when you're running paid advertisements.
When it comes time to optimize your store to rank higher in the search engines, we've found that many people have questions about the best practices they should follow, and end up letting those questions get in the way of them actually implementing the campaign.
To ensure you don't find yourself getting bogged down in the details, below are some of the most commonly asked questions we see store owners having.
Follow the tips below and your store will have an easier time ranking in the search results and you won't face some of the many different penalties that the algorithms implement, or find yourself falling behind the competition because you forgot some unwritten rule.
When it comes to purchasing online, security is one of your customer's biggest concerns. It's also one of the factors that influence rankings for sites at the top of the search results.
Major search engines do not want sites that are insecure appearing at the top of their search results because it's not only harmful to their visitors, but it reflects poorly on their brand and causes internet users to lose trust in the results they're being served.
If your site is insecure, or you're not showing visitors that the sensitive information they enter into your site is well protected and encrypted, you could be harming your search rankings.
The best way to do this is to use images and logos from major, trusted security standards like SSL, credit card and PayPal logos, and site scanning services like McAfee and Norton.
Don't take this information for granted because failing to include it in your pages can dramatically hurt your conversion rates, while also harming your search engine rankings at the same time.
With mobile usage increasing and more people primarily accessing the internet using a mobile device, like a tablet or smartphone, you could cost yourself sales and search rankings by failing to provide a properly optimized experience for those users.
Mobile internet use is expected to have 2 to 3 times higher growth rate than desktop use over the next 10 years so it's worth it for you to invest in a mobile optimized, responsive design for your store.
The search engine algorithms will test both versions of your site -- desktop and mobile -- and if your mobile version isn't displaying properly your search rankings could be negatively impacted.
To ensure you stand the highest chances of claiming the top spots, you need to serve desktop versions for every URL on your website, while also having a mobile optimized and responsive version that automatically displays for mobile users.
Also keep in mind that some mobile users actually prefer the full desktop version, so do not hard-force mobile versions on them. Instead, serve different versions of pages to your users based on their device's screen resolution.
#3 - How Do I Optimize My Images And Videos?
The images and videos you use has a huge impact on how your visitors feel about your brand and the products you're selling, and Google will use this information to determine how trustworthy your store and brand is.
It's also worth noting that high quality images and videos tend to get shared more. Search engine algorithms will utilize "social signals" to help them figure out how well visitors are receiving your content.
Optimizing your images and videos not only helps you rank higher in the search results but also gives you higher conversion rates, so it's worth devoting time or a portion of your budget to improving them.
To optimize your images for the search results you will want to include keywords in your image or video file name, the alt text you use to describe the image or video, as well as the caption and text near the image or video.
For more in-depth image and product optimization details, make sure you enter your email below to receive our comprehensive eCommerce SEO guide.
If you're already optimizing your site to rank higher in major search engines you would be making a huge mistake to not focus on your store's internal search, too.
Using simple product tags isn't enough when you're trying to optimize your store's site search for visitors to find the products they're looking for.
When those visitors type in misspelled keywords, synonyms, or spacing errors on major search engines, for instance, the search engines will still return the results they were looking for.
Track the searches your visitors are performing and how they find your site.
Actively target the most popular searches your visitors are performing.
Use tools like Crazy Egg to track clicks and user behavior.
Turn your search results pages into landing pages to showcase products.
Use your internal search tracking to identify usability errors and find new keywords to target in the major search engines.
Your own internal site search can be a beneficial tool in your marketing arsenal, if you use it properly and compare your own data to the data you're receiving from major search engines.
The content on your site -- your products and product category pages -- need to be organized by relevancy.
Proper internal link architecture goes a long way toward helping the search engines figure out how to "section" your site and can improve your rankings without links from external sites.
When you're thinking about how to organize your site's categories, think about how your visitor would react when they land on your store, for a second.
If they land on a page while they're looking for an Apple iPhone, is it going to make more sense to show them products related to Google's Nexus device, or accessories related to the iPhone they were looking for?
You're also going to want to make sure that only your best-selling, most popular products are featured in the most prominent spots on your site. Don't waste space by featuring products that don't sell well.
Web design doesn't just encompass what your store looks like. While a good designer is going to ensure that your design is appealing and easy to navigate, your design needs to include key elements that will help your store rank higher in the search results.
When you're working with a designer or developer, you're going to want to make sure they're including the key features that the search engines are looking for.
You can get the latest best practices by entering your email below and downloading our comprehensive guide to ranking higher in the search results and double check to make sure your designer is making your SEO job easier.
UGC, or user generated content, is a great way to work new keywords into your page and get critical feedback from your customers -- both good and bad -- so you can improve your business.
Allowing, and even encouraging, users to give you feedback helps increase your conversion rates and gives the search engine algorithms the "freshness" signals they're looking for.
You can build a community of users on social media, connecting your customers together.
You can use Schema.org markup to help your store separate itself in the search results and increase your clickthrough rates from the SERPs.
You can integrate social media onto your product pages so customers can easily find you and you can use the likes and shares as social proof to future customers.
New age search optimization requires you to think more about how your visitors are going to find you and interact with your store than it does the technology behind what's actually driving your store.
Your category pages are going to be some of the most powerful, most visited pages on your site, outside of your actual homepage. That means you need to treat them differently than product pages.
Treat each of your category pages as individual home pages, and funnel visitors (and link juice) into your individual product pages.
Include relevant content on your category pages to help pad the word count, include relevant keywords, help your visitors navigate your site, and give the search engines the content they need.
Build links to your product pages to help flow link equity to your individual product pages.
Share your category pages on social media to help drive visitors directly to them.
Design your category pages to help your visitors find what they're looking for, quickly and easily.
Use friendly URLs and a linking structure that is not only easy to remember and easy to link to, but helps give search engine algorithms the data they're looking for.
If you sell more than a few different products, you're going to have times when duplicate content could become an issue because some products are so similar with the only differences being their size or color, for instance.
Rather than create individual pages for each of these variations (which can be a technical nightmare in itself), you're going to want to use dropdown boxes and radio boxes to manage the options for each of the products being sold.
Doing this will help eliminate any problems associated with duplicate content, reduce the amount of pages you have in your store, and make it easier for your visitors to find what they're looking for.
In general, duplicate content penalties refer to duplicated pages and content on your own store.
However, if you are reusing product descriptions from your manufacturers, you could find yourself being outranked by a store with more authority that published the same content before you.
If you absolutely must use default product manufacturer's descriptions (if you run a large store, for instance), you're going to want to use UGC to help offset the amount of duplicate content you have on your site.
You can add additional content to your product pages and add psychology driven copywriting to help entice visitors to purchase or click through to your store from the SERPs.
Countless eCommerce stores are facing this issue because it's so hard to generate content for products, especially when you have hundreds or thousands of them in your store.
If you take the extra time to build out your product and category pages with additional content, though, you're going to set yourself apart from the competition and give yourself the advantage in the search results.
Add additional content and copywriting to your most popular products, and then work backwards into your lesser selling products and pages.
Add content to your product category pages so they have the highest chance of showing up in the search results.
Enable and encourage your visitors to leave user generated content on your product pages to help them update automatically and give search engines fresh content to rank you with.
Constantly moving and deleting pages can wreak havoc on your search engine rankings, and if you do it long enough you could find it difficult to rank for any keywords you're targeting.
Use 301 redirects to remove expired product URLs by redirecting the older page to the newer page, or redirecting traffic onto the parent category page.
Permanently delete the expired pages, content, and URLs and give the search engines a 410 status code to let them know that the page has been permanently removed.
If you are selling generic products, make every attempt to reuse the URLs that you already have ranking by updating the product pages with your new products.
If you expect to have the same products in stock later in the year or during a different season, leave these pages intact and mark them out-of-stock.
Hopefully, by now, you have a better understanding of what you need to be doing to not only gain search rankings but maintain them as your store grows and changes.
Automating your sales process and increasing your revenue is easy when you start ranking higher in the search results, but it's not the only thing you can automate.
Your customer service has a huge impact on your conversion rates, and being available for your customers to ask questions without waiting around for a response is one of the easiest ways to grow your store's revenue.
With Live Chat Ninjas, you'll have a customer support team at the ready, 24 hours per day, 6 days per week, answering questions that your customers have within minutes, instead of hours or even days.
The Live Chat Ninjas add another layer of human-based automation into your sales process, help increase your revenue, keep your customers happy, and will prevent them from hitting "back" and bouncing back to the search results -- which could have negative impacts on your overall search traffic in the future.


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Eric McNamar and Katie Strawbridge Join Lewis Wagner
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Eric C. McNamar and Katherine S. Strawbridge Join Lewis Wagner
Lewis Wagner is pleased to announce that attorneys Eric McNamar and Katherine Strawbridge have joined the firm.
Eric C. McNamar is an attorney in Lewis Wagner's Litigation Group where he spends the majority of his time handling catastrophic and complex litigation, insurance coverage disputes and general litigation matters involving transportation, construction and premise liability.
Prior to joining Lewis Wagner, Eric represented corporate and individual clients in civil litigation matters involving breach of contract claims, shareholder disputes, real estate disputes, aviation matters, property and casualty litigation and general tort litigation. He provided advice and counsel to a variety of clients including individuals, airlines, trucking and logistics companies, and construction firms and related contractors. Eric also was a member of the aviation mass disaster litigation team at Condon & Forsyth in New York prior to joining Lewis Wagner. The team represented airline clients in all facets of complex civil litigation arising out of the crash of a commercial flight including wrongful death and personal injury claims, property damage claims, CERCLA and other environmental claims, and insurance coverage disputes.
Katherine S. Strawbridge is an associate in Lewis Wagner's litigation group where she concentrates her practice in general civil litigation matters including insurance defense and transportation litigation. Katherine earned her J.D. from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law where she was named to the Order of the Barristers and served as a member of the Executive Board for the Honorable Robert H. Staton Moot Court Competition. She was also selected to serve on the Executive Board of the Dean's Tutorial Society. Prior to law school, Katherine attended the Indiana University Kelley School of Business.


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He is the recipient of an NSF Career Award (1998) and the King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Transactions on Robotics Paper Award (2006). He is an IEEE Fellow (2014). Since 2016, Professor Leonard has also worked at Toyota Research Institute, where he is part of a team that is creating the Toyota Guardian automated driving system.
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Jeans have been a tried and tested piece of fashion that has withstood the test of time. Jeans are popular as they go with everything, making it the perfect staple for your daily fashion choice. With that, everyone is always on the hunt for the perfect jeans. However, jeans-hunting can be a nightmare. With every pair, you find there is a problem. When the waist is just right, the length is wrong, and when the length is ideal, your thighs won't fit right. The truth is that most retail stores cannot offer a wide variety of jeans to suit every size and body conformation. That's why the best choice is to get a pair of bespoke denim jeans in Singapore.
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Brian Lopez and Gabriel Sullivan have been at the forefront of the Tucson scene for a number of years - as solo artists, sidemen, producers and members of Howe Gelb's Giant Sand.
Four years ago, inspired by Peruvian Cumbia, Brian and Gabriel dedicated themselves to the exploration of the hard edge, guitar-driven trippy cumbia known as Chicha. After a few years of playing as Chicha Dust - and becoming one of Tucson's most popular band - the group renamed itself XIXA and started writing all new material, mixing their rocking past and their passion for psychedelic cumbia - creating a sort of desert rock with a Latin edge and a strong taste for hallucinogenic experimentation. Barbes Records released their debut album, Bloodlines, back in February and. They have just come back from their first European tour
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