• Is There Someone You Know Who Has Autism? •
• A Post Today About Help For Diagnosing Autism •

Today’s post may seem a little “off the radar” for my blog, but not really. If you take a close look at the tagline in my header, there are the words “…and Life in General”. So in that spirit, I want to alert my readers to a new set of informational products that you, or someone in your family, or a neighbor, or a fellow church member, or person you work with might find of intrest and great help.

My helpful offering today is to point you towards some brand new, incredibly informative resources about autism symtoms, signs, treatments, and cutting edge medical research that I spent time previewing last night: Autism: Everything Parents And Caregivers Should Know About The Disorder.

You know, my family and I are blessed in that we have never had to deal with a close family member who suffers from any type of mental illness such as autism. But I have a dear friend who has a specialized degree to teach younger children suffering from autism and similar illnesses. Some of the stories she shares with me about trying to deal with and effectively get through to these children, let alone try to teach them, are very touching.

The little I do know is that the causes of autism are not yet known with certainty. Recent research suggests a link between genetic susceptibility and environmental agents. There is evidence that no one factor causes autism and perhaps there exists a synergy among a number of factors.

I’ve also learned that there has been an apparent rise in the occurrence of autism since about 1980, but still, the root cause for childhood autism has not been found. And that boys are affected by autism in greater numbers than girls are. There is speculation that childhhod immunizations could be a cause. However many will argue that.

Anyway … as I said I am certainly no expert but this information was brought to my attention and after I reviewed the eBooks and MP3, I felt it worthy of me passing along to you to investigate.

I truly hope this autism information will be of help to at least one family today.

For all the information, please go to: Diagnosing Autism: Symptoms & Treatments

• Can the Search Engine Spiders Crawl Your Site? •
• Do You Know What Constitutes A Well Designed Website? •

Over 90% of all websites are a complete waste of money.

I read this statement today in an email newsletter I receive from a very successful online marketer and I thought “hey! this is so true”. However, I already knew this … it just kind of hit home (again) to me because this morning I talked to yet ANOTHER struggling newbie website owner who admitted she had what is probably one of the better examples of what a website design should NOT be!  (And guess what? She was right … it was REALLY bad!)

As but one example of “bad” … how about content that was NOT search engine spiderable … the individual who built the site for her saved all the content as images!   Egads … no chance at ranking for any possible keyword phrase, since the spiders do not “read” words that are part of an actual .jpg or .gif image.

(Do wonders never cease?)

My partner Damian and I go through this day in and day out with the clients who come to us for website design and SEO help. Websites that are totally incapable of being effective online marketing machines!

So, if you think a really good looking, graphically heavy website is what you need to make money online … good luck. But, if you are slowly realizing that a website must be very easy to navigate for the visitor; has a clean presentation for the content and images; AND is properly coded so that it can be spidered by the search engine bots without a hitch … then you are correct!

If you are ready to start turning your finances around, and that includes getting your website professionally designed and optimized so that you have the very best chance you can at earning income from your site … then please Contact Us - SEO-Innovation.com for a free no-strings-attached assesment of how we can help you.

It’s the First Day of Autumn - The Autumnal Equinox

The Fall Equinox is the day when night and day are of equal length. This happens when the Sun crosses the equator, which occurs twice each year.

At the autumnal equinox - September 22, 2008; 11:44:18 A.M. EDT -
the Sun appears to cross the celestial equator,
from north to south in the northern hemispehre.