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This week I’ve come across not one, but a whopping three, excellent articles about various important SEO topics. They’re all certainly worth a few minutes of your time if you have an interest in web development, so with that in mind, I’ll share them here.

First off is a simple list of 5 SEO tips over at Mashable. These are simple and quick-to-implement strategies for small to medium-sized businesses and range from things like making use of WordPress and doing a little research on how to use keywords with it …

With the launch of Google Drive last week, there’s now plenty of very reliable and attractive options for people looking for cloud-based storage to back up their data in an easily accessible manner. Whether you want that extra little bit of insurance against external hard-disk failure (if that’s your back-up method of choice) or simply need to sync files in a way that is accessible from multiple locations and devices, cloud-based storage services are probably an option worth considering.

So, with that in mind, I thought it’d be useful to …

Following on from previous posts in this series (covering some of the problems that consumers currently face when wishing to purchase technology that has been ethically and sustainably produced), this post will develop things further by suggesting one way to influence companies’ business practice all the way through the tech supply chain. This means everyone from the mining companies extracting the rare earth materials that will one day comprise your smartphone’s processor, right through to the guys making all the various components that get bought by Foxconn so that they …

A few weeks ago I wrote a lengthy piece about something which had been bothering me for quite some time – the annoying lack of clear, easily-available information to help consumers buy technology in a more ethical manner (i.e. to choose products which don’t support unethical business practices such as using child labour, forced and unpaid overtime, polluting local environments and so on).

Well, I’ve since decided that this is an issue well worth covering on a regular basis simply because it is only by raising awareness that we create …

Ever since news emerged that the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), a charity which provides young women with pregnancy advice and services – including information and assistance with abortion – had been subject to thousands of hacking attempts from addresses in the USA, there’s been a fair bit of discussion about the US/UK ‘special relationship’ and its attendant extradition treaties.

Most people are becoming increasingly aware of the UK situation with regards to extradition – in that it pretty much appals the majority of the reasonable public, whatever their political …