There are plenty of ways to get information online. We’ve got direct contact to other people’s opinion through forums, blogs, twitter, email spam (!). A lot of it is thrust at us because eyeballs still mean money in the online world. So it seems, there is a huge volume of insurance blogs out there which purely exist to take paid for content (for search engine or advertising motives) and do not actually provide anything of use to someone looking for a “proper” insurance blog.
So to help those people out, here’s a list of our top 10 insurance and personal finance blogs (besides our own obviously) which are spam free and regularly updated with useful, as well as tongue in cheek, posts:
- Love Money
- Money Magpie
- Miss Thrifty
- Money Hospital
- Fru Gal (Totally Money)
- Money Central (Times Online)
- Money Blog (The Guardian)
- Fluxposure (Adrian Flux)
- Neville’s Financial Blog
- Riskheads (insurance technology focused blog)
So there you have it, a nice conformist’s list of the top 10 UK insurance and personal finance blogs for your enjoyment.
Capital One
Credit Made Clearer
lovemoney
Relationship with Your Money
CashQuestions
Personal Finance Problem Solver
Life Cover
Insurance Made Easy
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Great list of blogs, I’m totally with you on the list but not so much on the sequence. I think the Money Central should be on #1 then Money Magpie and then Love Money.
Oh, bless you! As a regular Insiders’ View reader, I jumped in my seat just now when I checked in and saw a link to Miss Thrifty staring back at me! Thanks very much.
@Miss Thrifty – no problem – a reward for your consistently thrifty blogging. Haven’t seen you comment before on IV before – no need to be so shy in the future ;o)
Thanks so much for including my blog on your list – you have made my morning! Glad you enjoy reading along
Hi thanks so much for including Moneymagpie in the list. My friend Annie at Cashquestions pointed it out to me. It has made my day!
@Ernest – Ah, but maybe I have commented under a different name…
@Miss Thrifty – I guess is would be hypocritical for myself and George to denounce such behaviour!
@Jasmine, @FruGal – no problem. You’re all consistently good bloggers. I’m sure you get rewarded for what you publish but the content stands up on its own. Keep up the good work.
A great list, I wasn’t aware of most of these especially riskheads.org which looks like a good insurance focused blog.
Thanks.
Thanks for the mention chaps!
Would have spotted this sooner, but we have been busy (and still are!) migrating the blog from Blogger to Wordpress.
Keep up the good work.
David
On behalf of RiskHeads.org I’d like to say a big thank you for our mention in the Top 10 Insurance Blogs. THANKS guys.
Since our recent launch we’ve been pleased by the massive feedback we’ve been getting from readers and to see RiskHeads up here already with the likes of Times Online and The Guardian gives us all a warm fuzzy feeling inside.
Well done Adam (Riskheads.org) I have been enjoying some good old fashioned discussion on there that seems to be sadly lacking elsewhere . Glad to have found my way to Insiders View too.
Would welcome some feedback on my own blog attempts…I try not to be too dull!
David
@David *G* Wilson
What an excellent name!
Dave: Good point well made!
Cheers
DGW
What’s that Rodney?!
Pretty poor list if you ask me!
At least ALL the Search Engine algorithms are working for the term!
Why are all these blog PR3 or less? Although most of them especially MoneyCentral are great blogs. Looks like google is not rewarding insurance blogs fairly. Guess Larry Page’s insurance is in millions
@Insurance Blogger – we would tend not to promote a blog just because it appears highest in Google and sells links in their content to lots of other poor content quality “blogs”. Instead we give credit to those who write content that actually helps consumers. Each of the blogs in that top 10 list will profit from their blog (granted) but they write good content for the person on the street and not for the community of bloggers looking to profit from them.
@Alex – it probably has a lot to do with those blogs not having particular strong SEO skills and/or the fact that they’re competing in an extremely competitive sector. But they all write good, frequent and topical content. Imagine what they could do if they had the SEO skills and the time required to go into the detail as well!!