Money Saving Expert

MoneySavingExpert is encyclopaedic, sharp and decently organised, offering a wealth of advice, tips, guides and tricks to help you save money across a wide range of areas.

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Content is classified by expenditure category: card loans, shopping, deals and vouchers, utilities and phones, banking and saving, travel and motoring, mortgages and homes, income and family and money news.

Articles are updated weekly, monthly, quarterly or annually, as declared at the start of all articles. There is also a lively Chat Forum which is always a guide to the health of a website and this one clearly hits the spot.

The potential pitfall of a service like this is the overlooking of quality in pursuit of a low price, but this is not really a charge that sticks with MoneySavingExpert. Looking at Savings & Investments, Loans & Banking and Insurance areas, the overall quality of results is well above standard press fare.

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In terms of navigation, the wide ranging content is always going to present organisational problems, but MoneySavingExpert makes a pretty good fist of things. Navigate from the left hand panel to reach the area of interest. Articles are wide-ranging, offering advice on all manner of subjects in a style that is as direct and chatty as it is accurate and practical.

Sign up to a weekly dose of money saving tips. Over 2.5 million people receive the newsletter and along with nearly 9 million visitors to the site a month, MoneySavingExpert refrains from the fashionable adviser-bashing and emphasises the value of independent financial advice where appropriate. Top site!