Mortgage Lowdown Blog is looking for reviews, so I’m up for the job! I’d like to offer my own views of a blog that offers mortgage news as well as updates and insights into recent mortgage news. I’ll write this review with two aims: to provide some ideas on the blog for Sagar Satapathy who is the owner, and to provide some ideas on how to improve the blog.

The Blog
The blog offers information about mortgages with an update of the news about mortgages. The postings are limited to a handful each month in recent months. Articles deal with a variety of mortgage related topics, including laws, fraud, rates, tips, and the sub-prime meltdown.

Strengths
* the articles, in recent months, are particularly well written especially 43 Tips. The author has clearly taken a lot of time to craft the best posts, and it shows.
* the volume of postings helps readers to keep uptodate easily, as there are about 2-3 postings a month.
* the PR ranking is already a five, and shows a careful focus on quality of linking as well as articles.

Challenges
* for a website like this, the lack of volume of postings may not encourage people to check back very often. Currently the posting rate is about 2-3 per month. Granted, the blog owner may not wish to have even a daily blog, but more frequently would help.
* there aren’t any obvious ways for the blog owner to monetize his site, though with a PR5 and an improving Alexa ratio, that wouldn’t be difficult. How about TextLinkAds? or Adsense? Neither of these require much work, but would reap benefits. PR5 would be a good way to generate revenue.
* given the focus of the blog, I wonder if a more regional focus would help or not, as it currently covers many major mortgage markets, including the US, UK, Spain, etc.

Overall, the author has created a quality niche blog with good PR ranking. Increasing the postings, driving more traffic and creating some initial revenue would, in this blogger’s opinion, be the right thing to do.

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The Unofficial Jim Cramer Recap is a simple concept, take the popular TV show host, and provide a mini capsule of the salient points and recommendations of the show. Cramer is indeed a well-known trader with a public notoriety and track record. So his recommendations, suggestions and advice can’t be ignored. However, I’m not really that much of a fan of Jim Cramer’s Mad Money: too much shouting and screaming for my own taste. Also, the show airs at odd times in this part of the world, so I can only rarely see it as it’s often on very early am or not at all.

Hence, value of this website to me is quite high! I can get the important stuff without having to see the actual show. For those of you who do see the show, you don’t have to have a pen handy when you watch. Just surf on over here and browse.

Positive Points
For those of you who do admire his wit and insight, The Jim Cramer Recap is a valuable resource and brief summary of the main points of the show, including his picks and pans.

The website also has other information about him: links to Articles, Biography, Essays by Jim Cramer, Lightning Round Archives, and Stocks For Beginners.

So overall, you can find out what is the essential information quickly and efficiently. And that is Jim Cramer’s Recap Website’s USP (unique selling point).

Suggestions
Unfortunately, that is part of the problem with the Jim Cramer Report, there really isn’t that much more on the website. Largely, this is the fault of Jim Cramer for not giving much detailed analysis of a company in his Mad Money Recap. So I have three suggestions:

1. To spin more from less
I would recommend the website beginning to offer analysis of ‘why’ Jim Cramer’s stocks are recommended, analyze those choices to help its readers adopt a more critical view of Cramer’s buys and sells, and offer a historical perspective on which choices ranked and which tanked. I don’t think comments like “I still regard them as Communists” are particularly specific or erudite (but then those are Cramer’s comments, not the website’s!)

2. Keep the content fresher!
The webmaster has included more detailed information on the background of Jim Cramer, his writings, articles about him, and whatnot, but some of the links date back more than a year. It’d be nice to have more recent stuff, too.

3. Broaden the traders!
Overall, the concept of this website is quite simple, but it is dependent on the fate of its star. Should Jim Cramer disappear, so will this website, I fear! Unless it builds up its repertoire to include Recaps of other traders, some forums for discussion, and more high value content to keep people clicking through the pages, and checking out the Google Ads.

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