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How to choose a good dating website ?

1] The most important part about choosing a good dating website is that it has a large number of members. And when I say large I mean a reasonable number and good quality profiles. So your chances of picking up a successful date are increased. If the dating site has no members no matter how good the dating site is you will not find a date.
But selecting a dating website with a lot of members is quiet difficult indeed as all of them claim to have thousands of members online and millions of registered members. In almost 80% of the case these figures are not true.The best way to find out how busy a dating site or any website really is or to get a rough idea of how many members the dating site has you need to know what its alexa ranking is.

What is alexa ranking
You can download it as a tool bar by visiting this link http://download.alexa.com/index.cgi . This will sit in your tool bar and every site you visit it will give you a number.As a rule of thumb any dating site which has a alexa ranking greater than 50,000 [fifty thousand] is not worth wasting your time on as the maximum number of members they are likely to have is going to be less than 5000 or they have been inactive or not advertsing their dating site for a very long time. Now visit different sites you normally visit and see their alexa rank and overtime you will get an idea of how busy a site really is. Remember the lower the number the busier the site, so sites like GOOGLE, MSN, or bbc.com would be in the top 10 .


2]The next question is whether to go for a paying dating site or a free dating site ?
There are now good 100% free sites so why pay when you can date for free.
Advantages of free dating sites are
You donot have to pay a big plus I guess
You can check out the website and you can always leave if you donot like it
You can register on multiple free sites
You can have multiple profiles

Disadvantages
None

3] Select a dating site with a strong antiscam policy?
There are a lot of scammers and cheats out there so select a dating site with a strong antiscam policy. Also you will find paying dating sites have it in their interest to register scammers as they sign up as attractive models and email almost everybody in the dating site. And you look at this very attractive person interested in you and are tempted to sign up straight away not knowing they are a scammer. this is profitable to the paying dating site. And as long as they get their money they donot really care much.
Also read this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4451606.stm as this is a competitive industry and with free dating sites biting into the revenues of big dating sites they are getting pretty desparate. Yahoo and match are both being sued for posting fictitious profiles.

4] Matching making dating sites do they really work ?
All these so calle matching making dating sites telling you they will match you up and find your perfect partner with there match makign software well There is no scientific evidence to prove this matchmaking software works. At the moment they are as good as tossing a coin and calling heads or tails. 50 : 50 So you might as well toss the coin yourself and call heads or tails. The way we select our partners is complex and complicated and matching making questionairres are statistically just as good as tossing a coin. So donot waste you time feeling in long questionnaires but if you like them go ahead.

5] Choose dating sites with good search facilities like advanced search .
Almost all dating sites have that facility nowadays.

6] Go for dating sites which allow you to view more than 10 profiles per page .
If say a dating site allowed you to view 30 profiles per page you could get through profiles quickly. Most dating sites donot allow this as you will quickly find out how few profiles they have.

7] Choose dating sites which allow you to view profiles as a photo gallery and more than 10 per page
This would all you to go through thousands of profiles in a very short time.

8] Choose online dating sites which allow you to find out who has viewed your profile?
A good way to findout if anything is wrong with your profile or what type of activity is there on the dating site.

9] Common sense make dating online a good experience .
If after registering you suddenly recieve a lot of emails telling you how good you are and asking you to pay the joining fee to sign up in order to be able to read the email or reply to them. Than wake up and think again. More likely to be a scam. Quiet a common one run by paying websites and these are quiet big websites as well. They have full time staff doing exactly this. Quiet a lot of money involved and they have all you details and can mass email all members on the site with the profiles of atleast 20 attractive profiles. The result being you think hey this site is great let me pay up and sign up quickly only to find out once you have signed up that the interest suddenly disappears.


I think these are the most important ones. But would welcome your comments below.