Top Online Dating Services

March 18, 2006 | Author: Cindy | Filed under: Online Dating

Love-smart Rates the Top Online Dating Services

When looking for love online these days, the World Wide Web offers a complete range of dating services for nearly every personality, religion or ethnic group. Here at Love-smart.com we’ve decided to make things a little bit easier for you by rating some of the most popular online dating services. Here are the results of our research:

eharmony.com
· Founded by Dr. Neil Clark Warren who researched online dating and devised an in depth questionnaire, with a scientifically complex personality profiling system that matches couples by personality. This includes 29 dimensions that determine long-term success in a relationship.
· One of the most popular and successful online dating sites.

· The fastest growing dating website.
· The eharmony personal profile gives you instant feedback on how you relate to others as well as analyzes your personality type.
· This site takes patience as the questionnaire can take over an hour to complete, but is worth it!
· This site is somewhat more expensive than some of the others, but has specials. It is for those who are serious about looking for love and marriage.

Match.com
· One of the most popular dating sites. It has also been around the longest.
· This site claims to have more profiles than any other dating site (now currently approximately 8 million worldwide).
· Offers dating events across the country so you can meet potential dates in the flesh.
· Also offers an advanced match making, video profiles, sound clips, instant messaging and a unique phone system that allows you to have a phone conversation with other singles without revealing your actual phone number.
· One of the few that offers a free 7-day trial membership.
· Offers a free basic membership, which allows you to post a profile and search for matches.
· A full membership costs: $24.95 per month.
· Has a great Instant Messaging system, which allows you to talk to live hot dates!
· Offers a specialized physical attraction test, which improves your matches.
· Takes only 20 minutes to create your profile.
· Serves countries worldwide.

Matchmaker.com
· Offers 1000’s of dating profiles from people around the world.
· The site was recently re-designed. After their re-launch they are offering a special promotion, which allows you to sign up to be a full member for only $9.95 a month. This makes it the most affordable online dating service.
· A pioneer of the Internet dating websites.
· Offers a free basic membership that allows you to post a profile and search for matches.
· Allows you to make and attach notes to profiles you like.
· Has a great advanced search with over 100 search options.
· Has great special interest groups (the military, big and beautiful & nudists).
· Takes 25 minutes to create your profile.
· Serves countries worldwide.

Friendfinder.com
· One of the newer, more alternative dating websites.
· Offers a great friend meeting connection system.
· Not just a regular dating website, this one allows you to network with your friends.
· You can also use this network to let your friends look at potential dates to check them out for you.
· This site gives you a great and honest view of its members.
· Claims to have over 10 million members.
· Offers free community chat rooms to talk to potential dates.
· Offers a great Who’s Online feature so you can make matches quicker.
· Takes 25 minutes to create your profile.
· Offers worldwide connections.

Lavalife.com
· Claims to have over 8 million members.
· Offers links to International sites.
· This is a newer site that offers flexibility to find matches on your own terms by offering ways to find matches in 3 different communities: Dating, Relationships and Intimate Encounters.
· Offers custom search tools to help you find the kind of person you have in mind (for example: whether they live near you or into the same things as you are).
· Offers email or instant messaging as well as instant messaging with a video.
· Site allows you to send your matches free Lavalife ‘smiles’.
· No subscriptions at this site, works with credits that let you pay as you go so that you can start connecting with whoever you like, whenever you want.
· Unlike other sites, it is always free to reply to an email or an instant message.
· This site is very good about offering privacy and anonymity.
· Offers ability to create and update profile whenever you want.
· Offers members a slide show to see if someone catches your eye.
· Site allows you to create a ‘hot list’ of people you’d like to get to know.
· Takes 25 minutes to create a profile.

AmericanSingles.com
·A very simple, yet effective dating site mainly for those who reside in the United States of America.
· 1000’s of profiles available.
· One of the original online dating sites with a base of over 5 million profiles.
· Offers a great ratio of men to women (a 60/40 split).
· Very simple and easy to use. Has very useful search and instant messaging capabilities.
· Offers a free basic membership.
· Offers a toll free phone number with customer care consultants to assist you with your matches.
· Site allows you to make free local searches based upon your area code.
· Site offers some very unique profile questions.
· It is a good over all dating site.
· Takes 25 minutes to create a profile.

Have you Had any luck with Online Dating Websites? Share your Experience with us in the Comment Box Below.

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4 Responses to “Top Online Dating Services”

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September 5th, 2006 at 3:34 am
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other and saying she love me truthly and trust me, she
also said that her trust shouldn’t go in vain. she love
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