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NaughtyConnect has recently shown up on the adult dating scene. I noticed that they are ranking extremely high when searching adult dating on Google so I wanted to take a closer look. This is an adult site so expect some graphic pictures and profiles. When I first went to NaughtyConnect, I noticed that the page felt very similar to AdultFriendFinder. Espcecially their slogan at the top that says, “Welcome to the Worlds Largest, Naughtiest. Adult Dating & Sex Personals.” It is a very similar slogan to AFF.

I made a free profile to snoop around a little more. After filling out the profile, the site seemed less and less like AFF. So I’m confident that this isn’t another front like Passion.com for AFF. Your personal profile can be as indepth or simple as you want. Pretty standard fields to fill out. Nothing out of the ordinary. You CANNOT get very far here as a free member. You must pay in order to contact others on this site. You are able to send winks without paying but you are limited to 10 per day so chose wisely who you would like to contact. This adult dating site is very limited to non-paying members. You are able to receive messages from paying members which is limited to 10 in your inbox at any time. If you want more, you’ll have to delete the ones you have to get more. Your free profile is valid for up to one year.

As a paying member you obviously get a lot more features. A lot of these features are free on other adult dating sites. Paying members get the following features that free members do not have access to.

• Messaging Members
• Instant Messaging
• Upload up to 20 pictures
• Private Albums
• Manage buddy/hot list
• Full Signup
• Even Management

There is only one premium membership option and that is the Gold package. The Gold Package costs $29.95/month. You credit card is processed by netcash and will automatically rebill you on the same day of the month until you cancel your membership. Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 39% [?]

OkCupid is a relatively new dating site. It is not an adult site by any means. It also is not your traditional singles community. It feels similar to a Myspace/Friendster with the main focus in online dating and match making. This dating site has many features that are fun to play around with. One being their tests and questions you answer for points. Once you get to 500 points you are able to create your own question and have other members answer it. The point of these questions is to get an idea of who you are and what other members have similar beliefs and characteristics for matching purposes.

The questions serve as a matchmaking system. When answering questions, you select your answer and what you would want in your partner. After you have answered a certain amount of these questions, they start to develop a match profile and can fit you with other singles on the dating site. I answered a few questions and still didn’t get a very good “percentage” complete. For them to have a good understanding of your personality, you would probably have to answer over 100 questions. If you use the personals site often that really wouldn’t be too hard.

OkCupid is completely free and at no point that I noticed are you asked to signup or pay for anything while on their site. The overall profile is pretty in-depth and could take a little while to create. You are allowed to post pictures obviously. They want them to be of your face only which is a little different. After you upload the picture, they ask you to crop the picture so it’s pretty much just your face. They will delete innapproriate pictures so I would make sure and read what is acceptable for your personal ad.

Their traffic rankings are pretty solid. According to Alexa, their Global traffic raking is 3,519. Their US rank is 726 with 56% of their overall traffic coming from the United States! That’s a pretty good rank which means this dating site should have a lot of members searching for singles.

Technorati Tags: OkCupid, web personals, meet singles

Popularity: 3% [?]

I know we have recently taken a look at JustSayHi, but I wanted to take it a little further and see how this free online dating site really works. I created a free male dating profile and started to play around with the site. When creating your free profile, you will have to fill out a couple pages of info but not much at all when compared to some other dating sites. After you get done with your profile, you’ll be ask to join about 6 other advertisements. Just make sure you dont confuse one of the pages with JustSayHi and fill your information in our you’ll find yourself subscribed to something you most likely do not want. Once you have skipped all of those ad pages, you’ll need to verify your email account to activate your profile.

Once you have activated your profile you are free to roam about the site and start meeting singles or whatever you are on the site for. There are basic features on the site. You can invite friends to join by entering your email address and sending them an invite. You can search for people who fit your criteria. You can also do advanced searches for singles as well. JustSayHi will actually find matches that they think are a fit for you so you’ll have a “matches” tab with people you might be interested in.

When search results are displayed, you have several options. You can simply check out their profile, send them an email, or let them know you are interested. All features are free at JustSayHi. I am not sure yet if there are limitations to how many members you can message per day, but so far I have not run into anything like that. I searched and messaged a member and got a REAL response back very quickly. That member was online at the moment, but it is good to see that there are people out there using the site as intended. Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 3% [?]

It’s been a little while since we have taken a look at IwantU. If you are unfamiliar with them, I’ll give a very brief description. IwantU is an online dating site that has been around since 1996. That’s a long time for a dating site! The comparative advantage is their dating community options. You are given 3 choices when signing up. You can join the

• Adult Club
• Dating Club
• Alternative Club.

If you have any web dating experience, then I’m sure you would know the difference between the three. You have clean, dirty( sex dating ), and experimental. The site as a whole, definitely has a lot to offer.

When looking strictly at their traffic, they seem to be dropping slightly when looking at 3 month statistics. According to Alexa, their Global traffic ranking is about 12,000 and their US traffic ranking is almost 7,000. And to take an even closer look at where their traffic comes from, affiliates make up 22% of overall hits. That’s a huge piece. So let’s take a look at why……

Several factors are most likely responsible for such a big piece of their traffic coming from their affiliate dating program. One is that you can run your own “Private Label Dating Site.” What does this mean? It means you can have a exact replica of IwantU with your own domain name basically. This is pretty good if you are not sure if you would like to startup a dating website, or become a regular affiliate. It’s kind of in between the 2 options. Another advantage of their affiliate program is their high payout options. Their options are….

• 70% rev share
• $100 per signup
• $10 per profile
• $1 per click
• 5% webmaster referral

Not too bad as far as dating affiliate payouts are concerned. I haven’t had the opportunity to speak with anyone who is an IwantU affiliate so I cannot say how well it converts. But if it is comparable to other top dating sites, then I would say it would be worth a shot with such high options. Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 1% [?]

Datehookup is starting to get a lot more attention in the online dating world. A lot of the attention could be from the fact that they are almost at the very top of online dating searches from search engines like Google. This dating site boasts that it is 100% free and that is completely correct. They offer many of the normal features that you would expect to find as a premium(paying) member on other dating sites. These features include instant messaging, emailing, posting pictures, dating ideas, and others.

The unique features of Date Hookup definitely has to be the dating ideas and singles forums. Dating ideas are just what it sounds like. You can read helpful posts/articles that can aid you in your single searching experience. Singles forums is a great place where you can read and discuss certain subjects with other singles. Other dating features that are not as unique are your own blog, adding your friends, and customizing your ad. Most of those features are common among almost all dating sites online today.

Their alexa ranking looks pretty bad globally, but is pretty decent when just looking at the US, which makes up about 84% of their traffic. Datehookup’s global Alexa ranking is 35,055 and their US ranking is 3,857. Quite a difference. The second most prominate country on Datehookup is Canada which makes up about 5% of the overall traffic.

Technorati Tags: Datehookup, web dating, online personals, us dating

Popularity: 7% [?]

Mate1 is starting to get a little more attention in the online dating world. They seem to have a steady growth in traffic over the past 3 months or so according to alexa when looking at overall pages viewed. Meaning that there dating members are looking at more singles on the site lately. They have lost overall traffic ranking. The site allows you plenty of free features. One problem is actually getting your messages. I made a profile to test the site out and was impressed by all the members. However, I would message others and never hear back from them. Not just for dating, but for friendship and whatever. It seemed that the other singles were not getting anything from me. So I setup a second profile and tried messaging my other ad, and the message was not going through????

Again, these were free member profiles, but on an online dating website, you should be able to use the features they say you can. If they are not going to let you contact others, they just flat out should not let you have the option. I know this dating website has been around for several years without becoming close to as big as a singlesnet, match, or eharmony. Perhaps they need to work out some of the problems the site is having.

Mate1’s Global ranking on alexa is 3,203. Their US ranking is 1,552. Both are pretty good in comparison to other online dating sites out there.

Popularity: 5% [?]

Adultspace formaly know as Myadultspace has been retaining and attracting adults interested in meeting other adults for quite some time now. They first started a few years back, and hardly had any traffic. Their new adult member numbers are acutally lower over the last quarter than I expected, however, their current adult members are visiting 20% more pages this quarter. That’s a huge increase in pages. That means that current members are contacting each other way more frequently and checking each other out. That is definitely something you would want as an adult looking for other members to communicate with. Now this site is similar to a Myspace, but with a sexual, adult dating mentality. So it definitely does not feel like a traditional personals community. Members make a more in-depth profile. Features include but are not limited to……

Messaging

Friend Lists

Groups

Contests

Picture Rating

Blogs

Polls

Classified Ads

Instant Messaging

Porn Videos

Regular Videos

Party Postings

and more…..

AdultSpace obviously has a ton of features. They really don’t have much of an issue with spamming problems or advertising. They do a little advertising themselves for a cam site, sexsearch, and fling. But other than that, it’s a pretty ad free adult dating community. Much like many other adult dating sites, they have more male members than female. This isn’t to say that there aren’t a large percentage of female members. There traffic based on Alexa today ranks them at 14,746 globally and 3,264 in the US with roughly 69% of their traffic coming from the United States.

Popularity: 10% [?]

AmateurMatch has been in the online adult dating business for quite some time. Since about 1999 to be more specific. They promote themselves as being a free dating site and they pretty much are for the most part. One feature they charge for is the live web cam which is understandable. It is pretty difficult to find a dating site or any site for that matter that offers free live web cam services. Another feature that is blocked off to non-premium members, is the x-rated videos. Again, this is uderstandable because at that point, you are just getting porn, not online dating benefits. They have something for all users which is a little different and that is Sex Games. They are not really for dating purposes, but more for entertainment. Pretty much just some traditional games with a sexual twist. Instant messaging is allowed between free members as well.

Their traffic ranking among other adult dating sites is much better than I thought it would be. On Alexa, they have a global ranking of 1,825 and a very impressive US ranking of 623! This puts them up there with adult dating sites like fling, hornymatches, and others. Again, I was not expecting such strong numbers from Amateur Match. I would have to say, this adult site looks to be worth its members while. Expecially for the non-paying visitors.

Technorati Tags: Adult Dating, Sex Personals

Popularity: 100% [?]

Justsayhi is climbing in the popularity ranks in the world of online dating very fast.  I naturally wanted to see what all the fuss was about so I recently made a personal profile to check out the features and perks for its dating members.  The first thing I noticed, is the massive quantity of ads when creating your profile.  They bombard you with ads when setting your account up very similar to monster.com.  There were about 8 I had to pass on before getting into my personals ad.  I have not found anywhere that asks you to pay to join so I’m pretty sure this dating site is totally free.

This dating site is very direct and easy to use which I like.  They have most of the usual options here.  You must verify your email address before you are able to read messages that other interested singles have sent you.  Other features are advanced searches, mutual matches, justsayhi community access, and instant messaging.  Their dating community consists of walls you can post on that other online daters started.  Some are pretty fun, and others are a little out there.  Just depends on what you like talking about. 

One last thing is pictures for you dating profile.  This site is a “clean” site, so you may want to save the crotch shots for other sites Fling, or AFF.  For the most part the users on there keep it pretty conservative with a few showing some skin.  This website seems to get plenty of traffic so I don’t think finding online singles here will be too difficult.  If I left anything out, please correct me.

Technorati Tags: Dating, Online Personals

Popularity: 1% [?]

Alexa Rankings change quite frequently, especially for online dating sites. There are constantly new sites coming out. Dating sites are spending a lot more money on advertising as well so rankings for some sites have been steadily climbing. For example, Singlesnet was on the ups, then they started advertising all over sites like Myspace. Their ranking is 3 times better than it was less than a year ago. They were the main advertisement on Myspace’s exit page. Other sites that have been stirring up some traffic are Fling and Ashley Madison. Not all are gaining traffic by banner ads. The updated alexa rankings are…………..

Dating

Global US

Match 14 74

AFF 70 42

Eharmony 416 246

Singlesnet 438 113

Fling 494 123

Plentyoffish 780 235

Friendster 824 215

Hornymatches 1,100 171

Justsayhi 1,585 669

Amateurmatch 1,786 634

TRUE 1,967 268

Alt 4,017 464

Passion 11,230 1,953

Social Networking

Global US

Myspace 6 3

Facebook 7 5

Hi5 9 63

Orkut 10 44

Friendster 14 74

Skyrock 22 2,868

Bebo 106 168

Perfspot 147 n/a

There might be a site or two that should have been included, but these lists include pretty much the dating sites and social networking sites that have the most traffic. These rankings change almost by the minute so they are accurate today, and may not be tomorrrow.

Technorati Tags: international dating, web dating

Popularity: 6% [?]