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It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed a dating site since I haven’t seen very many big, new sites. A new addition to the online dating world has recently come about, and that’s Spark.com. Spark is the combination of Americansingles.com and Date.ca. Spark’s web traffic looks like it just started taking off on December 14th. As usual I went ahead and created a profile and played around a bit. Here is what I found.

Spark.com is definitely based on a matchmaking process. While creating your profile you’re asked to take a personality survey which is beginning to be a requirement for the majority of online dating websites. Spark has a different line of questioning than anything I’ve seen. They ask you to answer the questions as you were when you were a child. For instance, “How did you deal with embarrassing situations?” I’m sure there’s some sort of psychological process behind this method. Anyway, at the end of the survey you get a “Personality Color” which is what will be used to find your matches. Mine was Yellow.

After my profile was made I started looking around at my matches. I had 15 to start. I looked at several and their profiles were relatively short and basic. The site seems easy to navigate and communicate with matches through chat room, email, flirting, and e-cards. However, to really be able to communicate, you’ll need to sign-up for a paid membership. You have several payment options including month-to-month and longer term options. Seeing as this site is relatively new, I’d be reluctant to pre-may for several months without testing is out first. Below are the current payment options.

Something else I’d point out is that there are only roughly 1,200 people online on a Sunday.  I’d expect this to pretty much be peak dating time and that’s a very low number.  With that  being said, lets go ahead and look at Spark.com’s traffic rankings from Alexa.

Unites States makes up for 49.9% of Spark.com’s traffic.

Popularity: 2% [?]

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% [?]