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Key Points to Consider for Online Dating Sites in 2013
Tuesday, January 1st, 2013
Now that 2013 is upon us, many of us are making New Years resolutions and looking on optimistically ahead. Finance is an important factor for many people and they will be eager to get the most from their money. This will be critical to many online businesses where their survival depends on the revenue and traffic from its users. Just because you have a mighty online presence won’t guarantee you continued success into the future. Look at the turbulent times of Zynga where it started with a formidable position in the online gaming world and is now holding on to it’s dear life.
Many of the online dating sites have adopted the incremental changes and improvements from year to year and this seemed to have worked. However, the popularity of smartphones has introduced a slow shifting traffic of internet users to these devices. This trend will continue to increase into 2013 and we may see a big spike in internet traffic for those smaller devices. Online dating sites will need to pay more attention to this traffic and tailor their websites to this audience. Apps will be important but optimized mobile-friendly sites will be critical for these users to have a good experience where they are likely to come back the second time. This means an even ‘smaller attention span’ where online dating sites engages the user to achieve a few specific goals such as a sign-up.
The continued popularity of the tablet will require online sites to optimize for these devices too. The use of fingers as opposed to the mouse implies more ‘sweeping’ actions for navigating around the site as opposed to clicks. No doubt we will see a bunch of companies who will be offering tools to the webmaster to support this kind of functionality on their site.
Payment gateway is an important and essential tool necessary for many of the online dating sites. Many online purchases are shifting towards the newer mobile devices and webmasters need to be aware of this and support seamless payment systems for their users. Many companies are jumping towards one-click payment systems but the companies that will really shine in 2013 are the ones who already have a huge base of users such as Paypal. Google Wallet is expected to introduce many new features to make online payments a breeze but they need to convince users to use their system.
Along with a winning user-interface of the online dating site that will support all these multiple devices and easy to use payment option they will also need to improve the infrastructure of their back-end systems. New features and ease of use can also introduce increased complexity to the infrastructure of the systems supporting it. The solution of cloud can ease some of this overhead of management and maintenance but can bring its unique sets of problems. For example, the recent outage of the Netflix streaming services in Christmas of 2012 provided by the Amazon Cloud Services.
Important and critical decisions need to made for owners of online dating sites in 2013. The changing dynamic world of the internet devices along with users shifting behavior on how they interact with online services and websites will be key points to be considered.
Tags: dating trends on 2013, mobile dating site, online dating
Rise, Fall and Trends of Dating Sites in 2012
Tuesday, January 1st, 2013
Year 2012 has gone and the world is in 2013, the world of online dating has seen so many ups and down last year. Sites that has climbed the world of online dating by making fast progress in early months of 2012 was not in the list or we can say that out of Google ranking by Dec 2012.
Sites like Sixsingles.com and datingfriend.net and was on the top of Google searches have vanished when Google refined their ranking algorithm for artificial SEO and they don’t even appear in the top 100.
On the flip side India has come to age as the younger generation wanting to get into the online dating scene like twomangoes.com, Date IITians and stepout.com which are getting very popular in the Indian subcontinent.
However, in the midst of Google slashing the rankings for many dating sites, some sites enjoyed tremendous growth such as POF.com, Datehookup, okcupid, mingle2 and Jumpdates. It seems that whatever these sites were doing in 2012 was looking very good in the eyes of Google and as such these sites benefited.
The mobile dating app trend that started in year 2011 has peaked to new heights in 2012 and all the major players launched frequent updates of their app to increase user experience. Year 2013 is the year when we will see more competition in this area, don’t out on the article What’s in Store for Free Dating Sites in 2013.
Tags: dating sites, dating trends, jumpdates, mobile dating
Board Games to keep you entertained this New Years Holidays
Tuesday, January 1st, 2013
Many folks including singles are looking for ways to keep entertained throughout this holiday. Of course there will be plenty of friends and family members to keep you socially active but what about doing something different this time. Anything that brings family members together and engaged in light-hearted entertainment is always a good thing. Board games are the perfect way to go.
People have been playing board games for thousands of years and one of the oldest board game Backgammon is still enjoyed today. This game involves two players who throw two dice to move their pieces to the other side of the board. Pieces can be removed from the board if another player lands on an area that is occupied by only one piece by the opponent. The strategy of capturing and keeping safe your pieces makes for a game that can be both strategic and with some luck.
Cluedo is another fun game for up to six players. The game involves trying to use the power of deduction to determine the murderer, murder weapon and the location of the murder. These cards are picked in random at the beginning of the game and players throw two dice to move around the board. They have the ability to call a person, weapon into the room that they currently landed and request members of the player to their left if they have any of these pieces. Thus by the power of elimination, one can determine which cards have been left out of the game ie. the cards inside the murder envelope.
Another fun game that has gone through many mutations in its history is Monopoly. However, the original classic Monopoly which had it’s origin back in 1923 is still enjoyed by many. The game revolves around a board that contains famous roads, stations and other chance squares where players land and with the money available to them they can purchase any property. The board consists of famous landmark streets such as Regents Street of London. If another player lands on a purchased property then they are forced to pay rent. The object of the game is to become a property tycoon where you control many properties with houses and hotels and force other players to pay exorbitant rent and thus make them bankrupt.
Board games are a great and fun way for a family or a group of friends to get together and have some fun during these winter holidays. Keep the holiday blues away by bringing out one of these old board games and inviting a friend or family over for some fun!
Tags: monopoly, singles board game
