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Datehookup and Ease of Navigation - Free Dating Service Review
Friday, January 18th, 2013
Datehookup.com has been one of the earliest free dating websites started around the same time as plentyoffish.com and jumpdates.com. The website has not changed much in the way of layout and design and has remained pretty much the same since it started all those years ago. This is unusual considering that web sites go through an evolutionary process of updates and redesign to keep abreast of technology etc. However, if you look at craigslist.org, this site has not changed for almost two decades and is still going strong. One of the reasons, why it may have kept the same look and style is that it probably does not feel the necessity to change. If it does the job of bringing singles together, why change?
Datehookup and Ease of Navigation - Free Dating Sites Review
The first impressions of Datehookup.com is that the site is pretty static and you know where everything is. This is true once you have registered to the site and start searching for other members on the site. The site does not deviate away from its intended core structure or purpose so that users will be able to find everything fairly rapidly and quickly. A good test to see how dating sites perform is to do a search for potential dates and see how long it would take you to message them. I was able to send messages to about five other potential members within a few minutes.
The Low Down on Mingle2.com - Free Dating Platform Review - Part 4
Thursday, January 17th, 2013
One of the features that I liked about mingle2 is their mutual match system. Here, you are able to use the system only if you have a photo of yourself uploaded. Your photo will appear against potential dates next to you and your job is to say based on the picture and their profile description which is well below the page whether you approve Yes, No or Maybe. I found there were a good number of profiles presented here and I could go on for a good few minutes on this. What is interesting though about this section is what is Mingle2 doing with all this information in the background? I think Mingle2 takes this information and sends likely candidates that I have selected as ‘Yes’ and notify them of my interest. This is an excellent way to get users coming back to the site. After all, what can be better than bringing folks back to your site to create all those banner impressions and clicks that keeps your daily bread on the table.
In summary, I joined the mingle2 site and wanted to give you my first take. Hopefully, I will be able to tell you how it fares over the test of time which is the real acid test, right?
Here is my score on the mingle2.com site so far.
Registration - Easy but tricky to avoid the service paying tactics - 3 out of 5
Ease of use - Good once you are in - 4 out of 5
How effective - Need more time to check out the ladies on this site, then I will be able to tell you. However, judging by the local pool of users, it seems to have some potential. Check back for more info. but tell me some of your stories.
The Low Down on Mingle2.com - Free Dating Platform Review - Part 3
Thursday, January 17th, 2013
Finally, I ended up on the actual members page, the holy grail of the online dating stage where everything happens. In my inbox, there were two unread messages and one of them was as expected and was a note offering me to upgrade my account for a price, of course. The other mail, which was a more useful one went into great details about how to get the most out of this site. The premium upgrade option page made it very clear that they were a free dating site and would never charge you without your consent, which was good to know. Their upgrades were for 3, 6 and 12 months and depending on which plan you take you could save a few dollars here and there. On average their monthly comes to about $8.
The problem I feel that upgrade options have in free dating sites is how to convince the users that they need to upgrade since the features to find their mates are already free. So how do you go about convincing users that their hard earned money will pay off in the form of more dates, more contacts and more fun! It’s a tall order but I think its possible, otherwise mingle2.com or pof.com would not be doing it still.
The Low Down on Mingle2.com - Free Dating Platform Review - Part 2
Thursday, January 17th, 2013
I am pretty certain this was the clinger that judging by the previous text messages hooks people into replying and forking out their first $10 for the month. Good luck to you, if you did so and especially trying to remove your subscription for the subsequent months.
I received a welcome message which was earlier in the registration process, so that was reassuring. However, based on what was presented to me, I had to be doubly alert to any other kind of ‘money making’ games that was to follow. To no surprise I was met with the same where on the next screen a page presented me with several screen-shots of apps. This reminded me of the apps that you can pick up on your Roku media streaming player. The page again was confusing and it led me to believe that I needed to install one of these apps in order to proceed. I then submitted to my better judgement and decided to proceed through another link I found on the page and voila I was taken to the next screen! I bypassed an ugly step where I could have installed one of these toolbars and apps on my browser that would have surely compromised my privacy.
The Low Down on Mingle2.com - Free Dating Platform Review
Thursday, January 17th, 2013
Mingle2.com has weathered pretty much the panda storm that Google introduced in the last year and have held onto good seo rankings. This has enabled the site to acquire much needed users to its simple but effective website. However today, free dating sites are now finding it increasingly difficult to generate badly needed operating cash just from ad revenue alone. Free dating sites have now resorted to interesting ways to generate cash and Mingle2 utilizes some of these interesting methods.
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