Article Subject: Why dating reviews don’t show their date of posting? - Part 3

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Many bloggers in the dating world decide to adopt the policy of omitting the dates on their post but this is not without peril. As explained previously these myths are promoted by bloggers to keep guessing both the user and the search engines from knowing its date of origin and these can have serious consequences.

The first myth of keeping the user on your post so as not to detract them from not going ahead and reading the post due to its age. Let’s assume that you have a blog that has been running for a number of years now and you have a collection of quality dating articles that you spent tirelessly over the years and posting them to your site. You may think that omitting the date information will make readers keep ‘current’ with the information, but nothing can be further from the truth.

Let’s assume that the reader pulls up a blog that appears to be current ie. no date but in actual fact is three years old and the reader begins to read it. He is over time going to think that some of the material written about eharmony no longer applies because even though the date is not stipulated on the post, the content is clearly out of date. What happens?

Your user loses ‘credibility’ to the authenticity of your posts regardless of how recent some of your posts are and would not consider you as authoritarian in your field of subject and will most likely leave and look elsewhere.

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Article Subject: Why dating reviews don’t show their date of posting? - Part 2

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Previously, we discussed how many dating website blogs deliberately do not display their dates on the post or the url to make their post and article almost ‘timeless’. There are various reasons for doing this and the list shows some (but not a complete list) of why.

Having no date implies that if the article or post is read in the future say one or two years from now, any new readers to the post will assume that the post is current and will continue to read the post.

Having no date means that Google or other search engines will not be able to tell when the post was written and therefore put up a higher ranking in its index along with other current posts.

I will try to explain why following these myths are not only bad for the Google search engine, but also for the readers reading the post.

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Article Subject: Why dating reviews don’t show their date of posting?

Dr. Dato’s Brief:

It’s a sad fact, but many of the sites especially the blog sites that I visit to do further reading and research have their date of originality missing ie. the date when the post was made.

I don’t know about you, but I was taught from a young age at school that the first thing we do on our writing page is apart from making the title in bold or underline, we always had to have a date next to it. It seems that this situation does not apply to some blogs and I have some of my theories for this.

I have heard from some dating bloggers that omitting dates from the permalink has benefits to search engines and by omitting the date from the post altogether can make your post or article timeless. I will attempt to remove that myth with supporting arguments of why it is actually bad to exclude dates out of your blog posting or article.

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Article Subject: Is match.com really that good?

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I was reviewing more dating review sites and came across yet another one consumersearch.com. One has to be a bit careful as to some of the content written by review sites as they can have a strong affiliation with dating companies because the payout can be quite significant if you can refer them many potential visitors.

On the face of it, the website consumersearch.com is a well known household name and it would appear that their opinions can be taken with some authority without prejudice. Although I have not researched enough of their reviews on other products and services, you can normally tell if there are some bias towards a specific site or not by carefully following their wording.

In such a case they have placed three dating sites at the top with Mach.com coming out clearly as the winner. This is not surprising at all since Match has won numerous accolades in the dating industry and its presence is very strong and of course very much influential. Their conclusions are based on three other sites that offering their opinions on the top dating sites. These include the sites DatingSitesReviews.com, Dating Conference 2010 and realsimple.com.

There are mixed reviews by the last two reviewers and DatingSitesReviews.com appear to have the most positive.

Other resources:

• DatingSitesReviews.com
• DatingSite.org
• Using search engines to locate good dating sites

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Article Subject: Datingsite.org - first look at a dating review site

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This dating website comes up near the top when you type into Google ‘dating review sites’. We have already provided a summary review of another dating site called DatingSitesReviews.com.

By the way, if you wanted to type the address directly make sure to include the ’s’ after DatingSite because I had accidently typed DatingSiteReviews.com which is also a valid name but the owners had pluralised both Site and Review which wasn’t really necessary.

Anyways, the DatingSite.org when you first venture to it’s home page shows all the main paid dating sites reviewed one after another and they include sites such as eharmony, match, chemistry etc. In all, they have 25 of these sites listed with a brief description of each alongside it. However, the ‘good bits’ are only found as you scroll down to the bottom and it’s almost hidden from view and you could miss it if you thought this was just another typical site promoting affiliate links.

The information they have below the list include;

• Introducing Your Partner to Your Parents From a Dating Sites
• Having Patience in a Dating Sites Relationship
• Is it Too Soon to go on Dating Sites?

and a few more….

The one I found most interesting was ‘Dating With Children Blogs Top 100′ which lists an extensive collection of links primarily targeted for single moms.

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