Using search engines to locate good free dating sites - Part 24 - Online Dating Briefs by Dr. Dato
Article Subject: 24. Understanding more about online dating websites - Whois
Dr. Dato’s Brief:
We went through a few ways of evaluating a genuine dating site and not just simply taking it from it’s face value. These included browsing other parts of the site, checking footer links as well as going to Google and typing the domain (site) name.
There is an additional tool at our disposal and this is the whois look up tool, simply type ‘whois’ in the search box and you have a list of sites where you can look up a domain name and see who the site is registered to and other information. This can be a good way to determine the age of the domain, country it has been registered to, company registered under and so forth.
Next we will look at traffic data of websites to determine the traffic levels to the website and hence an idea of the number of visitors to the website.
whois domain information can provide useful information regarding the website
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Using search engines to locate good free dating sites - Part 23 - Online Dating Briefs by Dr. Dato
Article Subject: 23. Understanding more about online dating websites
Dr. Dato’s Brief:
If after having browsed through the site, you are still not certain about the site, the next best thing to learn about its popularity is to go directly to the search engines and type it’s name. For example say you wanted to check out “Jumpdates.com”, you will go to the google search box and type either “jumpdates” or “jumpdates.com”.
The results should tell you whether this site is fairly new or popular, in which case the popularity is measured by the number of search items returned in the Google SERPs page or by scanning through all the returned results or snippets.
The returned lists usually contains some relevant information regarding the site and this could be due to blog postings, reviews, user comments and much more. Be aware that some of the listings can be old, in which case you can gauge the age of the website. Next we will talk about another tool to check more details of the dating website.
search engines can also be useful to measure the popularity of a website
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Review of Paid Dating Site – Shaadi.com
Shaadi
Look and Feel
The look and feel of the website is simple but yet attractive. The background is white with a foreground of black text and shades of red.
At the top you will see names of Indian communities from where you can choose your location.
Below this is a red box which highlights an attractive Indian couple with information on the registration and how it works and premium plans of the site.
There is a quick search box to the right corner of the page.
You can see some success stories also and there are many advertisements on the site which is unusual since this is a paid dating site.
You can follow the site on twitter, facebook and orkut.
The site also highlights their operations around the world including India, Canada, and U.K, USA etc.
Registration Process
The registration process is very easy and quick, you need to provide information such as name, date of birth, religion, mother tongue, country, marital status and height.
You also have to give information about your dieting, smoking, drinking habits including your education, complexion type, state, city and mobile number and annual income is a mandatory field. Next is the photo profile upload.
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Review of Paid Dating Site – Shaadi.com - Part 2
Login & Customizing Profiles
For login to the site you need to provide your email and password. After you login you will see a nicely placed menu at the top of the page with also information on the latest matches on the page.
Users have the ability to edit their profile information.
Photo Profile Section
Photo uploading can be done from your computer but there are certain rules for uploading the photo such as the obvious case of your presence in the photo. No blurred images, copyrighted and celebrity pictures will be entertained.
You can add group or family photograph to your album but profile picture should be yours.
You can mail your photos along with your profile id to the given site address or you may also post your photos to the office address of the website.
Browse & Search Feature
Browsing and searching is an important feature of any website and in Shaadi.com you can browse through using many of the features for free. There are numerous icons like my shaadi, partner search, communicate, membership on the top.
In ‘my Shaadi ’you can edit your account settings, verify contact details, add photo, and see my partner preferences.
You can also view members that are looking for you or look for other members.
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Review of Paid Dating Site – Shaadi.com - Part 3
There is an e-matchmaker where you can see members who are highly compatible with you.
Searching section was a pleasure to use with basic search as the simplest search in which you can search by city, mother tongue, state, religion and age.
Apart from this you can make a smart search which is based on complexion, diet, smoking, drinking, special case, HIV positive, manglik (influence by some bad planet effect) etc. and you can also view the online personals by clicking on ‘Who is online’.
There is an astrology search in which you have to give your date of birth, time, country and city of birth and on the basis of this information, the site will create your horoscope and will search for partners that criteria. It’s hard to quantify the effectiveness of this search unless compared rigorously with the other search options.
Messaging
Messaging is not that great feature of this site and you can send messages and view the phone number of the person.
You can also make a chat with them but for using all these features you need to be a premium member of this site.
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