Up to now I have visited and reviewed plenty of 100% free dating sites as well as paid dating site but none of them seems to offer the user experience I am looking for. Badoo.com appear to be a snazzy site that may do well in that department but only time will tell. The real essence of any dating site is to find your perfect match in the quickest and surest way possible!

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Login & Customizing Profiles
The user can login by email address and password for new registrations, however user logged in through their facebook account can login using their email/password of that account.

As far as customizing the profile is concerned, the user can change the notification setting, change password and email address. The privacy setting is a good feature of this site where the user can create a rule as to who can contact you. The user can create rules like who can see your profile, who can contact you, choose which shown 3rd party website can contact you,  or locate you via email address. Even the photos are secured for tag and comments.

Photo Profile Section
The user can add up to 100 photos and videos on the badoo website and categorize them into various albums. Uploading of the photo can be done from your computer and from websites internal camera (which can take some time to get activated), or even from other site like orkut, facebook and photobucket.

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I noticed a very interesting and somewhat of a strange behavior on the site and that is if I click on a searched profile it does not show me the details of the profile and only shows the name and If I wanted to see their photo I would need to obtain permission from the user.

Messaging

Messaging feature of this site is good yet not complete as chat, adding favorite, blocking, report abuse is there but sending a message when the person is off line is missing. Sending gifts is not free and you need to pay and buy credit points that can cost you from $10 to $40.

Other Features

The other features of the website includes a blog and there doesn’t appear to be any other prominent features that makes the site more interactive.

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Badoo is operational in 180 countries with 25 different languages but it’s not well known here in the USA.

Member Base

The  site claims to have over 104 million member base from all over the world. Most of the users are in the age group from 20’s to 50’s. Since this site is free, it looks like that it caters well to the fun going users rather than say for serious online daters.

Longetivity

Well this is a tricky one to answer for this site as daters seems to be there for fun and not for serious dating. I would revisit this section again to conclusively say whether the site caters to the serious daters out there.

Score

Ranking Statistics

Baboo has started working in 2006 and since then it never looked back and gaining in number. Stats show that website got more that one million unique visitors in

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The traffic ranking in 2010 shows a rise of 5.73 % rise from 2009 but there is a 4% drop in existing users. The Badoo website holds a respectable position in the Google ranking of 544.

Conclusion

The eye catching look and feel of this site is what comes across as very appealing with minimum use of color. The Badoo registration happens to be the best so far in this series of reviews of all dating sites. Primarily because of this reason that the site has garnered such a big following.

Customization has been given much thought and the site offers good user and privacy features.

Photo uploading and creation of the album are exceptionally well done and a pleasure to use. Searching for profiles is unfussy.

Messaging is free but yet seems to be incomplete as some of the mail features are missing.

If you want to send gifts you need to buy credit points that will cost you anywhere in the region of $10 to $40.

Member base of the site is huge and spans the globe as confirmed by the Google ranking of 544.

This site is a must for all you young people out there.

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