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Photo Profile Section

The site allows you to upload photos from your computer and I have not seen any rules and regulations regarding photo upload but after you upload a photo, it will be sent for approval. The time required for approval has not been mentioned here.

You can upload your primary photo and more photos as your picture album and the site does not even specify how many photos can be uploaded.

You can replace your uploaded photo and when you send a replacement photo, your previous photo will remain visible until your replacement has been approved.

If your photo does meet approval, you will get a mail containing all the rules for photo upload.

They are simple rules and similar to all the other dating sites.

The photo that you submit should not be copyrighted images, dead animals, contact information, or weapons that are displayed on your person.

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Your primary photo should be a recent portrait of your face that clearly shows your facial features
Your album photos should be a picture that will give others an indication of your;

• - interests or hobbies
• - sports you enjoy
• - places you find interesting
• - pets
• - etc

photos should not contain;

• - Nudity or anything that is too explicit or suggestive.
• - Photos which are too small or too blurry.
• - Cartoons or illustrations
• - Photos displaying dead animals with the exception of fish
• - Weapons those are touching your person
• - Contact information such as
• - email addresses,
• - website URLs,
• - street addresses
• - vehicle identification plates.

Browse & Search Feature

The site is a paid dating site, so there are some limitations for browsing some of the few features on this site.

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Quick Search: Here you have to give yours and your partner’s gender, his/her age range, location within area, country, city and state and you can add or change your criteria or search for different locations.

More Search Options: They are mutual matches, reverse matches and online now.

In mutual matches you will find members that you are searching for.

Reverse match is the section where you will find members who are searching for you and the site also displays some new matches that match you.

Username Search: Here you can search your partner by their username.

You can save all your searches and view them whenever needed.

Messaging

Messaging feature is designed nicely but you will find many things missing that are becoming increasingly common to dating sites of today such as sending of virtual gifts, kisses, IM etc.

The site offers you to send mail only after subscription and free users only have the facility of sending winks.

You can also chat with the members after you area a subscribed paid member of the site.

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Benefits after Subscription

After subscription you can access and use features like having

• Contact with other members,
• Send and receive emails,
• Respond to email messages,
• Remove members from view,
• See who has viewed you and
• With gold package let any member contact.

Member Base

This is an Australian dating site but you will find members from around the world due to match.com extended worldwide coverage.

Most of the members happen to be from the US and Australia and members range from an age group of 20’s to 40’s.

Ranking Statistics

The site has very good number of visitors and they are constantly increasing in user visits.

The site has more than 7.5 million visitors in Feb 2010 which had increased to more than 10.3 million in Feb. 2011.

The site has got nearly 12 million visitors in July of 2010 and the site has tremendously good ranking in the dating industry.

It has been ranked 59 by Google web rank and presumably the reason why match.com clearly made a healthy profit for its sister company IAC.

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How Much It Costs

The cost for subscription is very high on this site as compared to the other paid dating sites and this maybe due to match.com reputable brand in the dating market industry.

You can purchase the following;

1 Month: Full price 1 month subscription is available at AUD $39.95 per month.

3 Month: Standard 3 month subscription can be purchased at AUD $26.65 in which you can save over 30%.

6 Month: Standard 6 month membership which includes match.com guarantee is available at only AUD $20.83. Here you can save over 40%.

Gold Package: Best value is the Gold package for 6 months which includes match.com guarantee and claims to increase your chances of meeting someone special and is available at only AUD $24.99 saving you 50%.

Other features

Daily 5: The site has a very new and exciting feature where the site will send you up to 5 personalized matches each day and notify you when another member is interested in getting to know you.

My Personality Test: You have to perform a test that is the same as we have seen in chemistry.com. The test is designed by Dr. Helen Fischer and here you have go through a test of your personality.

My connections: this is the section where you can see all your mails, winks and favorite matches in one place and this feature needs also a subscription to access. You can also take a look at blocked profiles and profiles removed by you.

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