Shaadi.com has been with us for a number of years and has made headline news in the Western world despite it’s Indian origin. The reason for it’s success is that it targets very well people of Indian descent living abroad and the ample number of potential suitors living in India. It has especially made its mark in US and UK, so lets see what it has to offer…

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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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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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The site does not offer any free messaging service and features such as winks, gifts and the like are not available on this site which are common in many other dating sites.

Other Features

There is a photo password by which you can make your photo personals only viewable to premium members.

You can also get instant SMS notification and latest matches directly to your mobile.

You can join the video club and add your own video for free.

The astrology search is somewhat interesting for the people who believe to make relations according to the stars.

Member Base

I have made lots of searches and found that this site has a tremendous member base. The site claims to be having more than 20 million members and you can see that this claim is not exaggerated judging by its appearance on TV and many other public channels.

The site has members of all age group, religion and countries.

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