There are so many different dating sites to choose from and so many varied interfaces. This poses problems for end users of these sites. How do you know which dating sites have real members and not loads of fake ones.? Are there hidden charges and annoying marketing techniques such as ‘Sign up for free’ (but pay to email someone)? Many poor examples of dating sites exist and a lot of them are nothing more than the same sites franchised out to people wanting to run their own web business. Many more are filled nearly completely with fake profiles and even the big sites have been caught out a few times in this manner (as a few big US court cases will verify).
How do you spot a decent Dating Site? Well, a good dating site should meet the following criteria:
- A good Page Rank (PR is a measure of Google’s opinion on the importance of this site)
- No fake profiles, i.e. no profiles made up by the site owners and serious anti-spam measures in place to prevent spammers loading fake profiles
- Fees detailed up-front and clearly identified
- Clean, uncluttered layout, easy to use and non-stressful user interface
- Terms and Conditions (T&C), plus a privacy policy
- Plenty of members (but beware sites which say they have millions of members, many are cheating their customers – most of the big Dating Sites are well known, so if you see a site with millions of members, but nobody has heard of them, then the alarm bells should start to ring)
- A policy of opt-ins rather than opt-outs. What this means is that many sites will, by default, sell/share your details onto their ’sister’ sites or other third parties (on these sites, by default you need to opt-out of such blatant privacy violations – reputable sites will only allow you to opt-in to them). Avoid these opt-out sites and read the small print carefully to make sure your email address does not end up on some mass-mailing list
Pay attention to those 7 points and you should be able to avoid falling foul of scammers or at the very least having your time wasted. Clickinlove is a reputable site which adheres to the above points and engages only in ethical marketing, so feel free to check it out and see if it has what you are after.
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So we now finally have a launch date set for Clickinlove on Friday 5th December.
On this date users will be able to complete their profiles and start messaging other members. There may be small bugs which need ironed-out, but I am confident that most major features are working smoothly.
For the first few days however, I shall limit the search feature and the display of random photos on the front page. This is to allow enough members to upload their photos and for the database to pad out a bit. We have 7000 members waiting to complete their profile, so it should not take too long to get a sizeable number of profiles populated with photos.
From Friday 5th December, members will start to receive an email informing them of the site launch and how to fill out their profile and upload their photos. I anticipate high bandwidth usage during this period. If this persists and is a problem, then the site may need to be relocated to another faster server.
Best regards, Will
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There are so many dating sites online that it is hard to break into this field with a new site. Extensive SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) ability can help reduce the headstart other sites have. By this I mean being innovative in the use and implementation of unique SEO strategies. ’Link Bait’ is a hot SEO term at the moment and refers to the organic harvesting of inbound links (links from other sites pointing to yours). Get the link bait correct and you stand a chance of ramping-up link growth to a useful level which will bring an increase in traffic (people visiting your site).
What is link bait exactly? It is any site content which causes your visitors to naturally want to link to your site. Perhaps it is a piece of code which you give away for free which does something useful, i.e. an innovative script to allow visitors with their own website to track graphically what part of the world their own visitors come from. If you are able to offer your visitors something which they can use and for which they will require a link back to your site, then you are on your way to creating useful link-bait.
The trick to a successful SEO campaign is to be consistent in manually acquiring inbound links, whilst at the same time being innovative in generating genuinely useful link bait for your users. After a while you should reap the rewards of your dedicated link-building attempts.
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