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Top Dating Sites: Date.com
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They say: "Established in 1997, we are a pioneering internet dating site
offering free online personals. For over ten years, our website has helped
thousands of online singles find their perfect dates."
With over 5 million members, Date.com is one of the most popular dating
sites on the web. Basic membership is free and allows you create a profile
and search profiles by location, age, interests, and 100 other personal
preferences. Use the "Show Interest" feature to send your profile to
other members. If that person has Gold Membership they can send a message back.
Subscribers to Date.com tend to be professional, educated, and serious
about finding a successful relationship.
Advanced features, such as Email, Instant Messaging, Voice and Video
greetings, Chat Room and a useful profile keyword search are available
with Gold membership.
In addition, with Date Mobile you can search profiles of other singles and exchange
text messages on your mobile phone via SMS (text messaging) or WAP (wireless).
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Age groups - 18+
Established - 1997
Male/female ratio - 55% male, 45% female
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Members - 5,000,000+
Membership - Standard, Gold
Cost - From 41 cents per day.
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Top Dating Sites: Yahoo! Personals
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They say: " The Yahoo! Personals Internet dating service is for singles
who want to add romance to their lives. Join the Yahoo! Personals site,
meet local singles, and start having the kind of first dates that lead to
second dates... and beyond."
One of the biggest dating sites on the net, with millions of members.
Choose between Yahoo! Personals for casual dating, and Personals Premier for
serious relationships.
Join for free and post a profile, search for singles, flirt with a free
Icebreaker message, take the Relationship Test and a Personality &
Love Style Test. Sign up for Yahoo! Personals to send emails and instant messages.
Yahoo! Personals Premier includes Relationship Fit Ratings
that show your compatibility with other Premier subscribers, an option to search
Premier members, and the ability to search for Premier members.
Click here
for details of Yahoo's Personals Premier membership, plus membership feature comparison.
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Age groups - 18+
Established - 1997
Members - 10,000,000+
Membership - Standard, Yahoo! Personals, Yahoo! Premier
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Cost -
$ 12.49/month for 6 months ($74.95 billed every 6 months - Save 50%)
$ 16.65/month for 3 months ($49.95 billed quarterly - Save 33%)
$ 24.95/month ($24.95 billed monthly)
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Top Dating Sites: Match.com
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They say: "Match.com has one simple mission: to take the lottery out
of love. It's been the idea that's inspired us since 1995, when we
first had the idea of using this new-fangled technology called
the Internet as a better way for people to find each other"
With a huge membership database, Match.com is one of the Internet's top
dating sites. Full featured and easy to use, beginners
and those experienced in online dating will have no trouble
using this site.
Signup is free, with limited functionality. Non members
can browse profiles and can be contacted by subscribers.
Joining is recommended to get the best use from this site.
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Age groups - 18+
Established - 1995
Members - 20,000,000+
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Cost -
$12.99 per month for 6 months
$16.99 per month for 3 months
$29.99 per month for 1 month
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Top Dating Sites: LavaLife.com
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They say: "Lavalife is a vibrant and interactive community where
singles gather. Quickly connect with local, like-minded singles with
many ways to interact."
Well designed, full featured and easy to use, Lavalife.com allows you to
create three distinct profiles; one for dating, one for relationships
and one for intimate contacts. With over 8 Million members the cool, funky
graphics attracts a hip younger crowd.
Free members can view profiles, videos, and send/receive smiles. Full
functionality with premium membership.
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Age groups - 18+
Established - 2001
Members - 8,000,000+
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Cost -
1 month - $29.99
3 months - $56.99
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Top Dating Sites: Friendfinder.com
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2 Million active members and access to the whole FriendFinder network.
FriendFinder Magazine is one of the great additions to this dating site,
offering advise, articles, poetry as well as
a question & answer forum.
Membership comes in three flavours - Standard (non-paying), Silver and Gold.
Gold membership includes enhanced search and your profile bubbles to the
top of search results.
Age groups - 18+
Established - 1998
Male/female ratio - 60% male, 40% female
Members - 2,000,000+
Cost -
Silver - $22.94 USD (1 month), $39.94 USD (3 months), $99.94 (1 year).
Gold - $34.94 (1 month), $59.94 USD (3 months), $139.94 USD (1 year).
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