Main  Top Dating Sites Best Free Dating Sites: 2008 Year Rating
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Best Free Dating Sites: 2008 Year Rating |
 After reviewing so many free dating websites located in different countries I decided to build top free dating sites list. It looks like a rating of best dating with totaly free membership (with no hidden cost). I hope that info provided here will be useful for you. So what factors are included into final rating? Brand - Brand shows the level of popularity of selected website worldwide. As you know there are many free dating websites but some of them are well known at least in their country, while others are known worldwide. Also free dating sites don't have large advertising budget and it means that if they have good brand than people are satisfied with their services and so called "mouth advertising" help dating site to survive on the market.
Members database - Members database volume plays significant role in our top free dating sites list. Top free dating sites should have big members database (over 100,000 members and site members should be active. Sometimes happens that website call itself as best free dating site because they have millions members in their database but when you join you see that only one thousand of them remember about their membership on this site.
Design - Design is the weakest part of free dating website. Most of the dating sites with free membership gets a lot of new visitors from search engines and to keep traffic volume they forced to keep design as simple as possible. Unfortunately in most cases as simple means as worse as possible. Yeah, I am not kidding because it is really big a problem when using free dating site. Often this is a reason why members stop using website. Another big design trouble is offensive advertising. Dating sites owners place advertising banners to get profit from their site instead of charging members credit cards. Sometimes those banners don't hurt site design but sometimes you see 5 flashing banners around the text you read. I doubt that many of you would be able to use site comfortably with plenty of ads. Usability - Sometimes it is difficult to navigate even professional designed web sites because navigation links are not visible or placed in not logical place. Free dating site user should feel comfortable when use site. Top dating website should have easy navigation even for those users who never have used dating sites before. Profile Quality - Free dating sites usually don't have matchmaking system or special tools to find a best partner for you. So your success depends only from you. Dating profile quality plays very important role at free dating sites because it should tell more about its owner than dating profiles says on paid dating sites. It happens free dating sites has lower response rate because it's free and many online daters send hundred emails per day to find a penpal. Also often it's impossible to understand who is shown of profile picture because of low photo quality. This factor is also included into profile quality rate. Top free dating sites should have detailed dating profiles with quality photos (better with ability to view full size). Features - This factor shows how many features like forums, gifts, matchmaking systems, online chat free dating site have. Free dating sites listed at the top of this rating should have at least 2-3 working features which are popular for users. Testimonials - This is a public opinion about selected free dating site. Before puting any dating site into top free dating web sites list I am doing small web research and analyze what people are saying about this site. Usually people inform other about their success rate or bad stories and it's enough for me to rate dating site testimonials from 1 to 10. I inserted this factor to make this rating more fair and not too individual. Hope this helps. Best free dating sites by Welcometodating.com version
 | Largest free dating website worldwide with more than 10,000,000 registered members. Huge members database and a lot of possibilities to contact people. Unfortunately site has many weak points like poor design and hard usablilty. But comparing to other free dating sites listed in this rating Plenty Of Fish has much more working features. Especially it's worth to notice plenty of fish forums where you can discuss different topics with other members. However according to some testimonials people on Plenty Of Fish like to chat, discuss forums, do many other things but not to dating online. | Brand level | Members database | Design | Usability | Profile Quality | Features | Testimonials | Overall | | 10/10 | 10/10 | 6/10 | 7/10 | 7/10 | 10/10 | 8/10 | 8.28 |
 | If Webdate.com was one of the first if not the first free dating website. They were very popular in the beginning of the century but now their brand is not so famous as it was 8 years ago. But it is still on of the best sites to use for free in dating niche. Great professional design, mobile dating feature, video chat, forums and other features. | Brand level | Members database | Design | Usability | Profile Quality | Features | Testimonials | Overall | | 7/10 | 8/10 | 10/10 | 10/10 | 7/10 | 8/10 | 8/10 | 8.28 |
| FreeDating.co.uk is top free dating website in United Kingdom and has more than 100.000 active members. It has plenty of user is absolutely free to use. You should not pay anything to contact other FreeDating.co.uk members or search members. Unfortunately site does not have modern features like online chat, instant messenger and others, however you can discuss on different topics in FreeDating.co.uk forums. The bad points of the site are low quality photos, forum moderation and dead profiles. The good points are huge UK singles database, free services, forums and informative dating profiles. | Brand level | Members database | Design | Usability | Profile Quality | Features | Testimonials | Overall | | 5/10 | 7/10 | 6/10 | 7/10 | 8/10 | 7/10 | 8/10 | 6.85 |
 | There is only seriuos disavantage on DateHookUp.com: icostumized members profiles.This makes a little bit difficult to use this site because some members are far away from designer skills and their home pages looks woeful. However regarding all other criterias DateHookUp deserved to be included into best free dating sites list. | Brand level | Members database | Design | Usability | Profile Quality | Features | Testimonials | Overall | | 6/10 | 7/10 | 9/10 | 6/10 | 4/10 | 7/10 | 7/10 | 6.57 |
 | GirlsDateForFree.com is one of the top dating web sites in UK and well known world wide because of one reason - it's free for women. This dating service is 100% free for women. Single UK women can find dates and contact them absolutely for free. That's why GirlsDateForFree database growth was so fast. Unfortunately men are not satisfied with huge competition and requirement to pay for contact. Also design and site navigation needs improvement. | Brand level | Members database | Design | Usability | Profile Quality | Features | Testimonials | Overall | | 6/10 | 7/10 | 6/10 | 7/10 | 7/10 | 6/10 | 7/10 | 6.57 |
 | If you are looking for free dating website - BookofMatches is one of those. You will not be asked to play for the services, more of that you will get all website services for free but for this you should be very calm person not to react to offensive advertising, low pictures quality and many other disadvantages which are usual for free dating websites. | Brand level | Members database | Design | Usability | Profile Quality | Features | Testimonials | Overall | | 6/10 | 7/10 | 7/10 | 6/10 | 4/10 | 8/10 | 7/10 | 6.42 |
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