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DateHookup.com Review
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User rating
 
 3.9 (4)

Site info

Web address: http://www.datehookup.com
Category: Free dating
DateHookup.com launched in July of 2002. DateHookup.com is absolutely free to join and use and it is true. According to many dating industry researches this website included into top5 free dating website worldwide and I think that they deserved to be there.
As I already said Datehookup is one of the oldest free dating websites and sure its brand known. But unfortunately site traffic is 5-6 times lower than at PlentyOfFish dating website which is largest and most popular in US and Canada. I would say that DateHookup brand name is not so popular because they don't run any PR-campaigns in the press and don't buy advertising as some other free dating websites do. They depend on search engine traffic and word-advertising. These types of advertising are effective but unfortunately don't increase brand status.

DateHookup Members Database

There is no official numbers posted regarding DateHookUp members but I tried to investigate deeper and found some interesting stats . According to this data Datehookup have around 1.5 million unique visits monthly. It is around 50.000 unique visits per day. Ative members database should be lower because at least 5000-1000 thousands of daily visits are new visitors. All others visits are active members who login to their dating profiles. I think that DateHookUp have around 30.000 active members. It is really great numbers sure the best in the dating industry but for average dating website it is good achievement.

DateHookup Profile Quality Review

Profile quality and designs are always a problems on free dating websites. Datehookup.com would be one of the best dating website by this criteria in their niche if they would disallow users to change colors for their profiles. They have perfect default layout and color palitte they have good accurate design with no disadvantage but when members take control over their profile it looks flustrating. Profiles are very informative and informational quality is really good but some profiles are impossible to read because of bad colors. At least I hate when blue text is written on red background, or white letters on gray background..Site owners should make something to avoid MySpace style on their well designed dating website.

Scam on DateHookup.com

For sure free dating website would not run any scam protection system to make their safe. It costs money and free dating sites don't have budget for this. But Datehookup owners tried to decrease scam chances by removing scam-countries from they country list. So visitors from Russia, Ghana can't register with their country name but can create profile and write another country. At least I registered there as US citizen but I live in Europe. However I did not find any scam reports on DateHookup.com on the net.

DateHookup Features Review

The site offers all the features you would expect from a free online dating site:  profile customizing (what I dislike here), forums, blog, dating tips and friend system. Site is not overloaded with blinking features which are not popular or actual for free dating websites. Datehookup have most used features which have demand on free dating websites.

DateHookup Pros Review

First of all I would say that this is first free dating website which carries about site design and navigation. It has very simple and easy to use interface what attracts new members. Even if you are new to online dating you would not experience any problems here. Members photos are accurate and looks like they are pre-moderated (what usually is missing on other free dating sites). Sure another good point is that DateHookUp is 100% free to use. You really don't need to pay for using their service. They survive from selling advertising space on their site. Comparing to other dating sites their features are not so modern but all of them are well working and it is easy to use them. Also I liked their language style, site languange is very simple and friendly without official notes. You will never feel yourself uncomfortable with this website.

DateHookup Cons Review

There is only seriuos disavantage on DateHookUp.com. It is costumized members profiles. Website should have one design on all pages and when you browse profiles and every profile have own design it is impossible to concetrate and read members profile. DateHookUp.com have good default profile page and I like it but not when members edit them. If it is not a trouble for you than you will enjoy this website.

User reviews

Average user rating from: 4 user(s)

Overall rating: 
 
 3.9
Design:
 
 4.0   (4)
Profile setup:
 
 4.8   (4)
Ease of use:
 
 3.8   (4)
Members database:
 
 4.5   (4)
Communication:
 
 4.0   (4)
Profiles Quality:
 
 3.5   (4)
Features:
 
 4.3   (4)
Membership price:
 
 4.8   (4)
Matching:
 
 4.0   (4)
Scam protection:
 
 3.0   (4)
Customer service:
 
 2.8   (4)
 
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Datehookup has users with lots of mutliple profiles

Overall rating: 
 
 3.0
Design:
 
 4.0
Profile setup:
 
 4.0
Ease of use:
 
 4.0
Members database:
 
 3.0
Communication:
 
 3.0
Profiles Quality:
 
 3.0
Features:
 
 3.0
Membership price:
 
 4.0
Matching:
 
 3.0
Scam protection:
 
 1.0
Customer service:
 
 1.0
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Reviewed by Peggy
June 14, 2011
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

Way too many folks with multiple profiles, you can't be sure if your actually talking with a man who is actually a woman or vise wersa. You won't get anywhere with anyone on there. People that are only into playing the field, random hookups, short term flings, FWB, NSA or whatever they're calling it now. Most of the women and men on DATEHOOKUP.COM are bitter, arrogant, narcissistic, rude, disrespectful and crass. The same goes for the men. The site is full of needy, desperate people looking for quick hookup or to get their freak on. The women are all about and full of themselves. The site attracts those that are ignorant, less educated (the
ones that have no more than an HS diploma if that) and rough around the edges. DH is nothing more than Tagged meets a poor man's version of AFF.
The site is full of perverts, players, creeps, criminals, clowns, miscreants and
psychos. People you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley. It is populated by people who have too much time on
their hands and no social life in the outside world. Losers essentially that are
rude, crass and disrespectful towards others. Not only that but you have to
deal with cyber cliques and bullies, trolls, drama queens, Right Wing zealots
and moronic simpletons. The forums are for miserable and bitter people who
can't get dates or are not fit to date. DH is a
site as a whole is intellectually vacuous and stagnant. It's best to avoid the forums all together because you'll get nothing out of them. Seems like Dustin
the owner of DH has created one antisocial networking site. The people are
so full and about themselves that they don't need anyone in their miserable,
pathetic lives. A site like this makes POF seem half decent. I would never
recommend DH to anyone who is looking for a serious relationship. Granted,
DH is a free site so you get what you pay for. Buyer beware. My advice is to
avoid DH and save yourself the grief and aggravation.

About you

Gender Female
Why you've used this service? Find long-term relationship
How long you were a member? More than 1 year
When you were a member? January 01, 1970

About site

Good points Easy to get navigate through
Bad points Way too may folks with multiple profiles
 

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Overall rating: 
 
 5.0
Design:
 
 5.0
Profile setup:
 
 5.0
Ease of use:
 
 5.0
Members database:
 
 5.0
Communication:
 
 5.0
Profiles Quality:
 
 5.0
Features:
 
 5.0
Membership price:
 
 5.0
Matching:
 
 5.0
Scam protection:
 
 5.0
Customer service:
 
 5.0
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Reviewed by Brenda
February 22, 2011
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful

It is a wounderful site. It helped me find my soon to be husband.

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Gender Female
Why you've used this service? Find long-term relationship
How long you were a member? 1-3 months
 

DateHookup is No Farce At all

Overall rating: 
 
 3.9
Design:
 
 4.0
Profile setup:
 
 5.0
Ease of use:
 
 3.0
Members database:
 
 5.0
Communication:
 
 4.0
Profiles Quality:
 
 3.0
Features:
 
 5.0
Membership price:
 
 5.0
Matching:
 
 4.0
Scam protection:
 
 3.0
Customer service:
 
 2.0
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Reviewed by Hookupfun
September 15, 2010
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful

I will tell you from experience DateHookup is full of real ladies. There are I am sure a set of fakes, although I have not run upon but one so far. It has been the most positive site I have been part of to date by far. I have met up with 5 ladies and have regular conversations with a couple others. I have only been a member for about a month or so. These are good numbers for me and seem to be pretty good from what I have read from other guys. Not a farce for sure.

 

Bad designed but well working site

Overall rating: 
 
 3.8
Design:
 
 3.0
Profile setup:
 
 5.0
Ease of use:
 
 3.0
Members database:
 
 5.0
Communication:
 
 4.0
Profiles Quality:
 
 3.0
Features:
 
 4.0
Membership price:
 
 5.0
Matching:
 
 4.0
Scam protection:
 
 3.0
Customer service:
 
 3.0
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Reviewed by admin
September 15, 2010
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful

Good choice for free dating.

About site

Good points Big members database
Good default design
Good set of features (for free site)
Bad points The only bad point is that people can edit their profiles design and you as user will visit hundreds of profiles with different color set (sometimes it hard to read text)
 
 
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