I am a little late with stats for April but here are just a few numbers:
Our traffic is growing quite fast, and we had a record number of new registrations in April 2007, 3,867 new members joined us.
Some older stats here: October Stats.
Yes, one of the main problems on free dating sites such as OneLoveNet.com is that many scammers are using them. Although we use a number of automatic and manual methods to block and delete these scams our methods can never be 100% safe.
A dating scam usually involves the following steps:
Never send any money to someone you met on the Internet! If you suspect that a member’s profile is fake please imediatelly use the Admin Alert function we have on all profiles, we will investigate and take the required steps to delete / block the profile in question.
Being the fastest growing free dating site, our job, to reveiew all accounts are getting harder, day after day, this is why we always need your help and support to stop or at least minimize dating scam on our website.
…yes, this is exactly what we are doing at TradeHolding.com B2B Network. Buyers and Sellers state what are the products and services they are regulary selling and buying. Then, we are quickly calculating how many sellers are selling the product you are buying and viceversa, then you have the ability to send all of them a message, this way buyers and sellers are connected and a deal is very close. 
This feature is especially good in buying process, as an RFQ (request for quote), imagine the need to buy olive oil, or icumsa sugar. You just define your exact needs and send it to hundreds of qualified sellers! They will get back to you with their offer and you have the ability of selecting the best offer!
We received an excellent feedback from members who already tried this feature, they are quite satisfied with the responses. If you would like to try this, just join through one of our partner sites (for example: European Business Directory).
OneLoveNet.com, free dating website is now 5 months old. We are close to 3,000 members… growing exponentially day after day. I still wonder where would this site be if I would have launched it in 2003-2004, when I initially built the script.
Anyway, we are working hard to follow member advices and try to build a community that will be extremely useful for members. We are close to launch the chat section, hopefully this will make even more contacts between the members.
Some new sections we launched recently:
Our Alexa ranking also have an exponential growing trend, not to mention Quantcast or Compete rankings.
OneLoveNet.com is still a small player in the free dating industry but if they can keep this growing trend I really think by the end of 2007 the site can become one of the top 5 free dating sites.
If you would like to write an article on your blog about OneLoveNet.com or place a link to us from your website, you are more than welcome. In return, I will give you a free featured link on TradeHolding.org, Business Websites & Links webdirectory.
David Evans, wrote an interesting post in his blog about Selecting the Right Dating Software. On a similar theme, Mark Brooks, wrote about List of Dating Softwares and Services. Very good points although I have my own comments as well.
In my opinion, you are not going to make a big deal with a $50 - $1000 script you buy. You can not become successful if you do not have your own development team or if you know nothing about servers and scripting / db. Show me one successful dating site using a script that is sold in tens or hundreds of copies. I bet you can’t.
Create your own software and be prepared to work on it as your community is growing. This is what we (or me alone???) are doing at www.onelovenet.com dating site. I could have bought a $50 script and launch the website a lot more earlier, but I preferred to wait a few more months and develope something I can understand from A to Z.
Actually, I had a prealfa version in 2003… of the script used right now on OneLoveNet.com. I think if I would have launched in 2003 my site could be somewhere in top although I have to admit that at that time I did not have my current marketing knowledge. In 2003, I had been involved in some other B2B related projects and put away the dating one, the dating market was saturated and I really didn’t have a marketing plan. Now… the market is even more saturated, but I have some marketing knowledge and have a real plan and budget.
Dave wrote: “I still say it costs several million dollars in marketing money to build up a decent-sized dating site. Some things get cheaper like hardware and development costs due to advances in software. Marketing just gets more and more expensive.” The question is what we call decent-sized dating site: 100,000 members? 1 million? 10 million? In my opinion, you can build a 100,000 member community in 12 - 18 months with much less than 1 million dollars. You just need to know where to put your money. Yes, affiliate marketing is a waste of money. But there are many other ways to promote your website. One of them… probably the most important one is the viral effect. Build something that will make your members talk about your site. Viral marketing is a very powerful tool and if you use it wisely, it can be your best friend. And, someone should give me those “several million dollars”, I can make a miracle.
So, to summarize, to start a new niche or general dating site in 2007:
Cristian Mezei’s Webxperience is 2 years old. Congrats man!
According to their definition, Webxperience is an internet library and directory. Indeed, sites and links are organized very well, just like in a real library. From categories like Arts & Hummanities, Business & Economy to Society and Culture, you find there virtually everything. According to Google, 13,300 pages are indexed from their domain.
They celebrate the site’s 2 year anniversary, and they offer a 50% discount on site submissions. So, act quickly and get some quality backlinks for less.
Congrats again Cristian.
Just checked compete.com today and I noticed that we are the leader among other popular B2B websites.
What do we see from this graph? TradeHolding.com Members spend 1.5 times more minutes on our site than on importers.com and 3 times more (!) minutes than on tradekey.com. Quite an achievement! And, if we consider that TradeHolding.com B2B Network has many external partners as well (not running under the domain name: TradeHolding.com), our leadership is incontestable.
Here are 3 region specific B2B websites, all part of TradeHolding.com B2B Network:
3 months passed from this year and things are looking good on our web portfolio.
Our websites reached about 500,000 unique visitors, we find this amazing. We had days, when our sites were visited by more than 20,000 people. The distribution of our traffic is:
Our member base is also growing quite fast, especially on the B2B Network, every day between 200 - 300 new members join our B2B sites. But, the dating database is also growing, although we could have a lot more profiles with nice fotomodel pictures… but invest a lot of time to imediatelly delete fake members and profiles (and we also automate things). But, we prefer to have less but more real member profiles.
Our year to year revenue is up by 35%, we are quite satisfied with this.
We haven’t had the time yet to launch our business social networking site, Kugli.com, mainly because the lack of time and because we work in the same time on many new and old projects. Our future plans include the launching of Kugli.com (don’t want to estimate when will this happen…) and we already started to work on a new global real estate portal. We also have some innovative ideas, we are 40% ready with a project that could revolutionize PPC market but right now it is postponed… I need to find a few more creative minds… well I can not do everything alone.
And now, let’s spend some time with the family. Happy Easter to all of you!
It looks like there are many new free dating sites lately. We also launched a new dating site a few months ago: www.onelovenet.com and although it is quite hard to enter the free dating market, it is extremely challenging and if you have the knowledge and the right budget, the results will be showing up. I am talking from my own experience.
It is fun creating an environment where new loves are created and you can actually find your soulmate. Although in today’s world, when more than 50% of the marriages are ending with a divorce, someone can have more than one soulmate in a lifetime.
My free dating industry predictions for 2008:
More to come.
Yes, on the Internet, everybody can become a fotomodel. Not a fake one with a fake picture as we mentioned a few weeks ago on our post: Dating Sites with Fotomodels.
We have recently added a picture rating section to OneLoveNet.com, the fastest growing free dating website. Yes, our growth is just as we expected, everything is looking good, we have more and more singles online and our Alexa ranking is showing a +2,8 million change in our rankings. So, I will quote from the site: “Picture Rating at OneLoveNet.com allows you to browse profiles & pictures radomly and vote on them. Meet & Vote on Sexy Boys, Sexy Girls, Sexy Men, Sexy Women and Singles from all over the world and add your profile and picture to find out if you are sexy or not, hot or not or if you are just looking for new friends.”
So, add your profile and your sexiest photo and find out how sexy and hot you are.