How did Dating Sites Reviews get started? Good question, way back in early 2003 I found a lot of my friends talking about Dating Sites and asking me which one was the best suited for them (I'm considered the tech-geek among them). After checking out the internet, I discovered hundreds of Online Dating Services.

I decided (since I had already done some of the work checking out these sites already for friends) to create a Dating Reviews Site. It started off with just a few pages at the start and has now grown to what it is now. Over the years I have added many reviews to the site as dating services matured to the point I deemed that a review was in order. Many sites have been considered for review but ultimately no review was created since little or no positive points and features could be found with the dating service when compared to our minimum requirements for a review. Early on it was decided to only create reviews for dating services that meet a minimal set of criteria. We found most singles when visiting our site want to know about good quality online dating services. Who has time to waste reading about dating sites that are not?

Early in 2006 Dating Sites Reviews stepped up its reporting on news which relates to online dating services and singles who use these sites. Another big change in 2006 was when we added the ability for users of this site to submit their own reviews. This review submitting service is for any of the dating sites we have reviewed. The averages of these reviews by you are displayed predominantly under the title of the site on its review page and, beside the title of the site on the review list. We don't score the sites ourselves, since all of the sites reviewed, we feel are better than average and will offer singles a good online dating experience (based on our minimum criteria). We allow you the user to generate the 5 star rating for the dating site. This gives other singles a different perspective and allows the reviewer to add any additional information or insight on the dating site.

By 2008, Dating Sites Reviews had overhauled their user reviews system. Instead of giving one 5 star rating, a user is now required to rate different aspects of a dating site which would then be averaged for an overall rating. This means our reviews now display not only the users overall average rating, but the average rating of each aspect of the dating site, giving our visitors even more critical information about the dating site. Most dating sites have 8 different aspects that must be rated for a user review. Some of these rating criteria include popularity of the site, profile quality and the cost.

On our review pages you will notice graphic ads and text links that point to the dating service being reviewed. If you click on these links and sign up for the service, we do get a small commission for sending the dating service a lead. I realize this may let you think we favour some dating services over others. This is untrue. It's in our best interest to keep our reviews truthful and honest. We want our site to have a good reputation so people like you will recommend our site to friends. It also speaks to our credit that our site has been mentioned in Time Magazine and on CNN's website in a favourable light (see the story Dating Sites Reviews In The Media! for links to some of these articles).

These dating links support this site's cost in hosting fees and gives me a modest income that allows me the time to keep updating and improving Dating Sites Reviews. You would be surprised the amount of time required to maintain a site like this. Some of these tasks include: maintaining the software used with this site , filtering out spam posts and updating reviews with any newly acquired information.

Other features built into Dating Sites Reviews include allowing you the user to voice your opinion, with comments on articles, messages in our forums and as mentioned before, with user dating reviews. These features allows you to either agree or disagree with our opinion. Participating in our forums also allows you to bring up almost any subject that relates to dating and to get other singles opinions and points of view.

I have over 6 personal friends that have tried my recommendations and have found a partner through a Dating Site. Most of them are still together too! I hope I will be able to help you, the reader find the right Dating Site for you. If you have any questions about Internet Dating or comments on my site, please contact us with this form.

Thanks!

Tom Homer
DatingSitesReviews.com