2009 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award - Free Site
Contributed by: Editor on Sunday, March 07 2010 @ 04:23 pm
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PlentyOfFish.com
Our 2009 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award had over 700 people participate in voting by February. New to the poll this year is voting for your favorite free dating site (question 2 of the poll). On this question, we listed 6 of the most popular free dating sites. There was a bit of an issue in the first half of the poll when one of the dating sites we listed (DownToEarth.com) became a new service called Stir (see Story). In the end, since people already had voted for the dating site and we didn't want to skew the results, DownToEarth was left in the poll but with the notification that it had closed.
The recipient of the 2009 Single's Choice Award for a Free Dating Site is PlentyOfFish.com. They received over 33 percent of the 705 votes. Plenty Of Fish also received our Editor's Top Pick - Free Award as well (see Story). PlentyofFish.com beat the other sites by over 10 percent. This is a wide margin but not as wide as I thought it was going to be. To be honest I expected them to receive around 50 percent of the vote. The popularity of PlentyofFish.com compared to the other free sites is the reason they won. POF has about 4 times more traffic than OKCupid receives. Their popularity is in part thanks to a great marketing campaign, word of mouth, and by them offering a solid online dating experience.
Here are the final results of the poll:
- PlentyOfFish.com
- OkCupid.com
- Craigslist
- DateHookUp.com
- Matchdoctor.com - Review coming soon.
- Down To Earth
This year's runner up was OkCupid with 22 percent of the vote followed by Craigslist with 21 percent of the vote. PlentyofFish.com had an additional 80 votes (or 10% more) over the runner up OkCupid. Following Craigslist was Datehookup with just over 11 percent of the vote. Matchdoctor came in at 9 percent followed by Down To Earth with 3 percent.
Read our review of PlentyOfFish.com.com for more information about this dating service or visit PlentyOfFIsh.com[*1] directly.