Lavalife

This story seems to have slipped under the radar.

On September 14, 2010 Lavalife announced a partnership with Yahoo. Lavalife is now the exclusive dating site for Yahoo! Canada. When users click on "Personals" listed under "Yahoo! Sites" on the Canadian Yahoo homepage they will receive a unique co-branded online dating experience in both English and French. Visitors will not only be able to create a profile on Lavalife, visit the different relationship communities, and communicate with members but, they will have easy access to Yahoo and their services through an extra toolbar that has been added to the Lavalife dating site.

Yahoo also has a similar partnership with Match.com in the United States (see Story).

To find out more about this popular Canadian dating site, please check out our review of Lavalife.

Lavalife has a gift for singles this holiday season. It is a coupon code that gives members 20 percent off on a subscription to Lavalife during the month of December, 2010.

Save 20% on Lavalife (coupon code: XMAS20)

If you are interested in finding out more about this popular online dating site you can read our review of Lavalife.

Lavalife has recently updated the design of their dating site. Gone is the old HTML framed based site (I was shocked they kept it around for so long) and in, is a new more modern look using current technologies like AJAX. This means that web pages do not have to load as much and most tools are now updated right on the screen. For example you can open the Lavalife Instant messenger on the bottom communication toolbar without reloading the page and it will stay open as you surf around the site. The email message indicators for each distinct community (Dating, Relationship and Intimate) are also now located on the bottom toolbar next to the IM window which makes it easier to see when and where your new messages are.

The profile detail view has been redesigned with a new tab interface that keeps all the information organized on one page. The profile thumbnail photos are also larger, not only in this view but in the search results as well. The only thing I didn't really care for was the text profile information in the search results. Instead of being organized in specific locations, the information is displayed one after the other in a paragraph. This makes it difficult to scan the search results quickly and compare the information of each profile since the profile information may not appear exactly in the same spot for each search result.

The one other thing I notice was that Lavalife Speed Dates is currently offline as the Lavalife developers continue to update that part of the website.

For more about this dating service, read our review of Lavalife.

I just noticed that the dating site Lavalife has released a coupon code which is good from April 15, 2010 to May 15, 2010. This promotion gives you 25 percent off on any Lavalife membership. All you need to do is enter the following code when you purchase a membership at Lavalife:

Coupon Code: LAVA25

To use the coupon visit Lavalife directly or check our Lavalife review for more information on this popular dating service.

The Editor's Top Pick - Canadian Award goes to the dating site, Lavalife. While Lavalife is not strictly a dating site for Canadians (it is popular in the United States as well), its heart is in Canada where it first started back in 1987 as a telephone dating service in Toronto. All of Canada's big cities like Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto and Montreal are well represented in Lavalife with plenty of members to browse through in each of Lavalife's 3 dating communities. The dating communities are Dating, Relationship and Intimate, and make Lavalife unique among dating sites since, all of the communities are offered as one service and for one cost. When joining Lavalife members can specify to be included in one or more of the dating communities.

The other plus Lavalife members enjoy over other dating sites is, free members can reply to any paid members email or instant messenger request. This means when you become a paid member of Lavalife you can contact anyone, not just other paid members (like how most dating sites operate). A new feature this year is Lavalife's Speed Dates. As the name suggests this feature allows Lavalife members to go speed dating in the virtual world where you can meet up to 10 local singles in 30 minutes.

If you are a Canadian single and are considering trying an online dating site, then are winner of the 2009 Top Pick - Canadian award, Lavalife, would be the best place to start.

Read our review of Lavalife for more information about this dating service or visit Lavalife directly.

This Year's Runner Up for this award is: Canadian Personals.

The 50 plus singles crowd is not necessarily looking for casual dates. They are looking for a long term relationships that offer companionship. This group of online daters still is being reported as the fastest growing group of singles on dating sites. In the last U.S. Census, seniors are also a growing demographic. It was reported that there are 95.9 million single people in America. 15.8 million (16.5 %) of these people are 65 years or older (see Story). Let's see how some of the more popular dating sites are performing in this demographic.

Match.com is reporting 16 percent of men and 17 percent of women members are 50 or older. Match.com also reported 1,403 million paying subscribers in quarter 3 of this year so this means there are about 236,000 members on Match who are at least 50.

eHarmony's first quarter of 2009 saw a 20 percent growth in users 60 and over when compared to 2008. While we don't have any actual subscriber numbers, we do know that the average age on eHarmony is 35 and that they have been getting about 3.6 million unique visitors per month on their dating sites (US, UK, and Canada).

In the last 5 years Lavalife.com more than doubled its members who are 45 or older. In response to this surge in members, LavalifePRIME was launched in 2007 and now has more than 70,000 members.

To find out more about the dating sites listed here please read our eHarmony review, Match.com review, and our LavalifePRIME review. For more dating site specifically for seniors, check out our Dating Over 50 category.