Awards

Recipient
Match.com

After four years Match.com is still is our number one recommendation for singles interested in online dating. This is why they are the recipient of the Editor's Top Pick - Over All Award for 2010.

In North America Match.com is ideal for almost any single to join. There male to female membership ratio is almost at 50 percent and they have one of the largest active membership databases. Other attributes that may be deal breakers for a person like age, Religion and specific interests also are not a factor due to the large number of members Match.com has. Best yet, when you purchase a six month membership at Match.com, you are guaranteed that you will find a match within the first six months, or your membership will be extended an additional six months at no cost to you.

Match.com is not standing still either. Throughout 2010 they continued to innovate and add new features to make online dating not only easier but more successful for their members. For example, mobile dating applications were released for Android and Blackberry phones (the iPhone app was released in 2009) as well for the iPad. Partnerships also were expanded. Trusted companies like Yahoo! and Glamour magazine choose Match.com as the official destination for online dating on their respective websites.

Read our review of Match.com for more information about this online dating service or visit Match directly.

This Year's Runner Up for this award is: Zoosk

We are a little late starting this year, but the Single's Choice Award poll for 2010 is now online and open for voting. This is the first step in our annual Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards were we recognize the best online dating sites of the year (we have been handing out awards since 2007). For 2010, the Awards now includes 12 Editor's Top Picks Awards and of course our popular Single's Choice Award where visitors get to decide which dating service deserves the spotlight.

This year there are 17 dating sites to choose from for the Single's Choice Award. Voters will be able to cast 2 votes. One for the best paid dating site and a second one for the best free dating site. Here is the poll for the Singles Choice Award, please cast your votes:

Recipient of Gold
Match.com

Recipient of Silver
eHarmony

Recipient of Bronze
Yahoo! Personals

We closed the 2009 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award poll last month (Feb. 18) with a total of 705 votes from the public. This is over 100 more votes than last year's Single's Choice Awards. It is good to see people participating in the poll since ultimately it is online daters like yourselves who decide which service becomes the popular one to use. Plus, singles who visit our site and are new to online dating use our awards as a tool to indicate which dating sites to try out first.

As with last year we listed the top 10 dating sites for our visitors to vote on. The top 3 voted dating sites got an award, Gold, Silver and Bronze. The one thing we did different this year was we added a second question to our poll asking which free dating site would be your top choice for an award. To find out the answer to this question, check out this story.

The recipient of the Gold 2009 Singles's Choice Award is Match.com. This is the third year in a row that this dating site has won the Gold Single's Choice Award which shows Match.com continues to be the market leader in online dating. Match.com has a proven record of success and many members worldwide who know if you want to be serious about finding a partner, Match.com is the leading dating site to join. This year Match.com received 2 percent more votes than in 2008 for a total of 201 (29% of the total vote).

The recipient of the Silver 2009 Singles's Choice Award is eHarmony. This is eHarmony's second year to win this award. They earned 22 percent of the votes (same as last year) which was 153 total votes out of 705. The dating site with the famous matching system certainly had a number of changes this year. There was new features added, profile tweaks and a successful Facebook fan page.

The recipient of the Bronze 2009 Singles's Choice Award is Yahoo! Personals. Yahoo also won this award last year as well except they slipped 2 percent this year and ended up with 11 percent of the total vote, which means they had 74 votes. While Yahoo may have taken 3rd place they still run a first rate dating service. All you have to do is log into their dating site to find out why.

This year's standings for the Single's Choice award for all dating sites in the poll are (click the dating site name to read our full review):

1. Match.com
2. eHarmony
3. Yahoo! Personals
4. Chemistry
5. Lavalife
6. SinglesNet.com
7. PerfectMatch.com
8. FriendFinder.com
9. True.com
10. Date.com

We would like to give a big THANKS to everyone who participated this year in the Single's Choice Award.

Recipient
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:

1. PlentyOfFish.com
2. OkCupid.com
3. Craigslist
4. DateHookUp.com
5. Matchdoctor.com - Review coming soon.
6. 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 directly.

Recipient
Passion.com

The Editor's choice for the Top Pick - Sexy Award goes to Passion.com. This intimate encounters website community continues to be popular with the singles crowd, thanks in large part to how easy it is to meet and interact with new people. Members can email, instant message, text chat and webcam chat (as a group or one on one). There are special interest groups to join and blogs to read. With these features and tools, Passion.com makes it is easy to expand your network of friends and partners.

Passion.com is an international adult dating site which has many men and women actively meeting and communicating with each other. They now have over 33 million members with at least 100,000 members logged in at any one time. This interactive dating service even has a guarantee. If you do not meet up with someone in 3 months, your membership will be extended an additional 3 months for free.

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

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

Recipient
Plentyoffish.com

After careful review, we have determined that Plentyoffish.com is the winner of the Editor's Top Pick - Free Award. This service is by far the largest of the free dating sites on the internet. While PlentyofFish.com (POF) does offer a paid component now, most features of the dating site continue to be free, including all communication between members.

So why did we decide on POF? The answer is easy, members! This dating site has many active users; no other free dating site even comes close. Part of the reason why PlentyofFish.com is so popular is they offer all the tools needed for online dating. When user's signup you get to fill out a typical profile for yourself that contains most attributes people consider when dating someone. When searching for singles comes into play you will have a number of options available to you, from the basic search which is quick and easy, to the advance search which allows you to search on any attribute in a profile. With members you like, communication is a breeze with the built in and easy to use private messaging system. Privacy and safety is also important on POF, for example you can specify the types of members you do not want contacting you.

PlentyofFish.com also has a few other free relationship services for members. You can take the Relationship Chemistry Predictor which contains 48 questions about yourself and your personality. Once completed POF will then match you with other members based on the answers you have given. There is also a Relationship Needs Assessment which better helps you understand what you require in a relationship. Once you have taken the assessment you are given an action plan to help you discover if your potential partners will meet your needs.

If you are looking for a dating site which is free to use then PlentyofFish.com should be the first service on your list. Chances are they will have plenty of members actively seeking a relationship living in your area.

Read our review of Plentyoffish.com for more information about this online dating service or visit Plentyoffish.com directly.

This Year's Runner Up for this award is: OkCupid.com.