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Right on the heels of Valentine's Day, eHarmony will be having a free communication weekend which will run from Friday February 17th to Monday February 20th. This promotion is available to all members in the United States and no credit card is required.

With the increased popularity of online dating during this romantic week and eHarmony's reputation of creating relationships that are long-term and which often lead to marriage, you can expect this service to be bustling with new members eager to meet their matches. All you need to do is spend some time and create your profile. Once completed, you will receive your first matches that you then can start to communicate with. Features not included during free communication events are photos, Secure Call or Skip to Email.

By our estimation, this will be eHarmony's 37th free communication event with the last one happening during the New Year celebration (see Story).

To find out more about this popular dating service designed to find you a long-term relationship, you can read our review of eHarmony.

Recipient of Gold
Match.com

Recipient of Silver
eHarmony

Recipient of Bronze
Badoo

We wrapped up the 2011 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award poll today. It ran from October 1st, 2011 and ended today, January 30, 2012. We almost reached 1000 votes, the most we ever have had. In total we had 987 voters who answered 2 questions. The first being which paid dating site would you recommend for the "2011 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award". The second question asked which free dating site you would recommend.

The annual Single's Choice Award is our most important award we give out. This is because it is voted on by you. Collectively our visitors spend many more hours online with these dating sites compared to what it is possible for us to do. We do have our own opinions as well which is why we have the Editor's Top Pick awards. These awards are based on our own experiences as well as the comments we receive from visitors throughout the year.

For 2011 we listed the top eight dating sites for you to vote on. The three dating sites which received the most votes will get an award, Gold for first, Silver for second and Bronze for third.

The recipient of the Gold 2011 Single's Choice Award is Match.com. We also gave this dating site the Editor's Top Pick - Overall award as well. Match.com received 331 votes, which is 33.5 percent of all votes. Most other dating sites in the poll only were voted on about 8 percent of the time which makes Match.com almost 5 times more popular than most other sites.

The recipient of the Silver 2011 Single's Choice Award is eHarmony. eHarmony has won this award 4 times in a row. They had 22.5 percent of the vote which works out to 222 votes. eHarmony's match system is as popular as every with users which is also why they were the recipient of the Editor's Top Pick - Match System award as well

The recipient of the Bronze 2011 Single's Choice Award is Badoo. This up an coming social dating site made great strides in popularity in only one year to be able to earn the bronze award. While they only had under half of the votes than what the winner of the silver award received, Badoo did get a respectable 95 votes, which works out to almost 10 percent of all votes.

Here are this year's standings for the Single's Choice award for all dating sites in the poll.

1. Match.com
2. eHarmony
3. Badoo
4. Zoosk
5. Chemistry
6. Date.com
7. PerfectMatch.com
8. Lavalife

Thanks to everyone who took the time to vote for the 2011 Single's Choice Award. Our visitors in 2012 will appreciate knowing which dating services are the most popular.

Here are the eHarmony coupon codes for two of their more popular promotions. Both of these coupon codes expire on December 31, 2012.

eHarmony Coupon #1

eHarmony Coupon #2

These coupon codes listed above are valid on eHarmony in the United States (eHarmony.com).

For Canadian singles, go here for our eHarmony Canada (eHarmony.ca) coupons.

Read our review of eHarmony for more information about this online matchmaking service.

Recipient
eHarmony

The Editor's choice for the Top Pick - Innovative Award for 2011 goes to the matchmaking service eHarmony. Last year eHarmony continued to improve their mobile and tablet applications which resulted in a huge surge in popularity. The eHarmony mobile dating app has now been downloaded more than 1 million times and gets downloaded on average 10 thousand times a day.

eHarmony's mobile dating app has been updated several times throughout 2011. Each update has brought new improvements like the streamlining of the profile creation process. They have reduced the number of profile questions to 100 while ensuring that with less questions the matching process will still produce high quality matches. The interface has also received an update which requires less key presses when answering questions and relies instead more on the touch screen. eHarmony's mobile questionnaire now takes about 10 minutes to complete and it will auto save after each question so if you run out of time you can always come back later to finish your profile.

If you are looking for a highly innovative dating service that takes technology seriously and offers a great user experience not only online but through the iPhone and Android devices, then you should consider checking out eHarmony.

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

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

Recipient
eHarmony

This year the Editor's Top Pick - Match System Award once again goes to eHarmony. We have been handing out this award since 2008 and every year eHarmony has been the winner. The fact that eHarmony’s matching system delivers high quality matches to their members which are not just based on what a member wants, but also on what personality traits that scientific research suggests works best in a relationship, is the key to this dating site’s success.

With eHarmony being in business for more than 10 years they have had a chance to really refine their service. In 2011 they continued to do so by adding additional features and information to their existing website and improving on their mobile applications. 2011 was the year mobile dating in general really took off and eHarmony made sure to meet their members demands by releasing high quality and fully functional apps.

eHarmony is one of the most popular matchmaking sites online. If you are looking for a long-term relationship with a matching system backed by relationship studies and if you are more interested in being match on personality and not just someone’s interests then eHarmony is a dating service you should try.

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

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

eHarmony is having a free communication event this weekend which starts Friday, December 30th and ends on Monday January 2nd at 11:59pm. It has been a while since their last event so those of you interested in giving eHarmony a try, now is the time to do so. With the recent holidays and the New Year being celebrated on Sunday you can expect dating services like eHarmony to be extra busy; which means more singles to meet online.

For those of you who have not heard of eHarmony's free communication weekends (FCW), they allow new and existing members to communicate for free. Remember it is also free to create a profile as well so there is no cost or credit card required to enjoy this event. The only features not included during this promotion are photos, Secure Call (a phone service) and skipping to email in the guided communication process.

The last FCW happened during Labour Day in September (see Story). From our count this will be eHarmony's 36th free communication event.

To find out more about this online dating site you can take a look at our eHarmony review.