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Starting this Friday March 26th 2010, Chemistry.com will be offering a free communication weekend. This event will last 3 days and end on Sunday March 28th. During this exciting promotion all members of Chemistry will be able to flirt, communicate with email, and connect with other members at no cost.

If you are curious about Chemistry and would like to try a matchmaking service which matches you based on the answers in your personality profile questionnaire, then this weekend would be the perfect time to try it out. No credit card is required.

The last Chemistry.com Flirtathon happening a month ago in February (see Story) making this one the 6th free communication weekend we have kept track of. For more information on this popular online dating site, please read our review of Chemistry.com.

The internet traffic audience measuring service, comScore, issued a press release which covered the top growing websites and site categories for February 2010. Since February is usually considered the top month for dating sites (thanks to Valentine's Day) I thought we should take a look.

Traffic to online dating sites in February grew 5 percent to 24.2 million visitors when compared to January. The top 4 dating sites in America for February were:

1. eHarmony with 5 million visitors (up 82 percent) - Read Review
2. Match.com with 3.4 million visitors. - Read Review
3. PlentyofFish.com with 2.8 million visitors. - Read Review
4. SinglesNet.com with 2.6 million visitors. - Read Review

For comparison, other Valentine's Day categories like Flowers/Gifts/Greetings websites saw traffic increase by 7 percent to 32.3 visitors. In this category AmericanGreetings took the number 1 spot at 10.6 million visitors. The e-Cards category grew by 7 percent as well to 23.1 million visitors with MyFunCards.com leading the category with 6.3 million visitors. MyFunCards was up 75 percent when compared to January.

We have a new regular contributor here at Dating Sites Reviews. Ardie is a published writer with over 7 years experience in online dating. You can look forward to her dishing out advice on what does, and does not work with online dating and relationships. You can also expect an honest opinion from Ardie, in her writing about dating sites and the ins and outs of dating in general. Plus, she met "the guy of her dreams" through a dating site, so she knows what she is talking about! 😉

We have published a few of her articles already, which you can find available here.

To find out more about, Ardie, visit her Bio page and if you have any questions or topic suggestions for her next article you can contact her through email with this page.

Tom

It is amazing at how many downloadable applications the iPhone has. As the TV commercials from Apple suggest, there are Apps for almost anything and that includes people who date online or off. Here are 5 iPhone Apps that FreeDating.co.uk reviewed which offers you the tools to organize, research, and escape from your dates:

• The Girlfriend Keeper - Keeps track of the hotness of your relationship based on your contact frequency. Also will automatically send out texts or emails to keep your girl friend happy.
• My Little Black Book - Keeps track of your dates contact information and photos. Allows your rate the date and include additional notes.
• Date Check - Allows you to run background checks of dates. Includes criminal convictions, property and home details, interests and living situations.
• Date Escape - Gives you excuses to get out of bad dates or situations.
• Excuse Me - Like Date Escape except it will initiate a pretend phone call in a certain number of seconds or minutes. Your phone will ring and when you "answer it", a fake voice of a man or woman will be heard to increase the realism of the phone call.

Find out more about this iPhone Apps by reading 5 Dating Apps For People With No Shame.

In mid March, Match.com announced a partnership with Yahoo!7 in Australia. Match.com will be the exclusive dating partner to Yahoo's Australian news and search portal as well as Yahoo!Xtra for New Zealand. You can now reach the new partnered dating service by visiting Yahoo!7 Dating or by clicking on the "Dating" menu item available on the Yahoo!7 home page.

Currently on the Yahoo!7 Dating page visitors have access to both the old dating service and the new Match.com partnered service. The original Yahoo!7 Dating will close it' doors in June, 2010.

As I type this article Compatible Partners is having a 4 day free communication weekend. It started today (March 18th, 2010) and will run to Sunday March 21st, 2010. During this promotion, new and existing members will be able to try out most of the features of the dating site Compatible Partners for no cost. This includes reviewing of matches as well as communicating with members.

This is the 3rd FCW we have tracked for Compatible Partners. The last event was held on the Valentine's Day weekend (see Story) and proved to be a hit with members. if you want to try a dating site for gay singles which matches you with members based on your personality and years of research you should give Compatible Partners a try.

For more information on this dating service for singles looking for same-sex partners, please read our review of Compatible Partners.

Note: FastTracking the guided communication process and viewing of members photos are only available to paid members during this event.