There are plenty of free dating services online now with the introduction of social networks a few years back and the low barrier of entrance on building web dating application software. Most of the free dating services are run as “Mom & Pop” shop type sites and typically you’ll see the software developer also doing the graphics for the site as well as answering all of the customer service inquiries.
DateHookup.com is owned and operated by an acquaintance of mine in the industry, Dustin W. He runs the website out of Sacramento, CA and manages a few other properties outside of online dating as well. It is pretty impressive that he has built this dating community and software with very limited resources and it has become a top 5,000 site that reaches over 877,00 U.S. monthly people according to Quantcast.com. The site is popular among a 35-49, slightly male slanted following. I have seen a few reviews where people have posted negative comments about his service saying that it was ridden with spammers and that he ignored customer service emails, etc. Well, this is one of the pitfalls of using a free dating service online. They are usually a 1-2 person operation so you can’t really blame them for anything when they are working around the clock to keep the spam out and trust me the Nigerian spammers are aggressive and dealing with people logging in from proxy’s around the world and copying profiles from other dating site can get tedious to police especially when they know your service is free to use for sending users messages. The best bet is to keep your guard up when getting contacted by someone on a free dating service and to make sure you never fall for the send me gifts and money scams ever. Ask for multiple photos of the person to ensure they are who they say they are. You can even ask them to take a picture with a sign that has your name on it if you are at all suspicious of a scammer.
DateHookup.com has a great dating forum community that is pretty active but you’ll need to sift your way through some of the garbage topics that people talk about. It can get a little smutty at times but aren’t all bulletin boards like that. Dustin usually has about 8,000 – 10,000 singles online at any given time and the site is very easy to use and search for singles in your area by proximity and age.
Like all free dating sites, he makes money on his advertising with Google AdSense and with other premium dating services. He does really well with the search engines for organic results (non-paid) and also buys keyword advertising on sites like Google, Yahoo and MSN. This helps keep his community very active so you can always be assured that new members are joining daily.
Date Hookup is a great place to start your online dating adventure and explore how dating sites work and how to maximize your experience on them. I see that many people use free dating services as a stepping stone before they join and pay for the premium dating sites like: Match.com, Perfectmatch.com, eHarmony and Lavalife.
If you are looking for other recommended free dating services then give these a try as well: Meeta.com, PlentyofFish.com, OKCupid.com, NetClub.com and Webdate.com.
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5 responses so far ↓
1 lostabet // Jun 18, 2009 at 8:32 AM
Site is a scam, even dustin himself has fake profiles on it that he uses to generate hits to the site.
2 1pissedmomma // Jul 9, 2009 at 6:08 AM
A lot of vulgar harrassment by a person or persons allowed to create multiple profiles each day making death threats towards women and children and nothing being done about keeping them from the site.
3 ROSE // Oct 16, 2009 at 9:15 AM
you are right about that i caught my husband recently on that, he posted himself as 10 years younger etc……
4 Brian // Feb 10, 2010 at 12:02 PM
I sent a lot of friend requests to a lot of girls on there and none of them read the request it’s been 3 days now something isn’t right
5 rosy // Feb 28, 2010 at 12:57 PM
Hi I just wanted to say that I’ve met someone on datehook up who was not at all fake. I would actually like to thank datehook up for the experience.
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