Top US Dating Search Terms in June 2008 according to hitwise… Yahoo personals has vanished in under 2 years from the top 10.
1. match.com 4.67%
2. plentyoffish 3.40%
3. plenty of fish 2.63%
4. singlesnet.com 2.48%
5. singlesnet 2.18%
6. adam4adam 1.79%
7. eharmony 1.41%
8. plentyoffish.com 1.37%
9. www.plentyoffish.com 1.21%
10. datehookup 1.09%
July 17, 2008 at 9:15 am |
So that effectively puts POF in the #1 spot above Match.com with 8.61% of search traffic in the top 10 when you combine your #2, #3, #8 and #9 spots.
Go Markus!
July 17, 2008 at 9:49 am |
Because you are giving a lot of ‘value’ to your visitors absolutely for free, is one strong reason why you are getting so much traffic to your site. Why pay when you can get better quality for free
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July 17, 2008 at 5:12 pm |
This stat will be messed up a bit next month because when your website went down it was one of the most popular search terms on google trends.
July 19, 2008 at 1:25 pm |
[...] It is fun to compare them with the same list dated 2006 [...]
July 20, 2008 at 12:38 pm |
I guess people for the KISS approach.
July 21, 2008 at 12:17 am |
My Yahoo search in the NYC area yields 313 results.
My Match search in the NYC area yields 1,321 results.
Match dwarfs Yahoo by 4 to 1.
July 21, 2008 at 6:04 pm |
Yahoo!’s dedication to the personals biz declined at the exact same rate.
July 24, 2008 at 3:04 pm |
yahoo was all too confusing. you have a great free email site and then to use the dating feature you had to pay?
not even aol made you pay to use love@aol. although they just rolled over and became match.com
July 25, 2008 at 4:39 am |
I can not create one friggin website that gets even a few visitors. I am a total friggin loser. One year of adsense and still have not hit a lousey hundred bucks.
http:www.hosedme.com
http:www.lolcritters.com
http:www.diyhelpforum.com
http:www.homeandgardentime.com
I see so many sites much lamer then mine yet they get so much traffic. What am I missing (be nice)? What is the secret sauce? Desperate web loser!
July 25, 2008 at 7:19 pm |
I was blocked from plentyoffish.com I have already made a strong connection with a beautiful lady and now I am blocked and can’t even register. If I do register with new accounts, they get deleted
Can someone please help
July 27, 2008 at 5:54 am |
The kind of men you meet on Plentyoffish – http://www.creeperfeature.com
July 27, 2008 at 6:00 pm |
Sam, why were you blocked?
July 28, 2008 at 6:16 pm |
Hi Markus,
Interesting stats. As a banker, I prefer to see trends as opposed to snapshots. So I looked up your site along with others at Google Trends and found that yours has a steady growth curve over several years’ worth of user searches. This validates your “word of mouth” explanation. For example, while other sites spend tons of cash and get spurts of interest, nothing sticks or shows any real growth.
I trust you’ll include this chart in your business plan when seeking additional capital – the little blue curve on this chart is delicious.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=plentyoffish%2C+match.com%2C+eharmony&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
July 29, 2008 at 3:09 am |
Google adsense fucking sucks. I don’t believe the Marcus hype anymore. It all BS. Adsense does not pay squat. Most of the little twerps online refuse to click the ads. Keep your day job, Google adsense fucking sucks the big one!!!
July 29, 2008 at 3:13 am |
Instead of hanging on to Markus’s every word like a bunch of school girl groupies go out do something your self. You will fail though if you still think you get make money from those crooks at Google adsense and all those little fucking peckerwood geeks who refuse to click the ads to spite you.
July 29, 2008 at 3:15 am |
Show Me The Money Marcus. Let’s see another one of those big checks from Google Adsense!
July 29, 2008 at 3:19 am |
A message to all you little tight ass internet fuck wads- when you visit a site with adsense click the ad out of courtesy to the web owner. They do allot of work and the least you ungrateful little fucking pricks can do is to click an ad.
July 30, 2008 at 3:44 am |
Markus is the spitting image of this guy – http://creeperfeature.com/?p=75
July 30, 2008 at 3:46 am |
Spitting image as far as looks go I mean!!!
July 30, 2008 at 9:23 am |
Hi,
I love you Mark, we have managed to help me find my soul mate
So from my point of view , plentyoffish is the biggest / best dating site out there today.
Kisses,
September 3, 2008 at 9:32 am |
I did a quick search of the term dating on Google,MSN,Yahoo. Google and MSN does not show plentyoffish.com in top 10. Yahoo shows your site as 9th and personals.yahoo.com as 1st. Most people do not go past the first page of search result.
April 29, 2009 at 11:13 am |
One thing I neglected to mention, None of the dating sites act responsible, they hardly ever answer email questions, ( like when Si8nglesnet suddenly with out any warning took down it’ forum, and chat rooms), or Yahoo when you email them and tell them stop sending the same 15 (new), members matches for the month. or match.com ( forget it they just plain suck, HINT changing your name from AOL to any thing else does not fix the problem).
Every dating site Free or not renders more spam or fake profiles than you could ever get in real life. The Grass is not greener. you will meet the same people you see in Wall mart.
Also there is no such thing as big and beautiful, or a “few extra” pounds, Fat is fat, and put in your photo, so we can tell which ones not to click on, ( I said your picture, and make it recent). If you have a hand on your shoulder, or a large dog, or a photo of a sunset, I’m not ever going to write you.
May 4, 2009 at 2:32 am |
Awesome stuff!!!!!!!!!
It is the best blog!!!
i love this blog!!!!!
Go ahead and keep it up
September 22, 2009 at 6:57 am |
[...] personals contact “system” is pretty much dishonest and scummy. I also ran across this blog post which seems to indicate that Y! personals is going down. I can understand [...]
December 1, 2009 at 11:00 pm |
Nice website, I was doing a little web browsing and happened onto your blog, I was wondering if you knew your website is displaying strangely in the K-mellon browser. I can see most of it however the pictures are one way or another out of wallop. In all probability not a big deal since basically no one uses it anymore but I am old school and still use it.
December 17, 2009 at 4:09 am |
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December 20, 2009 at 6:01 pm |
Found your site while searching Google for something else Lol Well, you have got a real cool post, indeed! I may come back and check it out again. Keep posting & merry XMAS!