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May 02, 2003
Yahoo Personals : research / review / comments : Yahoo! Personals
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Deep research of Yahoo! Personals web services provided by Yahoo! Inc. This article is to become a public resource for anybody willing to share their comments and opinions. As far as Yahoo Personals is a huge dating services provider it might be interesting to know all aspects of its operation. Anyone willing to say a few words about Yahoo! Personals is free to comment.
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About Yahoo! Inc. and Yahoo! Personals
Power of The Leader
Yahoo! Inc. is known for operating a huge, web’s most popular link directory. They are one of the biggest portals in the world and of course they have stable traffic flow of new and experienced Internet users. Yahoo! is working on providing full service for their visitors; in fact you could find almost anything you need in Internet right among Yahoo! services. Yahoo! Personals is one of their services and possibly one of their main priorities. For example, if you track how many time they put Personals banner on their front page as a main ad, you would understand that none of their services - Yahoo! Games, or Yahoo! Finance… or whatever else doesn’t ever beat that http://personals.yahoo.com page. With such a huge promotion power they could beat anyone on dating services market, but Yahoo! Inc. works on even more aggressive and global advertising campaign – you would likely see them among first or more often THE FIRST in all major and small Pay-Per-Click search engines, advertising agencies, on affiliate sites and even Google AdWords. You meet Yahoo! Personals everywhere and anywhere. This is a power of money and possibly something else… let’s read further.
Services Review
You may happen to search for, say, “Free Personals” and find personals.yahoo.com, but you should mix things up – Yahoo! Personals IS NOT FREE. Period.
They are nothing different from most other paid services – you may “Post a Free Personals Ad” but you will have to pay for monthly membership to contact other members. This is a widely used structure and many sites offer similar service. So, nothing interesting here.
Additionally they have explanatory tour for newcomers and options to post voice and/or video message to you profile. Another small advantage is that members can post up tp 5 photos to their profile. It is all fine, but nothing really different or unique. There are agencies now that can offer you video/voice messengers, up to 10 photos for upload, chat, and sometimes even instant messengers.
So what's so cool in Yahoo! Personals? Why they are so attractive? The answer is absolutely obvious - they are HUGE. It is one of the largest online dating services ever, with all pros and cons of this fact. And they just keep growing and growing every day - nothing stops them from getting bigger and, well, nothing should. This is where we say - Well Done Yahoo!
Internet Community about Yahoo! Personals
LoveCompass Plays Objectiveness
It would be incorrect to share our own opinion only, especially keeping in mind the fact that LoveCompass Online Personals & Dating Services Network is a direct Yahoo! competitor in personals market. This why we decided to add comments of other dating companies, Yahoo! Personals affiliates, and individual reviews. You be the judge.
Dating Sites Reviews Quotes
aLoveLinksPlus.com - “…comprehensive communications system for single people in America and Canada. One drawback to their online personals is membership with Yahoo's main services is mandatory. If you want to place your free profile, you have to be a Yahoo member. Not that it's entirely a bad thing, they do offer a lot of services and features that you could make very good use of, but it does add a couple off steps if all you want to do is place your profile online.”
aLoveLinksPlus.com - “…Yahoo Personals is a premium service, membership is required to send and reply to messages, but you'll be part of one of the largest online dating services once you've joined and be able to take advantage of a number of features that are only available to subscribed members. You can search for other members without subscribing, so you can see if it would be worthwhile for you to join to contact singles in your area before you pay.”
Free-Personals-Ads.com – “Yahoo personals is no longer a totally free personals site. You now have to pay to reply to ads, but you can join for free, and there are a good number of photo personals.”
Free-Personals-Ads.com – “…One thing yahoo personals used to be bad about - spam. When yahoo was totally free, people would join and send messages to get you to visit other sites, or just to get your email address. If you are ever contacted and the personal profile ad tells you to go to another site for more pics, it is probably just spam.”
DateSeeker.net - “…A secure, inexpensive and simple to use dating site with millions of members from all over the world - making it easy to meet somebody that lives near you.”
DateSeeker.net - “…The only limitations free members have at Yahoo Personals is not being able to initiate contact with members or use instant messenger. Other than that they can freely browse and view ads, reply to messages received and have full use of the advanced search and matching tool.”
…to be continued.
Posted by LC at May 2, 2003 12:18 PM
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