We are pleased to announce the Datepad Attraction in Action Matching System.

After an exhaustive search for some of the best relationship experts in the country we have managed to put together what we believe is the most accurate matching system available today.

Here are some areas some key areas we focused on while building our system.

1. It had to work! This might sound silly but we tested our system extensively on real couples, some dating for only months, others had been married for decades and everyone in between. I can say from my own experience, when my wife and I completed the matching system it said we were a great match we scored 84%, (Thank goodness) the interesting part was the areas where we traditionally have issues in our relationship came up in our results. Not only does this work well with those of you looking for that special someone but it also helps those who are in committed relationships understand their partner just a little better.
2. We wanted our survey to be as short as possible. No one likes to stare at a screen for hours answering questions, it reminds us of High School and College. Our competitors average between 75 and 100 questions, this didn’t make sense to us as in most cases the questions where repeated or they asked which type of music you like?? I can honestly say I have rarely dated anyone with similar musical taste and it has never really mattered! 25 questions is all you have to answer, short but more importantly incredibly effective.
3. Instant results. Instead of waiting for a system to email you matches, our system gives you instant results with every users profile you view. On top of this there is a detailed list explaining where you will succeed and areas where you might struggle. The Datepad Attraction in Action Matching System isn’t here to tell you whom to date we simply want to give you enough info for you to make an informed decision. Let’s face it we have all had partners in the past with major flaws that we were able to work around, as the saying goes “love knows no boundaries.”
4. A personality assessment. It was important for us to give you an overview of your personality, a way to show that our system is doing more than just matching you with others. Most users are quite shocked how accurate the assessment is of their personality.
5. It had to look great. With everything we develop at Datepad it had to look great and be user friendly. One of the most frequent compliments we get at Datepad is how clean and fresh our site is, our survey fits into the site beautifully.

We truly believe we have hit the mark with this new Matching System and hope you agree and can find that special someone with it!

Thanks from all of us at Datepad!

We have another review and this time it’s one of our competitors, well kind of……there is one huge difference, it costs money and lots of it!

eHarmony, without a doubt, is probably the most nationally recognized online dating program there is, due to their massive television campaigns. They attempted to set themselves apart from the rest of the online dating sites by creating an algorithm that is based on scientific data about successful relationships or so they say. First you complete a massive personality profile, and based on your answers, they match you up with compatible people. When we say massive it’s nearly 100 questions and takes the average user 45 minutes to complete.

If a dating site is truly based on creating relationships, not just one-night stands, then requiring a personality profile might just help keep those on the prowl for a one night stand to another site. There’s nothing wrong with people looking for sex, but each dating site has their own goals, and for eHarmony, solid connections was theirs, not just sexual encounters. eHarmony is an anomaly in the dating world, in that most of their users are women, whereas most dating sites have more men than women.

Once you’ve completed the long personality profile when signing up to eHarmony, you begin receiving matches based on their personality algorithm. But, you don’t have the ability to contact your matches right away. First, you need to answer more questions! The questions are 5 questions in the following categories: personality, relationship, or character. Next, you submit a list of the qualities that you must have in a partner and the qualities that you must not have in a partner. Lastly, each of you sends 3 open-ended questions that each other must answer, in order for you to be able to communicate with each other. Are you confused yet? At any point during this questionnaire process, either person may end the match for any reason. But, if you each pass all of the questions, you can communicate with each other. This is of course if you have both now paid their rather hefty monthly subscription fee!

Keep in mind a paid member cannot communicate with a non-paying member, no matter how compatible they are.

All in all, eHarmony is a successful dating site and given their TV marketing presence they are growing. We believe that there is a better way to find that special someone. Not only is Datepad 100% free we have just launched the datepad attraction in action survey system.

We are proud to announce another milestone 2,000 active members! You have to love exponential growth and at Datepad we’re loving this upward trend!

Our first 1,000 members took a little over months and our climb to the next 1,000 active members has taken less than 30 days!

We look forward to our next update which will be 5,000 members.

To continue with our theme of reviewing other competitors in the free online dating niche, Datepad took the time to review OKCupid.com. Datepad believes that by showing you everything that our biggest competitors have to offer, you can make up your own mind as to why Datepad is the best choice. Today’s competitor review is a dating site called OKCupid.com. OKCupid has a neat clean design and a bold logo. Next to their name is the logo of a glass beaker, presumably filled with some sort of love concoction. The site features a lot of calm colors, including blue, purple, white, and black. Now for the good stuff, here are a few things that we here at Datepad like about OKCupid, as well as a few things that we think they could have fixed.

Pros

1. The site is a lot older than Datepad, so it is much more established with a plethora of questions, answers, users, photos, and especially quizzes.
2. The site offers support for multiple languages, venturing away from just the English speaking daters.
3. The homepage is short and to the point, converting you into a member very quickly.
4. The company is well staffed, and has a very informative about page.
5. The site has a very vibrant and active forum.

Cons

1. You are not allowed to see the entire site or use all of the features until you have signed up as a member.
2. There is a lot of text in the footer of the site that is white on a light blue background, making it very hard to read depending on how bright your monitor is.
3. Once you have signed up and started looking at other people’s profiles, you will notice that they can be extremely cluttered and somewhat “Myspace like.”

In conclusion, OKCupid is an exceptionally nice free online dating competitor of Datepad, and in our opinion, the second best one out of all of them in existance. They are working hard to grow, much like we are, and they will prove to be a worthy adversary on our goal of building the internet’s largest free online dating community.

Datepad is proud to announce that we have recently reached a new milestone. We have kept our promise of bringing the community the best free online dating articles and the ultimate free online dating site, and our hard work is paying off.

It took over two whole months to reach our first milestone of 500 members, which is quite a feat for a new competitor in this niche. However, Datepad toppled the 1000 member milestone in under a month this time.

The snowball is starting to roll, keep following us as we journey to become the internet’s best free online dating service. Happy Dating!

With popularity brings spammers for any internet startup company.  Spammers have automated everything on big social networks like Myspace because the developers are too busy lining their pockets from  advertising dollars.  Unlike them, we at Datepad are all about bringing the community the best possible site.   With that being said, we have had a few spammers try to abuse our  website, and they have had their accounts permanently terminated.

The staff at Datepad have implemented many features that will thwart  spammers.  Due to the nature of the security fixes, we cannot tell you  what they are, but they are working behind the scenes so you can avoid having a mailbox that is full of spam.

Another major component or getting rid of spammers on Datepad is through  our community.  We have a feature that allows you to report every spam  message that you receive, which will be forwarded directly to one of our  Datepad staff members who will asses the request and remove the spammer at the click of a button.  We hate spam as much as you  do, so we recommend that you report any unsolicited private message you  receive from a spammer.  In addition make sure that you never give out your personal  details or your passwords to anyone that you do not trust.

Unlike most community sites, Datepad has a team of 3+ people  checking the backend of the site on a daily basis to ensure spammers are  terminated before they get out of control.  This is one of the big  things that our competitors are missing, and by reading a lot of their  blogs and forum posts, they are slowly killing their own websites.  The  power is in the people, and that is why Datepad strives to make your  experience in online dating the best it can be.

At the end of the day, we have a ton of security features in place to  lock down the majority of spammers, but as a community we rely on you to  report any suspicious activity that you may see for the benefit of  everyone else.  Happy Dating!

We here at Datepad want to provide the world’s best free online dating service, but we know as well as you do that we are not the only website in our industry. We believe that by showing you everything our biggest competitors have to offer, you can make up your own mind as to why Datepad is the best choice.

With that being said, here is our first dating site blog review.

The first online dating site that I am going to be reviewing is called DateHookup.com. Datehookup is an older online dating site, having been launched way back in July 2002. Since the site is a lot older than most of the other websites in this industry, it has had a lot of time to rank well in search engines and receives a lot of visitors every month.

The site offers all the features you would expect from a free online dating site, you can get your own profile, there are forums, as well as date ideas. They tote that they are better than everyone else, but let us look into their claim and see if they can stand the test of time.

On their About page, tthey have a detailed list of everything that DateHookup offers, but one thing I found a bit unprofessional was that while listing the best features that their website has, the bottom one says, “Other stuff I can’t remember.” If the developers of the website do not even know what their website does, how is anyone else supposed to?

Aside from that, the site looks well established. The site is monetized with a strip of Adsense ads on the right side. This is an excellent way for them to make money while not annoying the users of the site. The majority of free online dating users would prefer a free site that has advertisements rather than having to pay a monthly fee. Free is the way of the future for online dating.

A very prominent feature on DateHookup is the forums, with some of the bigger categories reaching 7000 threads! Dating forums are generally the hardest part of a site to grow, and it looks like they have that on lockdown. That is due to many years of promotion and slow exponential growth, and they are now reaping all the search engine traffic from it. It will take a while before Datepad has a forum that is that active, but all in good time. Congratulations on that DateHookup!

What do you guys think about DateHookup? Leave your feedback or any experience you have had with DateHookup.com in the comments below to have your say! After a little research, it seems that there have been quite a few complaints that you can read about here.

Ever since our public launch on March 1st, the Datepad team has been hammering nonstop with new features, new articles, new viral marketing strategies, and much more.  It looks like that hard work has been paying off as we have just had our 500th member join the site yesterday.  There are many dating startups that launch on the web every month, but few have the potential to survive long term and really grow into something.  Luckily for us, Datepad is one of those diamonds in the rough.

We will now be striving to reach the 1000 member landmark, and at the rate that Datepad has been growing I do not think that it will take very long.

To our success, and to you finding your soulmate through the internet’s first social dating website - cheers!

The winner of the 16GB iPod Touch is Bingwui Ng from Malaysia!

You can see his blog entry here.

Congratulations Bingwui, and Datepad wishes to thank everyone that entered our blog contest!

On Sunday April 20th Datepad.com lost one of its greatest assets. Dave was the driving force behind our vision and direction. While we struggle to deal with the loss, our team is now more than ever bound and determined to make Datepad.com the success Dave was so excited to achieve. We wish his wife, children and his family all of the best.

Dave, we miss you!

A visitation will be held at Thompson Funeral Home:

7-9pm Thursday April 24th 2008
530 Industrial Pkwy. South
Aurora, ON
(905)727-5421

A service will be held in Dave’s honour at:

Dinardo’s
400 Industrial Pkwy. South
Aurora, ON L4G 6W7
(905) 841-3737

Friday April 25th 2008 @ 1pm - 5pm

Reception to follow

The Dave Nichol Entrepreneur Foundation

Donations can be made to The Dave Nichol Entrepreneur Foundation acceptable at Dinardo’s.