DateHookup.com Review
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.
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May 15th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
DH baby!
October 16th, 2008 at 6:39 am
This site sucks………Dustin is a complete jerk. He is letting users with fake profiles and evil agendas running the site. Evil people know glitches in the system and get great people deleted. I would avoid this sit like the plague…..
November 1st, 2008 at 7:47 am
It can be an ok site..but ever since the owner has let a very violent offender run rampid in there things have gotten really out of hand…
you see a lot of folks claiming too be in love with someone..then the next day they are hooked up with the guy that they was sleeping with behind the guys back, that they claimed too be in love with the first time…
there are a lot of fake profiles on there…along with married folks looking for something on the side…
and the owners sister is the moderator…wich is a bad thing cause she is just a child and has no clue on how too use common sense
November 2nd, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Datehookup.com is not a safe site i have been on this site off and on it has not changed. i first came on this site back in 2006. i deleted my profile in the summer of 2007.
Due to dustin allowing fake profiles and white supremacist, to create profiles to harass me and other members. i deleted my profile along with another member. the reason why i deleted my profile was because of the non caring of the site owner and customer support.
when ever i complained to them about the fake profiles taking over the site i never received any replies. dustin also allows some of the datehookup origional members to bully and harass some of the new members,
i was recently on this site, dustin amediately deleted both me and another member because of our support of barack obama. there are alot of obama bashing threads in current events. dustin allows this to go on.
whenever there is a MCcain thread, dustin will delete the thread.
this site is not SAFE PERIOD, dustin is only interested in making money and sponsers off his site.