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March 17, 2006

A New Dating Site?

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Mate1 DatingHave you ever heard about Mate1.com? I hadn’t until a couple of weeks ago. I was chatting with a reporter from The Wall Street Journal about the dating industry and how sex sites, in particular, have grown on the Net. He was the one to bring up Mate1. Never having heard of them, I took a look.

The landing page was simple – looks like a half-page ad more than anything else. The reporter was saying he was speaking with someone who said it was blowing up. I checked the Alexa ranking and it was under 2,000 – which seems to suggest it was getting major traffic. Then I went and checked the back links and found that there were barely any. To boot, they don’t even have an affiliate program to pay webmasters for sending them hits, like most big businesses do. Then, last weekend, I went out to dinner with a friend and he was mentioning that his cousin was involves with them. He says they’re legit. I’ll trust him on that – just because he’s a good guy. But it rings much like other companies, for example Sex Search, that sprang out of nowhere with tons of traffic and a full member database. I know where the traffic came from – adult webmasters. Porn. But the database or members with so many hot women? Let’s just say there’s plenty of reasons to mistrust new sites that seem to have giant openings.

Posted by cup1d666 at March 17, 2006 10:21 AM

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