Reviewed On: 5/1/2008

Price/Period: $24.99/30 days



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Reviewed by Cupids Reviews Staff

A site like Ethiopian Personals makes for a simple review. It’s well laid out and works easily under the command of your mouse. They've redesigned it since we first visited, but most changes are minor and don't really affect how you use the site. They haven't lost any of the site's simplicity, but, then again, they haven't added any new services to the ones they've always offered. Let's go through what you get.

Any new visitor to EthiopianPersonals.com has to go through the profile creation process. Most sites ask a few basic questions to let you in, but this dating site goes out of its way to find out more. They even have a large extended answer section to fill out tons of different details. Why should you care? Details are what attract people, after all, so do your best to take advantage of the opportunity that the site provides.

"A great thing about Ethiopian Personals is the amount that they’ll let you do as a free member."

One of the regrettable changes to the interface since their site redesign is that free searches are now limited to entire countries and province or state. If you want localized search results, you're going to have to upgrade your membership to get them. That makes it tough to judge how many potential matches are living in your local area.

A great thing about Ethiopian Personals is the amount that they’ll let you do as a free member. You can send signs of interest to other members and receive emails and instant messages from paying subscribers. You can reply free to instant messages, and you can reply once to an email without paying. If you want to be able to send more than one email reply per day, you need to sign up for the monthly membership plan.

One thing that's lacking from the site is any sense of an online community. There are no message boards, group chat rooms or blogs. Generally, on a niche dating site, you might expect some effort to encourage conversation and discussion among more than just individual members one-on-one. This site apparently doesn't see that as important.

Nevertheless, the biggest issue for the site is that it's attracting limited visitors to its pages. Perhaps its target market is just too narrow, or maybe it's just having a difficult time finding ways to globally promote itself to such a specific group of people. I think people would be encouraged to join if they could verify how many active members live in the area around their homes before signing up to a premium membership.

Ethiopian Personals might become a stronger site if it could attract more members by adding more services and free local searches.

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