Date.com Polls and Blog Widgets

December 5th, 2007 · 5 Comments

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Date.com has implemented an exit survey powered by Upsellit. They are a previous client, but I never heard about these new items on the website.

On their quizzes page they have “Cool stuff to stick on your blog”, including a quiz and a hot or not calculator. I like how you have to take the quiz and then you are provided with the code for your blog. Maybe Meir can tell us more about this.

I can’t believe I only scored 45%, that’s pretty sad given the amount of time I spend on dating sites, updating my profile, etc.

45%Take the quiz! Try Personals at Date.com

This is so much cooler than the Mac Dashboard widget that Match created a few years ago. Never worked for me and looks like it’s dead in the water. Not that I should be surprised that Match would try something, then leave it hanging for years.
Besides the fact that it reaffirmed that I am indeed a stud (nothing could be farther from the truth), The Hot or Not quiz was pretty lame. Questions were neither interesting, evocative or particularly fun.
Take the quiz! Try Dating Site at Date.com
OkCupid copywriting is some of the best in the casual dating business, dating site editors take note.

We’ll see how many blogs embed the quizzes. Who wants to guess how popular they are?

5 responses so far ↓

1 Ben (Check me out!) // Dec 6, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Date.com badge looks suspiciously like Matt’s (from justsayhi.com formerly mingle2.com) SEO techniques. http://www.justsayhi.com/bb
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2 Ben (Check me out!) // Dec 6, 2007 at 4:35 pm
61%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?San Diego Dating
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3 meir (Check me out!) // Dec 6, 2007 at 10:45 pm
This is something new that we launched, we’re trying to bring some fun back to online dating. Most sites out there are boring and two dimentional… Log into site, do search, send Wink, log off…repeat

btw - Dave, you are a stud!!!
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4 Jim (Check me out!) // Dec 7, 2007 at 10:21 am
Dave do you work with Date.com? It looks like you are trying to help them rank for personals and dating site with your anchor text which you don’t do on your other posts …
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5 David Evans (Check me out!) // Dec 7, 2007 at 10:51 am
Jim, I have worked with Date, and many other companies I mention on the blog, and am usually quite good about disclosing relationships.

What anchor text are you talking about? The text below the widgets is part of the widget itself, I didn’t add it. I would think the whole purpose of the widget is to help rank for popularity via many blog posts.
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