Android Is Here !

We're please to announce the beta release of our Android dating client for ifreedating, packed with features.

The big news with our Android client is that using your smart phones built in GPS you can now find other ifreedating members no matter where you are. So, if your out on the town and fancy a date, fire up our new app, checkin and see who's about, near you right now!

More downtime experienced

we suffered prolonged downtime yesterday as a result of our hosting providers failures to managed their servers.

We are now actively engaged in searching for new hosting to mitigate further issues.

We apologise to all our clients.

On a happier note our Android dating client is coming along nicely.

If you would like an early alpha release for trialing, please register your interest at android@ifreedating.com

Android Client Coming Soon...

Yes folks. By now you must have heard that Android smart phones are becoming increasingly popular with more and more manufacturers releasing their new models sporting the powerful OS from Google so we are please to officially announce that an Android client for iFreeDating is well and truly under way. Early alpha/beta releases will be made available through iFreeDating.com for those wishing to take a pre-release test run before it goes to market. And of course, the client will be available at no cost. Its iFreeDating remember!

Profile Bug Fix

A bug that prevented new members from completing their profiles has been detected and fixed. Appologies to our recent new members who couldnt complete their profiles. All is well now.

exciting site updates

Well, we're ticking along nicely now with some more cosmetic changes to our free dating main page and profiles. We've also added twitter buttons to allow you to easily follow members tweets. Another change sees chat now embeded into the page as opposed to a new window.

Enjoy!

ifreedaing.com team

About iFreeDating, the psychology behind it and how to make money with google adsense (...continued)

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By far the biggest and what generates the most internet traffic is porn. No surprises here. It appeals to our most basic need, to reproduce. We cant help it. We feel hungry, we need to eat. Here I thought is an area that would, by default, ensure some level of interest and appeal to both sexes, cross all borders and professions. Basically everyone. Obviously, a small fish like me could not just jump in and create the worlds best porn site from my basement and compete with the big boys, no pun intended, so I decided upon the softer side of porn, dating or rather, online personals. But even in this field there are plenty of players. How to compete with what's already out there? How do you carve out a niche for yourself on an already over populated arena? You take your key ingredient and add a twist. In my case I took the topic of dating and to set me aside from the competition I set out to create a free dating website. Goobang was born. It wasn't too long before I had some basic functionality resembling a dating website and decided that I needed a more descriptive website name, Goobang doesn't relay anything about the subject matter. If its not obvious to the visitor it certainly wont be obvious to a search engine. The difficulty here is coming up with something unique and that still exists as a domain name. How lucky was I in securing a domain name that was short and descriptive, IFREEDATING.COM! Not only does this tell you instantly what the site is all about but it also contains key search words that people using search engines such as Google would use when searching for dating websites. Having a good domain name is just part ofthe battle when you are looking at how to get good google rankings. You also need relevant content containing keywords that are likely to appear in peoples search queries. One good thing about creating a free dating website like ifreedating is that it is user driven, in other words the content is provided by and generated by the users. I can just sit back, relatively speaking, and watch the website grow. The hope is that by careful design and using the best search engine optimization techniques, or SEO techniques, to promote the website it will achieve decent Google rankings which in turn will drive visitors to my site. IFreedating was in rapid development and its membership growing daily with men and women deciding to sign up for free dating. More and more of my time was being taken up by the site and so it was about time it started to pay for itself. If you want to make money from a website one of the simplest things you can do is sign up for Google Adsense. Using Google adsense to make money is easy to do and with a little know how you will learn quickly on how to make money with google adsense. I've already touched on most of these centering around SEO. After all, no matter how good your website looks, no one is going to click those ads unless you now how to drive traffic to your website. Another point to keep in mind is where to place Google Adsense in your pages. This depends on the page design itself, for example, ifreedatings pages tend to be narrow and can be lengthy. I choose tower ads since they will still be partly visible as the user reads or scrolls up and down the page. To see an example of a tower ad on ifreedating view my profile. So, there you go, there are some of the ingredients on creating a website to get rich, well, generate some revenue at least.

About iFreeDating, the psychology behind it and how to make money with google adsense (part one)

ifreedating is free dating, 100% free dating. Simple, and fact. No charges. Ever. ifreedating.com offers free services on a level with other dating sites that charge you for membership. Some so called free dating sites are not truly 100% free dating. They may allow you free sign up and to browse profiles but when you want to make contact they will sting you for a subscription or insist you purchase credits. This normally is the case for the guys. Women get to use the full site for free whilst the men need to pay to make contact with women they desire. There is a reason for this. To encourage guys to part with hard earned cash when they find a woman they'd like to make contact with and, sadly, men are suckers and easy targets. When your'e hungry, you gotta eat, right? ifreedating's features, including email, chat, instant messaging, video profiles, user comments and much much more and are free to both men and woman alike. You can even add twitter updates to give your profile a more real time feel. If you want truly free dating, international free dating then ifreedating provides the best dating website around today.

ifreedating started as Goobang back in Feb 2006. The original inspiration for making a dating website was initially as a means to further develop my web and java development skills, a place to try out new technologies and to showcase my developer/design skills. But why create a free dating website? Well, I wanted to create a site that would test my code and design thoroughly which meant creating a site that would attract a lot of visitors which inturn meant the site had to provide content that appealed to the majority, men, women, young and old. But what? What appeals to 99% of web surfers. Its going to be what appeals to us as human beings the most. What are the things, as humans we cannot help but act upon? Our natural urges, a means to our survival. I narrowed this down to four categories.

Relationships and sex

Food

Power, money and success

competition

These four key ingredients ensure our survival. Food gives us energy and strength enabling us to compete and hopefully win and succeed giving us power and success (money and position) which ensures us a good mate to pass on our genes ensuring our own personal survival through our offspring. This, ladies and gentlemen is meaning of life. Its not 42, its simply our selfish need to ensure our own survival. It is the very reason why religion came about. We cannot bare the thought that we will one day cease to be so religion created an afterlife. Churches control millions of people and billions of dollars world wide by using our fear of death by offering us salvation from the fear of non-existence. But I digress somewhat. How do the four basic human desires listed above translate into web topics. Very simply.

Porn (many categories of greater and lessor degrees)

Dieting, basically self image so we could include cosmetics and medicines under this category

Making easy money, e.g. gambling, get rich schemes etc. Money equals power and position.

Online gaming. A recreational pursuit but also a means of displaying your strength against an opponent.