Dating Service Reviews of The Top Dating Sites For Singles Age 30 Plus

Our Five Star Rating System for Ranking Online Dating Services Is Based On One Star for Each of the Following Parameters:

Because our emphasis is on helping singles above the age of thirty, we tend not to review sites that are more oriented or frequented by singles under the age of thirty, such as social networks like MySpace, etc. even though MySpace is considered by some to be a great place to meet singles.

1. Age 30+ singles related content - based on number of quality dating profiles found, with at least one photo, personal video or voice file, and evidence of active members age 30+ like recent postings, or recently logged in. Also useful, unique or innovative communication features like use of cell phone technology to search and communicate, plus cheerful and prompt customer service help, including how easy it is to cancel membership or get a refund. This is followed up by a search for customer complaints found in forums and others sites that list customer feedback.

2. Privacy/Safety - based on privacy of customer information and also reliability of anonymous e-mail forwarding, (Chat and Instant Messaging is not considered since we recommend not relying on chat or IM to find a mate. A consistent, weekly or even daily, careful, detailed profile search is best.) Another important consideration is how well a dating site handles abuse, and the ability of singles to block unwanted messages, or even the ability to block an unwanted or abusive person from even viewing one's dating profile.

3. Website Speed - based on how fast pages load and database search speed, also speed of anonymous e-mail forwarding. Actual comparative website traffic as measured by Hitbox, Quantcast and Alexa is taken into consideration in contrast to database size as reported by each dating site reviewed, however, it is our view that actual website traffic is a good indicator of active vs. passive user activity. So a database size is not as important as how much activity exists within that database of dating singles age 30+. Also, is the website easy to use, with feature-rich dating tools that are fairly intuitive to understand and use?

4. Search Selection - based on size and demographics of database, again emphasizing singles age 30+ in various regions of the English speaking countries like the USA, Canada, the UK, and Australia/New Zealand. Also, is there a healthy ratio of males and females, somewhere between 40/60 to 60/40 with 50/50 representing an exact balance. Bottom line, how likely are you to find quality online daters over the age of 30, or in the case of senior singles, how likely are you to find a date that is age 50+

5. Search Options – a ‘drill-down’ based on how detailed a search can be conducted and still get a good selection of singles dating profiles within the search parameters. (For example, “show profiles with photos only, single moms, age 35 to 40, Asian or Caucasian, 4-year college degree or higher, likes hockey, likes jazz, Christian religion, living within 100 miles of Chicago” is a pretty tough search for some dating services to perform and still show more than twenty five dating profiles.)

New dating service reviews for singles age 30+ are added weekly. However, a dating site must rank at least 4.5 stars to recieve a formal written dating service review. Otherwise our readers would have to wade through far too many words just to find the very best online dating services.

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Popular Dating Services

Match.com is #1. After a detailed review of the fourteen largest general dating services on the Internet our editors ranked Match.com the very best for dating above-age-30 singles - Not only did we find a greater number (59%) of singles age 30 to 49, we also found a greater number of singles with 4 year college and graduate degrees, which could explain the higher income levels of singles at Match.com and this can be extrapolated out to indicate a higher number of motivated, ambitious singles.

To top it off, Match.com offers one of the best guarantees you could ever ask for: At Match you are guaranteed to meet your match within your first 6 months membership or you get the next 6 months membership totally FREE! - more details

Yahoo! Personals is #2. Our reviewers and editors really like this dating site and think that you will really like it, too. Yahoo! Personals has grown rapidly, since around 1998, to over 11 million members. You are certain to find a very good selection of singles over age 30 at Yahoo! Personals. It is also popular among senior singles looking for friends or senior dating opportunities.

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Here you’ll find a fun online singles community with the excellent reputation and support of Yahoo! the worldwide portal and arguably one of the best sites on the Internet.- more details.- more details

True.com is #3. With over 10.5 million members this is a dating site to strongly consider for online dating success and maybe even ultimate dating safety, since true does a criminal background check on all potential members before they are allowed to join. They also screen out anyone married who shows up in USA, public records.

We do agree with True.com that communication is very important in building good relationships. True.com has a built-in email system, instant messaging; plus the convenience of all that live webcam chat in public and private chat rooms is a great feature. It can literally SAVE YOU MONEY by having a few virtual, cyberspace dates in a private, live webcam chat room before you decide to start dating each other in the real world. - more details

New dating service reviews for singles age 30+ are added weekly. However, a dating site must rank at least 4.5 stars to receive a formal written dating service review. Otherwise our readers would have to wade through far too many words just to find the very best online dating services.

MatchMaker is #4. A dating site with 8 million members to strongly consider for online dating success – FREE trial members can contact any other member, Paid OR free, VIA EMAIL.

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FriendFinder is #5. A dating site to strongly consider for online dating success, has state-of-the-art dating tools, a popular general dating site with 4.5 million members many of which (51%) are age 30 to 49 with 30% of all members in the age 50+ senior singles category.

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LavaLife is #6. A general dating site with 15 million members. Free basic membership with PAID members having more access and features

One thing we did not like is the choice to have “an intimate encounter” because it is not the emphasis of our dating service reviews to send singles to dating sites for sleazy flings, but rather for serious, quality dating relationships. This is easy to overcome, just by choosing “casual dating” or “serious dating” - no more details

AmericanSingles is #7. A general dating site with 7 million members. As the name implies, members are primarily in the USA, 78% of which are age 30 or older.

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Date.com is #8. A dating site with about 2 million members to consider for online dating by singles mostly in the USA. Date.com is owned by the same company as MatchMaker.com and has a membership comprised of roughly 71% singles over age 30.

Is 2 million members enough to choose from and still find a mate or even a date? We think so, but it depends on where you live, how far you are willing to travel and finally how picky you are. - no more details

Also consider SinglesNet as second choice to Date.com for dating singles over 30. Not Yet Rated and Reviewed

Age-gap Dating Services

Keep in mind that the focus of our site is to help singles age 30 to 80 find and date other singles age 30 to 80. With that in mind we have reviewed AgeMatch an Age Related Dating Service, and for your convenience we have followed it with a summary of other popular niche dating services that have a substantial membership of singles age 30+.

AgeMatch is #1. AgeMatch is #1 among age-gap, trans-generational dating sites. A site to strongly consider for online dating related to younger singles dating older singles and not having any hang ups with regard to age related issues.

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Senior Dating Services (Age 50+)

Is there any reason to join a senior dating site devoted exclusively to dating senior singles? Yes, of course, but keep in mind that even the largest of these sites below has less than 1 million members. Which is actually less than, or in some cases fairly comparable to, the age 50+ members of some of the Popular Dating Services reviewed above. Some senior singles just feel more comfortable belonging to a site that is exclusively for seniors without any of those "young wipper snappers" around to make them feel rushed or technically inferior. Customer service and interaction among members tends to be geared toward a much slower pace at exclusive senior dating services.

SeniorFriendFinder is #1. With over 400,000 members this is the most popular senior dating service for English speaking senior single primarily in the USA, Canada and the UK. This very active online senior community is sure to please even those senior singles that are just looking for a place to belong to share common interests, and are not necessarily “hot” on the trail of their next marriage partner. Although romance is certainly in the air at SeniorFriendFinder all be it ever so low key as it is.

We found the dating tools and search features easy-to-use even for the most inexperienced computer users. And talk about well thought out, sometimes it seems like the SeniorFriendFinder site knows what you want before you even ask for it...very intuitive user interface! - more details

PrimeSingles is #2. Prime Singles is #2. A site to strongly consider for online dating success, has state-of-the-art dating tools, a popular general senior dating site with about 300,000 members many of which (29%) are age 30 to 49 with 57% of all members in the age 50+ senior singles category.

Estimates: users age 30 to 49 = 29% | users age 50+ = 57% | men = 43% | women = 57% | have college degree = 38% | have graduate degree =12% | no children living at home = 86% | annual income $100K+ = 9% | annual income $60K to $100K = 14% | annual income $30K to $60K = 19% |

If there is a new dating technology for senior singles over fifty online, Prime Singles members have probably tried it and loved it.- more details

Also consider Senior People Meet or Single Seniors Meet as second choices for dating single seniors. Not Yet Rated and Reviewed.

Matchmaking Services (matching done by experts)

Moving beyond traditional online dating services where you are free to search through thousands of dating profiles; there exists a subset of dating sites called matchmaking services where the dating profile searches are performed by dating experts like psychologists who match you up with other singles based on an extensive personality survey. This type of service is either loved or loathed depending on how actively a single person wishes to be in choosing their online dating partners.

These three matchmaking services were reviewed on the basis of how likely you would find a serious dating relationship among the various marriage-minded, age 30+ singles that are also looking for their potential soul-mate. For certain you are likely to find singles with a great deal of patience, that's for sure! Matchmaking services require you to patiently fill out extensive, online personality surveys that can take up to three or four hours to complete. Then you must wait patiently for up to a month while the experts match you up based on all the personal data with which you supplied them.

PerfectMatch.com is #1. After a detailed review of the five largest matchmaking services on the Internet our editors ranked PerfectMatch.com the very best matchmaking service for dating singles above the age of 30, including senior singles over age 50. With over 15 million members this is a perfect matchmaking service for singles over age 30, including senior singles, to strongly consider if they want a dating site where matches are chosen for them by dating experts, after evaluation of a very detailed dating and personality questionnaire.

With PerfectMatch success stories resulting in about 100 marriages per day; it is worth marriage-minded singles at least trying a FREE basic membership. - more details

eHarmony.com is #2 With over 18 million members and a huge advertising budget eHarmony is probably the most well known matchmaking service on the Internet. If it were not for the numerous complaints about how long it takes eHarmony to evaluate the data from an extensive personality questionnaire for dating profiles and finally send singles some matches for them to contact, eHarmony would have been tied for 1st place.

Estimates: users age 30 to 49 = 47% | users age 50+ = 26% | men = 33% | women = 67% | have college degree = 46% | have graduate degree =16% | no children at living at home = 77% | annual income $100K+ = 24% | annual income $60K to $100K = 24% | annual income $30K to $60K = 32% |

And certainly one can find plenty of singles over the age of 30 here, provided the matchmakers interpret the personality data in such a way as to send some matches of singles over 30. Remember you do not choose your matches. Online daters are screened and chosen for you by dating experts. - more details

Chemistry.com is #3. A sister site to Match.com, owned by the same company, Chemistry has 11 million members and tends to be more popular among singles in their late teens and twenties.

Estimates: users age 30 to 49 = 41% | users age 50+ = 22% | men = 42% | women = 58% | have college degree = 46% | have graduate degree =14% | no children living at home = 84% | annual income $100K+ = 23% | annual income $60K to $100K = 24% | annual income $30K to $60K = 31% |

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Although with such a huge database from which to choose, the Chemistry dating experts are fairly likely to send you enough matches over age 30 to keep you busy. - no more details

Niche Dating Services

Disabled Dating4Disabled.com is #1 when it comes to online dating services for singles who are disabled! This disabled dating service is a supportive online community for disabled singles. - no more details at this time

Millionaire Match is #1. When it comes to online dating among busy, hardworking and successful professionals making over $150,000.00 annually, MillionaireMatch provides a reliable and convenient way to meet compatible singles who share common interests, goals, hobbies, entertainment and outlook on life. You do not have to be a millionaire to join and use all the innovative online dating features available at Millionaire Match.

Millionaire Match performs the vital online dating role of connecting quality singles who may not have the time or opportunities for finding dates using the traditional offline methods, yet they reconize that a sound relationship at home makes for more successes in the business arena. Seriously dating with marriage in mind is the focus of Millionaire Match. If it is your focus as well, read more details

Religious Dating Advice

For some excellent Christian dating advice, please visit these sites on Christian Dating and Reviews of Christian Dating Sites. These Christian sites cover this subject in greater detail than we have time for right now. For Seventh Day Adventists we recommend that you try Adventist Singles Connection.

For some excellent Jewish dating advice, please visit these sites on Jewish Dating and this Jewish Dating Service. These Jewish sites cover this subject in greater detail than we have time for right now.

For Catholic dating advice, please visit this excellent Catholic Dating site which covers the subject in greater detail than we have time for right now.

Single Parent Dating Services

Dating for singles with children can be quite a challenge! An online dating service can be a real life saver, allowing a single parent to find dating opportunities from the safety and convenience of their own home computer, usually after puting the kid(s) to bed.

Single Parents Mingle is #1. Among dating sites that specialize in bringing singles with children together, strongly consider trying Single Parents Mingle for online dating success. It has state-of-the-art dating tools, like an excellent matching system as well as an easy to use and fast profile searching system.

Single Parents Mingle is a great site for singles over the age of thirty who have a very time-constrained, hectic life but yet they still want to date and may even want to settle down and get married to a single person who has children just like they have, or get married to a single person who is up for the unique challenges of dating and marrying a single mom or dating and marrying a single dad. - more details

Also consider Single Parents Meet as second choice for dating single parents. Not Yet Rated and Reviewed.

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