Reviews of Matchmakers Exclusive to aLoveLinksPlus

WHAT WE FOUND: A well-designed service that fulfills a great need on the Internet, meeting people that share your faith. Start by registering yourself, answering only the questions that you want to answer. Once you receive your password, you are ready to start meeting someone like you! With your beliefs and values. Just wait a day until your profile is approved to send messages. Messages are automatically forwarded, anonymously, through the Big Church email system, so your privacy is protected until you give out personal information yourself. Members ads must be approved before being searchable and follow the guidelines that Big Church has set out. Use the Hot List to save the profiles of those you are interested in becoming friends with. You’ll like this service and the people that are waiting to meet you. This is much more than just a singles site.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free basic memberships, easy contact, many religious affiliations included. Include your picture if you want.

WHAT WE FOUND: Black Planet Love is one part of the larger Black Planet community site. (3 distinct areas, “Community”, “Love” and “Jobs”.) At Black Planet you’ll have access to the community, jobs and love sections included with your free membership. Start your visit with the guest preview that is a 25 page self-guided tour of all the services and features available to members. Once you have seen 25 pages, or any time before, you must join as a free member. The Black Planet Love service allows you to become a free member and post your own profile. To make contact you’ll need to become a subscriber, but free members can reply to messages and send crushes (a form of anonymous short message). The search feature for a compatible match can be as quick or comprehensive as the options you select to search with. Additional features include “Instant Love” chat with other online members, weekly matches emailed to you, topical news, plenty of forums, chat rooms and contests to keep you busy. This is one of the best and comprehensive community services we’ve ever reviewed. You’ll like it too. For subscribers there is even a two week money back guarantee that you’ll like BlackPlanet, so joining is a no-risk option.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Large community section with a variety of public and private clubs, chat rooms, games, personal page about yourself, voice dating. Free to reply to messages, become a subscriber to initiate contact. Plenty of activities at this service.

WHAT WE FOUND: Bookofmatches is a full-featured free dating service that allows you to have fun as you search online for new friends or that special someone. Joining is fast and the profile is comprehensive and easily completed. We like the “My Picture/Rate Me” feature that allows you to include up to 3 pictures and have them rated by other members. Definitely a great way to introduce yourself is through the “Sizzle/Fizzle” feature. The “Who’s On” allows you to start browsing the profiles by current visitors, which is nice and you also have the very fast search to use on your journey in singleness. We also found the members slideshow, the horoscope compatibility checker and the music selection to play as you visit a nice change from the ordinary. Overall, Bookofmatches is easy to use and easy to navigate. You’ll have fun here!

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free membership includes all features including sending and replying to messages. Straight and same sex personals available.

WHAT WE FOUND: candydates offers you a full access one week free trial period when you post your profile here. To find out what’s inside, which is where you’ll need to start, by posting your profile using the free express sign-up. It’ll only take a few minutes, at most, and you’ll have fun reading some of the questions, such as this one: Do you follow fashion? (Answer from the following) I am a GAP person (Yes/No); I am a Banana Republic person (Y/N); I want to be taken seriously, I always dress to impress (Y/N); Who cares about fashion? (Y/N); Fashion follows me (Y/N); and, Less is more (Y/N). This service aims for the urbanites and you’ll find more hip, single professionals that at many other services with more than 80% of members posting pictures with their profiles. The perfect match system is what makes candydates special: based on your answers to the profile questionnaire, you are emailed up to 5 matches twice a week out of which you will pick 2 as a perfect match, 7 matches if you are deluxe member and you get to pick 4 of them. You can make contact with whoever you have picked if they have also picked you. That’s called a perfect match. Once your free trial ends, you should join for deluxe membership and keep the matches coming. A Feature available to deluxe members also include being able to make contact with someone that hasn’t picked you (a less than perfect match), which is not included with the free membership. There is even a money back guarantee if you don’t receive a match you like during your first month.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: 7 day full access free trial, photo personals. Straight and same sex personals available.

WHAT WE FOUND: Are you looking for someone that shares your values and commitments? This is the singles service for you! And Catholic Singles is Always Free to people 60 and over! How's that for incentive to go and take a look? Pretty good, I know. But the best is to come! When you sign-up and log-in, you can start really using the features to your benefit. Check you mail, browse or search for new members, catch up on the latest Catholic News and even join the chats at the 3-D Palace! Even check the Events listings for something coming to your area, or email them with your own local event.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Great free trials, personals ads can include pictures. Chats, onsite email and more. Local events, links page, newsletter. This service is for straight relationships only.