Click.Seek.Find,Date Caribbean Online

Barbados – It’s the weekend and you killing time online, can’t handle chat room or news groups, surf over to the rising cadre of Caribbean dating sites-Caribsingles.com, CaribCupid.com, cupidvibes.com, and jampersonals.com. They all offer free dating, meaning, no membership levels and attendant fees.

Caribsingles.com has singles primarily from Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Trinidad, Barbados and the United Kingston and have over 10,000 members. CupidVibes.com formerly vibesconnection.com seems to have captures a more Egyptian, Venezuelan, Moroccan, Saudi Arabian membership. CaribCupid.com and jampersonals.com seem pretty new.

NB: Online dating is big business. drawing about 4 million U.S. Internet users daily in June 2006 (and 25 million monthly), and they spend a daily average of nearly 17 minutes each on these sites. That adds up to a lot of page views – almost 4.5 billion per month (source: Comscore).

The two largest dating sites are Yahoo Personals and Match.com, respectively, with a combined 9.3 million monthly visitors. You can browse, but to truly connect you gotta pay-Match.com charges $30/month for the basic plan; Yahoo’s fee is $25/month. The recent trend though has been that a flurry of dating sites that fresh on the scene are open and free, making money from ads and affiliate programmes once traffic gets heavy.