Hi, I am starting a new venture into the dating business, having had my Adsense account removed from my main site that was a chat site. If you didnt know already, Google have banned Adsense from chat sites, so after some amazingly great advice from a DP member, I have purchased a great domain name, both .com and .net for a dating site and I am confident it will work. I have traffic on the chat site, lots of traffic and can send a lot of it to the dating site because the niche is very similar. Anyway, before I invest money into software, I have been looking around for a dating script that is the best! I need the following.. 1, Facebook connect. 2, Webcam chat room and instant messenger. 3, Options to disable features for free members and enable features for paid members. 4, Paypal gateway. 5, Possibility for members to send paid gifts to other members. 6, SEO friendly URLs. 7, Affiliate program built in. 8, Populated members (fake profiles) already installed. If you can point me into the right direction or know of dating software capable of these features, advice and help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Simon.
If you are going to use the Dating site to market to users on your Chat Web site why don't you try a "whitelabel" approach.
Thank you for the advice but having already sent a lot of traffic to affiliates with little return whilst helping them get rich, I would prefer to take 100% of the profit and really think I can get this to work and become popular in the dating niche.
If I could, I would be rich, but I havent got the brains to do it myself, so its a catch22, I need the site to make money but I need money to make the site!
Well... If your traffic is making them Rich you would be very well off. Usually dating sites will pay out between $2.50-$5 per free registration -or- up to $20 per upgraded member. While it is true they will make more money than you, they also carry the overhead (marketing, servers, staff, bandwidth, customer service etc). Building a dating site from scratch sounds profitable on paper...but in reality no one will join such a site if there are no members. And unless there are tons of LOCAL members noone will upgrade. Again... your better off with a "whitelabel" affiliate that will allow you to brand their site with your domain and scheme. Then collect revenue on a Revenue Share model (ie. every month they remain a paid member you get paid). This would be the easiest, most cost effective, and most profitable way for you to generate income off from your chat web site. Building from scratch is too risky... The time it takes to build the site and get established would cost you to lose money. Then once it's established you are years away from building a client base. Don't waste your time. Go with the quickest way to offer a product/service to your traffic and move on.
Have you tried the Cyber Match from iscripts.com. It's a good script to start an online dating website. They have the instant messenger, photos, payment gateway etc features but i am not sure about facebook connect. Though you can contact them. May be they could customize it for you.
As far as I know, Dating Pro (datingpro dot com) includes all these options. You can try their demo demoonline or by installing to your server. Profiles databases are also available (from 1000 to 20 000 users).
I have gone with eMeeting and AVChat and both are working out brilliantly. Both software are top quality and I love the chat, even running on RED5, no Wowza or FMS to pay each month! Take a look at the chat room if you like here http://www.lovetoflirt.com/inc/exe/videochat/ it is great, I think so anyway!