Welcome to The Best of Online Dating, our round up of the online dating websites you do NOT want to miss.

If you start searching for an online dating site right now, you’ll likely get overwhelmed with the sheer number of new sites cropping up in every conceivable ‘niche’ market – only the other day I came across three different dating sites in the same day, one for tennis players, one for dog lovers, and another for tall people.  Amazing.  While we cannot deny that common interests will definitely feature in the foundation of any long term relationship (after all, you are going to be spending a lot of time with your partner, and you need something to share an interest in), the trouble with narrowing your search for singles to a narrow field like one of these is that you will naturally limit the number of potential people you could meet to a very small fraction of the single, available population in your area of the world.

And online dating works so well primarily because there are SO MANY people doing it your chances of meeting someone you really, really like are dramatically increased.

So online dating sites for small groups are not that great an idea.  Which is why WE RECOMMEND BIG DATING SITES rather than little ones, simply because of your odds of meeting one of the handful of people in the universe who you could happily share your life/bed/house/children with.

ANYWAY, enough about your odds, let’s get to the interesting part – which are the best dating sites?  Well we have spent the last 4 years regularly updating our hotlist, and we reckon we can steer you right to the top 10 dating websites in the UK.  Just follow that link and you will find our super-list of romantic sites to find love – we do not bother with the more light-hearted sites, sticking more closely to the ones that promise longer term relationships and possibly marriage.  So enjoy the ride, and may you deal with singleness once and for all this year…