Guys like, girls love
I set out to find some patterns in the words people choose in their online dating profiles. The main interesting pattern I found was that women use the word "love" over "like" by a ratio of about 3 to 2. Guys use the word "like" over "love" by a ratio of about 4 to 3. H
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Top 10 Mistakes in Online Dating Profiles
I've told you plenty about what you should do with your online dating profile; but here's some don'ts. These mostly apply to the guys, but ladies, watch out for some of this stuff, too. Talking About Yourself Too Much: It's your online dating profile, so it stands t
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How to write an online dating profile
Writing an online dating profile is the most daunting part of online dating; but there's little else so critical to your success. Since it is such a challenge, it's no surpise that many profiles are clearly given very little thought - either by being incredibly short, n
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Conversation Nuggets in Online Dating
There's one very simple piece of advice you can follow to improve your online dating profile, and profile photos, and online dating messages tremendously: inject all of them with as many conversation nuggets as you possibly can. What is a conversation nugget? Simply
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Get
Here's a video demonstrating the "Who's Viewed Me" Shuffle, a Match.com searching technique that will get women to wink at you, thus conserving your resources and getting her to express interest in you. This puts you in a more favorable position when writing that first
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What Online Daters Can Learn from Marketers
Unless you live completely off the grid (though you probably wouldn't be on this website), you probably buy things at one point or another. Whether you like it or not, your purchases are influenced by marketers. Someone identified you as a potential customer, developed
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What online dating questions are okay to not answer?
I came across something I hadn't seen before: a woman's profile who left her "body type" blank. Nuh uh, I said - you have to answer that one for me to consider you! Of course, I know enough about looking out for the angles, that it's hard to fool me when it comes
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Top 5 Online Dating Profile Clichés
If you read enough online dating profiles, you'll start to see a pattern. While clichés may indicate something you may want to speak of creatively when writing your online dating profile, they certainly aren't something you want to cut-and-paste, as it seems some onlin
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Choosing an online dating screenname
Personally, I don't pay a great deal of attention to a screenname on an online profile, but according to one study choosing the right screenname is important. Turns out that names like "fun2bewith" or "imsweet" tended to rank highly. But watch out, guys - don't get too
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Writing the
There are few prospects more daunting than summing yourself up in a few hundred words on an online dating profile. Look around at enough women's profiles, and you're sure to see something to the effect of "it's so hard to write about myself" time and time again. Some wo
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Before you create an online dating profile
There are two important tips to follow before you begin your Match.com profile, or any online dating profile. Or hell, before you date at all: Get your shit together. You've heard it a million times, "you have to love yourself before you can love someone else," and
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