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Lazy Blogging Leads to Poor Link Rank

At the end of January, according to PubSub, this blog was ranked 11,723. I didn’t post most of the week of iDate, and my rank fell to a low of 94,000. Then, for some reason, it started climbing again. Perhaps it was because it went down sporadically for a few...

Date.com Buys Matchmaker

Matchmaker, the original online dating site, has been purchased by Date.com. Astute followers of the online dating market know of Matchmaker’s storied history, from it’s BBS origins in the early 1980 to the February 2005 sale of Lycos, parent of...

International Marriage Broker Regulation Act Passed

From Rich Gosse, founder of the International Association of Dating Websites: It is my sad duty to inform you that the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act (IMBRA) was enacted by Congress and signed into law. It will go into effect on April 1, 2006. This law...