Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the monthly archives:
This article is part of a series concerned with building, launching, maintaining and growing dating sites.
Found an article about figuring out the optimal startup burn rate.
New technical term of the week: Dogpiling.
If you are planning, running or about to launch a dating site there are several new initiatives that directly affect your ability to cost-effectively [...]
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Good beginner SEO tips for those of you who don’t feel like shelling out thousands of dollars to questionable SEO “experts.” Provided by Matt Cutts, the Google search guru who is often the front line when it comes to interfacing with webmasters.
There are many websites and books that cover the majority of SEO/SEM strategies and [...]
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According to TechCrunch, Google has launched an affiliate ad network. What will this mean for Commission Junction as well as small affiliate networks? Also mentioned, the beta of Google’s Pay-Per-Action service.
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According to SFGate, Today is the deadline for any business that accepts credit cards over the Internet to meet new security standards for their Web sites.
The new rule comes from the big credit card brands – Visa, MasterCard Worldwide, American Express, Discover Financial Services and JCB International – and is intended to protect credit card [...]
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I created a room at Friendfeed called Onlinedatinginsider. Friendfeed is where you go to check on what your friends and colleagues are up to. The new room feature let’s you link to all sorts of sources, blogs, Flickr, music sites, etc.
You can either visit http://friendfeed.com/rooms/onlinedatinginsider
In your web browser or subscribe via your RSS newsreader.
I imported [...]
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Match.com will start advertising to affluent singles.
The new Honesty Online blog.
I grow weary of signing up for new dating sites. Does anyone actually think to ask if their questions are any good? Why don’t dating sites link to popular photo-sharing sites? I have to open up iPhoto, find a photo crop/export it to desktop, then [...]
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It’s been a while since we’ve heard a juicy rumor.
Valleywag says:
What’s going on over at FriendFinder Networks, née Penthouse Media Group? Apparently the effort to migrate into an online publishing and social networking powerhouse is being hampered by developers dissatisfied with working conditions and an inability to hire new staff — even though supervisor Anthony [...]
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I am not currently a member of eHarmony and they are trying to sell me a Permium Personality Profile that helps me “get the most out of all the relationships in your life, especially the ones you develop on eHarmony. “
After three months of endless come-ons to re-subscribe to the point of negative groveling, they [...]
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Yesterday I spent some time in the virtual pre-event for the social networking conference coming up in San Francisco July 10-11, 2008.
PringoNetworks hosted the pre-event Chat. Userplane powered the chat room. Before, during and after the last virtual event in February I sent several emails to Pringo and made a ton off recommendations on how [...]
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