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Star Position Search Engine Placement Ranking

by David Evans on June 22, 2009   in Marketing

Search Engine toolbar Star Position has reached out several times recently. They have a browser toolbar you might have seen advertised on cable networks, supposedly 35 million installs. There is a flat rate of $500 or so for search phrases. The search results get injected at the top of Google and other search engine results. [...]

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Guest Post: Dating Virtual Assistants

by David Evans on June 12, 2009   in Profiles

Today’s guest post is by Scott Valdez, founder of Virtual Dating Assistants.
It is really a privilege to have the opportunity to write a guest post for Online Dating Insider so early into the development of our company. For understandable reasons, we didn’t receive a considerably warm welcome to the market during the week leading up [...]

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Google Launches Profile Results

by David Evans on April 28, 2009   in Profiles

The Google Blog post Search for “me” on Google caught my attention.

To give you greater control over what people find when they search for your name, we’ve begun to show Google profile results at the bottom of U.S. name-query search pages. These results offer abbreviated information from user-created Google profiles and a link to the [...]

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Google’s Similar Images Good for Online Dating?

by David Evans on April 20, 2009   in Uncategorized

The Google Labs blog talks about Similar Images.

Image Search is a tool you can use to find just about any kind of image, but it can sometimes be difficult to find the right image if you can’t describe it in words. The new Similar Images feature was developed with just this in mind. Using it [...]

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Can Online Dating Meta-Search Sites Succeed?

by David Evans on April 16, 2009   in Uncategorized

Good riddance, tax-man.
Alex at Rubixx says the dating site search aggregator re-launched a few weeks ago. Nice to see some of my ideas show up in the interface. A note for all dating meta-search companies like Rubixx, and Canoodle. Think twice about your initial partners. filling your site with millions of profiles from a site [...]

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Incestuous Search With Spark’s Facelink

by David Evans on October 15, 2008   in Profiles

Spark Networks has launched Facelink, a meta-search engine which returns online dating profile results from across all Spark properties.
Facelink reminds me of when I went to Lycos a few years ago to discuss their meta-search engine. I told Lycos that their site was destined to fail (it did) and I’m not straying too far from [...]

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Online Dating News: July 18, 2008

by David Evans on July 19, 2008   in Jobs, Traffic

Back from a few days on Nantucket. I feel like I’ve been away for a month. Next week I’m taking a few days off as well, need to get in some summertime fun while it lasts.
ReadWriteWeb says:
More than 10% of the searches for the top 10 dating search terms were URLs (match.com, plentyoffish.com) and almost [...]

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The majority of online dating companies know little about how people are using their sites.
I had this thought while I was reading about Rearden Commerce, which just raised $100 million. Patrick Grady has spent the past eight years of his life building the ultimate personal Web assistant in relative obscurity. But now his company, Rearden [...]

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Helping Users Help Themselves

by David Evans on April 14, 2008   in Marketing

Browsing PlentyOfFish, I came across a new link:
New Search –> Users who haven’t gotten an email in over 24 hours sorted by last online.
What a great idea. I’ve built out email communications campaigns for clients and have pushed for this type of functionality, but rarely see this type of messaging customization implemented.
Many sites are spending [...]

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Yahoo Personals Improves Search

by David Evans on November 20, 2007   in Dating Sites

Yahoo! Personals just introduced several updates to the searching and matching features.
Yahoo! Personals daters performing an average of 3.6 searches per day in their quest for that connection. In addition to a visual refresh that features new profile cards that more clearly convey information, additional enhancements include:
- New matching capabilities that improve search relevance by [...]

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