A core group of dating executives that have been reading this blog since it started in 2002 and that number has grown over the years as we spent more and more time talking to dating site executives, speaking at iDate and helping the media make sense of the online dating marketplace.
After our end-of-year look at the statics, its clear that our most popular posts have to do with topics like Chatroulette, mobile apps, casual dating and other topics singles find interesting through Google searches and our media partners.
After years of focusing primarily on the business of online dating and catering to the needs of the online dating industry, we are going to start publishing articles that focus more on dating-related topics of interest to singles.
We’ve published guest posts from time to time, mostly written by dating industry insiders. We’re going to broaden the net and start accepting singles-focused guest posts.
Before all the dating affiliate sites get all link-bait happy, a few caveats. We’ll probably post 1 out of 10 submissions. Dating affiliate sites probably won’t get included unless the articles are fresh and fantastic and the site doesn’t look like junk.
We want posts with titles like these:
- “How to Game Match.com to get and stay at the top of the search results and Daily5”
- “OKCupid hacks and guaranteed opening lines that work”
- “10 date ideas to propose on HowAboutWe”
- “Dating sites are dead, I met my wife on Facebook through a friend of a friend of my barber’s son’s girlfriend’s sister”
- “New Dating Assistant site marries off 5 members in first month”
Hope thats clear enough for would-be submitters. Improve your odds by sending in brilliant prose that educates singles (college-level writing, not generic junk we all read five years ago), teaches us about emerging trends in the online dating market or generally blow us away with your brilliance. As always, bonus points for making us chuckle. Any questions?
In other news, we’re also accepting Sponsored Posts. Sponsored posts provide your brand with a unique way to speak directly to Online Dating Insider readers. More involved than a guest post, we’ll work with you to create a message that speaks directly to our audience by taking a look at the post and suggesting revisions to make sure your message is relevant, topical and in-line with our editorial guidelines.
– Sponsored post run like regular blog post (with attribution) : permanent
– Link to post 1/2 down the page (after second post): 30 days
– Link to post in sidebar: 30 days
Intrigued? Contact us for details and pricing.
And finally, if you not feeling very creative you can also buy a link in our sidebar. We’ll accept quality sites and refuse the rest at our discretion.
Feel free to talk to us if you have an interesting opportunity that we haven’t thought of.
