Facebook Adds New Relationship Statuses
Facebook is adding civil unions and domestic partnerships as relationship statuses. This will affect dating sites running on Facebook as well as external sites leveraging Facebook Connect and the social graph. I assume Zoosk, Are You Interested, DateBuzz, Heartbroker...Optimizing Personal Ads For Better Dating Results
While reading the SEOmoz Search Engine Optimization blog I came across 5 Ways Being An SEO Helps You With Online Dating. For all the experts talking about writing a great profile, plead read this and incorporate into your advice. Top Dating Tip: Users will often use...Trend Alert: People Spurn Dating Sites, Take Matchmaking Into their Own Hands
People are starting to take the art of connecting people for the purpose of dating into their own hands. Seth Menachem started a new blog experiment, mysinglepeeps.com, in the hopes of helping his single friends find someone to love. NPR’s Off Ramp did a radio...NPR Marketplace Dating Industry Story
Marketplace will broadcast a short piece on Monday, February 21st about the online dating industry. Yours truly will be featured. If you don’t catch the morning report on NPR, you can always search for it online at www.npr.org.Over-40 Dating Site Meetcha For Sale
Meetcha is a unique over-40 singles site built by top ‘Boomer’ experts and it’s looking for a new home. What makes Meetcha unique is a social approach to dating that combines online interest matching with a self-organizing system for local meet-ups...Zoosk To Overtake Match, Says OKCupid Doesn’t Innovate
In a recent Venture Beat article, Zoosk made some pretty inflammatory comments. Alex Mehr, Zoosk co-founder, regarding Match: “We can’t kill them and they can’t kill us … but we really believe that we are going to win.” All this talk about killing and winning, are we...Conversion Rate (Experts)
Dating site conversion rates are more important than ever. If you’re spending thousands a day driving traffic to your site, you should be wringing as many additional clicks/signups/conversions as possible. Conversion Rate Experts sent over a few of their most...Next Generation Online Dating Advertising
We’ve all seen the dating site ads featuring cute girls chatting on laptops. We’ve seen the Adult Friend Finder geo-targeted ads that have your city name written across a woman’s butt dynamically on the fly. Back in 1995 I used to upload the first...The Ultimate Soulmate Summit
In the last few years I have found myself seeking balance and understanding in my life. Along this path I have tried yoga, several different types of energy work, meditation and the usual stack of self-improvement books. Along the way I came across something called...
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