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Articles tagged 'how to write an online dating profile'

TMI – What to Leave out of Your Profile

TMI (too much information) is an acronym that you have probably seen a lot on forums and comments feeds. It's a useful phrase when someone tells you too much about their newborns nappy content, or the intimate...

Clock Change Challenge

The autumn clocks change was introduced to encourage us to make the most of daylight hours during the winter months. It is particularly helpful for farmers and other workers who get up early in the morning. Hopefully...

10 Minute Profile Updates

In an ideal world, you'd write a dating profile, make it live and go on to receive a message from the man or woman of your dream within a few hours. In the real world, it can take time to find your perfect match online,...

How to Get People to Contact You on Dating Websites

Are you keen for people to get in contact with you? Yes, well the key is to make it easy for people to get in touch with you. (more…)...

Online Dating Clichés and How to Avoid Them

With more people than ever before joining online dating websites, it’s important to make your profile unique and personal to you. This means avoiding dating clichés! Here are some of the most common clichés and...

Make ’em Laugh

If you've ever read the personal ads in the newspapers, you'll know that a GSOH (good sense of humour) is often the first thing that people mention in their advert. (more…)...

5 Dating Profile Tips

Writing your online dating profile can be daunting, but once you get started it's well worth the effort (after all online dating is one of the most successful ways of meeting new people). Here are 5 tips for the...

Top 10 Mistakes People Make on Dating Sites

Whether you join a niche site like Muddy Matches or a generic dating site, it’s important to avoid these common mistakes when online dating: (more…)...

Top 10 Most Common Dislikes

We're talked before about what people's funny dislikes are, but here is the list of the most common dislikes on member's profiles. While I expected to see a lot of fears in the list, apparently the things that really...

Keeping Your Profile Fresh – Profile Text

In the same way that changing your photos can attract new people to your profile, updating your profile text can also attract new people. Here the most important things to consider when updating your profile text:...

What NOT to Write in Your Online Dating Profile

At Muddy Matches we look through hundreds of online dating profiles each week and if we'd had a pound for every person who likes “going out or staying in with a bottle of wine and a DVD” we would have been able to...

Love in the Countryside returns to BBC

BBC 2 reality rural dating series Love in the Countryside returns to our TV screens this week (Tuesday, 9pm) and yes, here at Muddy Matches HQ, we admit...

Why Online Dating Beats Meeting in a Bar

“If anyone asks we’ll say that we met at the pub” is something that we’ve seen on a fair few profiles, but we think that internet dating beats...

5 People Not to Include in Your Profile Photos

Before I start, any photo that shows what you look like is better than nothing. However, if you have the choice there are certain people who you shouldn’t...