How to Stay Safe Online

Online dating is a great way to find love, but with anything in life, it pays to be cautious.We have put together some advice to help you to stay safe and to enjoy dating dating. Choose a safe website Each year thousands of online dating websites are set up, but not all of them have… Continue reading How to Stay Safe Online

Guest Post: The Dos and Don’ts of Profile Writing

There is such a lot of conflicting advice out there on how to write your dating profile and let’s be honest it is important to get it right. I’ve found it helpful to think about your profile  rather like a cross between a CV and a great piece of PR. Does that sound tough? Well,… Continue reading Guest Post: The Dos and Don’ts of Profile Writing

5 Dating Cliches to Avoid

It’s ridiculously easy to fill your online dating profile with cliches, but a cliche free dating profile will help you to stand out from the crowd. Here are 10 dating cliches that you will find in millions of dating profiles across the world (admittedly in a variety of languages) and some ways to say them… Continue reading 5 Dating Cliches to Avoid

Guest Post: What Women Should Know

Whether they are hoping to meet their life partner or just looking to go out for a few dates, more and more people are turning to using online dating sites. Men and women are using dating sites because it allows them to meet people outside of their usual social circle. It is also easier to… Continue reading Guest Post: What Women Should Know

How to Write a Dating Profile

Let’s face it, writing your dating profile can lead to writer’s block, so sometimes it’s a good idea to come at it from another angle – to think outside of the box by drawing a lot of boxes. Brainstorms aren’t just for quirky teacher in films or team building activities, they can also be helpful… Continue reading How to Write a Dating Profile

How to Look Your Best in Photos

Adding a photo to your dating profile can drastically increase the amount of people who look at your profile and it will also make you more likely to appear on the first page of someone’s search. Here are some tips to get the most flattering photo, to show you at your best: Don’t be frightened… Continue reading How to Look Your Best in Photos

What to Write About Your Job on Your Profile

If you gather together a group of people who don’t know each, you can almost guarantee that it’ll be less than five minutes before the conversation turns to what people do for a living (assuming you’re not all at an industry event). So it’s only fair to assume that when someone is looking at your… Continue reading What to Write About Your Job on Your Profile

Dating Profile Photos Dos and Don’ts

Your main picture is one of the first things people see when they look at your online dating profile, so it’s important that it shows you in the best light. There’s no point spending hours writing an amazingly witty profile about yourself and then uploading the first picture you find, or worse still not even… Continue reading Dating Profile Photos Dos and Don’ts

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 buy a cellar full of vintage champagne by now. So being the… Continue reading What NOT to Write in Your Online Dating Profile