Up Your Online Dating Score
Men's Fitness (US)|September 2017

Online dating can be tricky. Try these statistically proven tips and tricks from industry insiders and watch your in-box swell.

Cassie Shortsleeve
Up Your Online Dating Score

What you post and how you reach out—let’s call it your online dating MO— can be the difference between a hot love life and romantic Siberia.

So we asked experts at the online dating sites eHarmony, Match, OKCupid, and Hinge to reveal which moves work and which are dating duds.

1) Add profile pics.

Don’t stop at just one shot: Adding a second doubles your chances of being contacted, and posting 10-plus quadruples them. Sports-related shots are 45% more apt to get a like; B&W pics are 106% more likely.

This story is from the September 2017 edition of Men's Fitness (US).

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