June 2007 - Posts

• Guy online dating tips

  Posted Saturday, 30 June 2007 1:49 PM by mark

  Girls can spot insincerity. They can. Cutting and pasting the same message to fifty or so girls will not work. They want to know that you have read their profile and feel you may be a good match. Too often blokes go onto a dating site, type in one message Read More... 0 Comments Filed under: online dating

• Seven tips for safe online dating

  Posted Friday, 29 June 2007 4:40 PM by mark

  Here are our top 10 tips for safe online dating: 1. Send no money to anyone, ever. 2. Do not provide personal contact details until you are 100% sure of the person you are in contact with. 3. Do not share photos of yourself you would not want others to Read More... 0 Comments Filed under: online dating

• Dating scammer season

  Posted Thursday, 28 June 2007 4:32 PM by mark

  It must be dating scammer season in the northern hemisphere. Over the last week the number of scammers trying to get to people using 3loves has jumped considerably. Some are cunning and got over the wall briefly. Thanks to the report abuse button on each Read More... 0 Comments Filed under: dating scams

• Banning China

  Posted Wednesday, 27 June 2007 10:09 AM by mark

  China is on our banned list at 3loves free online dating. Our research indicates that there are too many scams surrounding people who represent themselves as women from China looking for love with western men. By banning access to the 3loves site from Read More... 0 Comments Filed under: online dating

• Looking for girls for dating

  Posted Tuesday, 26 June 2007 4:06 PM by mark

  68% of people registered with 3loves free online dating are boys, 30% are girls and 2% are registered as TV/TS/TG. We need more girls, to even the balance with boys. 3loves is not alone with this imbalance. It’s our experience that boys are more likely Read More... 0 Comments

• Naked photos and online dating

  Posted Friday, 22 June 2007 10:50 PM by mark

  We approve all photos which get loaded at 3loves - to ensure that there is nothing way over the top and to try and weed out photos people load which are obviously clips from a magazine or some other website. We want to keep it real at 3loves. In the process Read More... 0 Comments Filed under: online dating, naked photos

• Beware of online dating scammers

  Posted Thursday, 21 June 2007 8:45 AM by mark

  It seems that no matter how robust website protections are, scammers still get through. In our case we bar access from Ghana and surrounding countries yet some from there still get in and ask members for money. The best way to protect against these scammers Read More... 0 Comments Filed under: online dating, dating scams

• Passing 7,500 profiles

  Posted Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:37 AM by mark

  3loves has just passed 7,500 live and active profiles. For a small online dating site with nothing to spend on marketing we're building a good community. Read More... 0 Comments Filed under: online dating

• Google Adsense feedback

  Posted Sunday, 17 June 2007 10:58 AM by mark

  It has been three weeks since we introduced Google ads on our 3loves site and we have received only one or two complaints. These ads are the only revenue model we have for 3loves since the online dating site is free and will always be free. Setting up Read More... 0 Comments Filed under: online dating

• Free online personals, seriously

  Posted Saturday, 16 June 2007 4:39 PM by mark

  People keep asking us what the scam is with our 3loves free online personals site. They don't believe that it really is free. It is free of course - free today and free forever. More than half who ask the question have a story to tell about a "free" online Read More... 0 Comments Filed under: online dating, online personals

• The Fairfax / RSVP traffic scammer

  Posted Friday, 15 June 2007 7:17 AM by mark

  We now know the identity of the person behind the scam in Februay this year which targeted the 3loves keyword in an effort to drive traffic to RSVP. While we still don't understand why they targeted us - because we're so small compared to RSVP - uncoveriung Read More... 0 Comments Filed under: Google scam, click fraud

• Mature dating online

  Posted Wednesday, 13 June 2007 10:06 AM by mark

  I was watching TV late the other night and was subjected to the usual fare of online dating advertisements from RSVP.com.au and others. It’s disappointing they all pitch online dating to a younger demographic. The search for romance is not bound by demographics. Read More... 0 Comments Filed under: online dating, personals, online personals

• No fake online personals profiles here

  Posted Sunday, 3 June 2007 11:43 AM by mark

  Every personals profile at 3loves is real. We have not purchased a database of profiles from elsewhere. We will never purchase an online personals database to bulk up our content. Not all sites can claim this. It is possible to purchase personals profiles Read More... 0 Comments Filed under: online personals

• Newsweek writes up free online dating

  Posted Saturday, 2 June 2007 3:39 PM by mark

  Newsweek has an excellent article about free online dating sites and whether they pose a risk to the paid for online dating sites. Of course here at 3loves free online dating we'd like to think this is the case - why should people pay for something that Read More... 0 Comments Filed under: online dating, online personals

• Avoid online dating click fraud

  Posted Friday, 1 June 2007 1:21 PM by mark

  We hear all sorts of stories from people using online dating sites some real and some, we suspect, embellished. The most consistent story of frustration we hear is from those who have used sites where you pay per service. One person told me yesterday Read More... 0 Comments Filed under: online dating, online personals, click fraud