Internet Dating - Testing Internet Dating Sites

By Michael R White

After much experience with various Internet dating sites I have decided to coin the term "profilebot". This term is used to name small computer programs that are written to either create Internet dating profiles or to send emails en mass to trial members on the site.

Since the annual amount spent on Internet dating is increasing each year lots of people want to get a slice of that profit margin pie. The problem is competition. How can a new Internet dating site compete against the bigger more established ones? Getting clicks is only the beginning.
Having a large member base is an important element so why not create a small piece of software that trawls the Internet for profile information and copys it to create hundreds of profiles to increase the size and therefor strength of a new site.

I strongly believe that this practice although misleading is common place on some Internet dating sites. One of the major problems for new sites is the lack of "women seeking men" profiles and the influx of "men seeking women" profiles. This is common on most Adult Sites. So the profilebot technique is fast and efficient way to remedy this and even the apparent stakes for the potential market of male paying members.

Also because so many sites can be a complete waste of time most guys who don't have money to burn will sign up for the free trial and see if the site looks promising. But what next? If a guy is not getting any emails from the female members why would he become a full paying member? He would not, but if he started getting emails from all sorts of interesting and sexy women then he would probably sign up straight away.

This being said imagine the temptation of a site owner who has poured all of his/her money into a site in the hope it yields a slice of that huge annual Internet dating market pie. But it's sitting there without many paying members.

Wouldn't it be tempting to create a profilebot that starts emailing seductive messages to all those lonely guys in the hope that they sign up to respond. They would sign up immediately and begin responding to those messages! And the cash would start pouring in.

The way to test it is to simply open a free trial member account. Don't fill out any of the fields at all. Just enter a user name, age and city. No photo, no blurb. Leave it for a couple of weeks. If the site in question is using a variation of the profilebot technique then in a few weeks you should have a bunch of emails from supposed female users. I have tested this on a few sites and found that this or a similar variation must be true.

Another question to ask is can you reply to paying member without signing up if they contact you? The most reputable site allow this function because they know their system works and they are getting good business due this very fact.

In most cases these "female users" will be hot to trot and totally gorgeous. To good to be true in fact. The funniest part is when the email says " I really like your picture" thats when you know the message has been falsely generated. Because there's no picture on that profile.

If you understand all the different time wasters in the Internet dating world then you have a shot at making it work for you If you use this test on an Internet Dating Site then you have a better chance of finding the site thats going to yeild the best results for you!