OkCupid (OKC) is a site that was established in 2004 for online dating, friendship and social networking.
It has multiple choice questions to help match people with each other.
You can use messages and emails to tell your story and meet people.
You are more than simply a picture on a profile and have lots to offer beyond a few lines of notes.
Tell your stories, highlight your passions and talk on this sexy dial website about things that are beyond a surface conversation.
OkCupid is about you as a person not just about a picture on a profile.
Tips to meet people on OkCupid
You need to understand how OkCupid works so you can meet the people that you want to.
The site’s algorithm can limit who you are matched with.
Every time you answer one of the questions on the site, it narrows down the field on who you can meet.
Some are removed based on your answer and you are removed from others as well.
You only end up seeing people who have certain traits as outlined by the questions.
This means that a person you might be interested in will be hard to meet if the questions do not work in your favor.
This goes for the words you use in your profile as well as they are also part of the search algorithms.
Profile
Update your profile often.
The more you change it the more you will find yourself in searches.
Just a little change here and there can boost your profile.
If you do a quick search after doing your profile, look at the top three and you will see their profiles are similar to yours.
The best way to do yours is to choose 2-3 items that are critical to you.
Once you know you can use it to stay focused on what you want your profile to say.
Questions
You need to assess how you answer questions just like you did with your profile.
If you want to meet specific people, then you need to give answers that will get you there.
When you log in, clear all your old answers and start new or if this is a new profile than even better as there is nothing there.
You only want to answer the questions that are really important to you and your potential match.
You need to focus on the ones that have 4 options in the answers versus the yes and no ones.
That’s not to say you should not answer the yes and no questions, but you need to only do the ones that are critical to you as a match and mark them as very important.
Make sure the questions you answer you mark as very important and skip any others that are irrelevant and that you are not concerned with.
You do only want to expand the people match with, but you want matches while keeping the filters more open.
Only answer 10 questions that you really can and want to give answers to under the notes listed above.
This may mean you need to go through a hundred but rather than just answering randomly, you will be targeting people you want to meet with the limited original questions.
Search
Once you have answered the 10 questions then you can look at your matches that are in the age range and area you want.
You will see new faces!
Read their profiles and see what sounds good to you.
When you see someone you are interested in, look at their questions and find 2-10 of them that interest you and then answer those ones on yours as well.
Do this for a few of your top interests.
Repeat
Every time you add more answers to your questions (5-10) then redo your search by best match %.
This will bring up more matches and more questions.
Keep going back and forth until you have 100 questions answered that are central to your interests.
Keep noting people and changes in keywords so you can continue to pic things that are best for you and your profile.
Final Tweaks
Now that you have done all your question research, done your own answers and revamped your profile you need to do some final fixes.
While you need to post a pic that meets the terms of service and shows your face, but it also shows off something original.
Something that highlights your uniqueness in the world.
Something that is intriguing and starts a conversation.
Maye it is a pic of you dressed up, participating in a sport or art you love.
Maybe you on a trip or event you loved.
Make sure you have multiple pictures that you can switch up.
Change your picture as often as your profile.
Keywords
Use the keywords you think are critical to you.
This makes sure who you will see and who will find you.
Make sure these words are in your profile so it will get the hits you want.
Take out what you do not like so you do not bring people over to your profile who you do not want to be matched with.
Final Thoughts
Meeting people on OkCupid can be great with just a little bit of work.
Once you have followed the steps for your profile and picture, you will want to always be in the mode of updating.
By always updating to keep things fresh and link you will end up with some significant matches.
Change things as soon as you do not like them so there will not be any discomfort of who is matched to you.
