Get More Matches on Tinder

If you have used Tinder, you may be frustrated by not being able to get as many quality matches as you want. Thankfully, there are several ways to increase the appeal of your profile and get more people to swipe you in the right direction. By changing your written profile, choosing the right pictures, and taking extra steps to promote your profile, you’ll be able to get more matches.

Steps

Making Your Written Profile More Attractive

1. Craft a good tagline. A good tagline can sometimes pique the interest of people who may not otherwise match you. By crafting a unique, thoughtful, or interesting tagline, you might lure in people who would otherwise pass you by.
   • Be honest about who you are and what you like, and include some specific detail that might be interesting. Try to sum up everything in a line: "Outdoors lover, Columbia graduate, writer, and into the finer things in life."
   • Avoid being dishonest. Unless you go sailing a couple of times a month, don’t say that you sail all the time.
   • Don’t use overtly sexual references.
2. Complete your profile in full. By completing your profile in full, you’ll give potential matches the minimum amount of information they need to assess you. At the same time, Tinder may sort incomplete profiles down to the bottom of the swipe list.
   • People might pass you by if you skip the bio section.
   • Use this as an opportunity to give readers a glimpse into who you are. For example, if you volunteer at animal shelters on the weekend and work as a whitewater rafting guide during the summer, let people know.
   • Make sure to fill in your education qualification. This is important, even if you don’t have a degree from Harvard Business School. It gives people – and Tinder – a sense of your experiences.
3. Reduce your text, if you need to. Just as not having any info in your bio will hurt you, having too much text will also hurt you. By providing too much, you’ll provide potential matches with information that might lead them to move on.
   • Tinder has a 500-word limit. Try to come in well under that limit. Anywhere between 100 and 300 words is ideal.
   • Only use as many words as you need to describe yourself and give others a sense of who you are. Your description of yourself might be as simple as "I'm an introvert who enjoys the arts, classical music, and the outdoors."
   • Avoid long words or wordy or run-on sentences.
4. Avoid sharing too much. While it may be beneficial to provide insight into your personality, you’ll likely lose matches if you share too much information. Ultimately, less is often better when you’re trying to get matches with people you’ve never met.
   • Don’t talk about your health, any conditions you may have, or fun facts about you losing part of your index finger when you were twelve.
   • Avoid writing anything about previous relationships. For example, don’t say “I’m looking for love after a bad divorce.”
   • Try not to be negative in any way. For example, don’t write “I’m on Tinder because the dating scene is hard.”
5. Rewrite your text if you appear too into yourself. When rewriting the text for your profile, make sure you don’t appear like you’re bragging about yourself or your accomplishments. Ultimately, you need to write carefully so you balance confidence and modesty.
   • If you’re monetarily successful, don’t flaunt it by writing about how you make $200,000 a year and need the right person to complete you.
   • If you’re very well educated, don’t say you need someone super smart. Instead, write about how you need a witty companion to match your own sensibilities.
6. Add humor. Humor is an excellent tool to put prospective matches at ease and to get them to swipe you in the right direction. By using humor in your profile, you'll give people who view it a better idea of who you are. You might also make them smile or laugh.
   • Consider self-deprecating humor. If you're generally a confident person, you may be able to include a joke about yourself. For instance, if you're tall, make a comment about how the air "up here" is thinner.
   • Make sure your humor comes across right. While you may think your joke about dogs is really funny, others may not. To avoid this, have friends review your joke before you post it.
   • Avoid off-beat humor and jokes about race, ethnicity, religion, or politics.

Selecting the Right Pictures

1. Choose good quality photos. One of the best ways to lose matches is to upload photos that are low quality. Thus, make sure you choose photos that are clear and are taken under circumstances that frame you as an attractive person.
   • Be careful when posting ultra-high resolution photos, as they may capture skin imperfections and other issues that could turn people off.
   • Don’t upload any photos taken with cheap webcams.
   • Avoid blurry photos or photos taken in mirrors.
   • Focus on photos that are taken in good and flattering lighting. For example, stay away from photos taken under florescent lighting.
2. Reduce the number of photos you make available. The number of photos you upload to Tinder correlates directly to the number of matches you get. This is important, as the more photos you upload, the largely the likelihood that you’ll turn someone off.
   • Provide between two and six photos.
   • If you must include a photo of a pet, dogs may help you get more matches than other animals.
   • Avoid uploading pictures of you as a baby or a child.
3. Include an attractive headshot. An attractive headshot should serve as your main photo. It will give viewers an idea of what you look like in ideal circumstances. This is important, as potential matches will want a clear view of your full face before swiping you.
   • Make sure your face is clearly visible in your pictures.
   • Avoid mugging or duck-face. Keep it natural.
   • Your potential matches likely won’t take a chance on someone who’s hiding their face or doing something goofy.
   • Emphasize your best features. Studies show that men most regularly choose women with larger eyes and lips, while women choose men with beards and masculine features.
4. Use a full-body date night-ready photo. By including a photo that shows you dressed up and ready to go out on the town, you’ll give potential matches an idea of the person they’ll encounter on a date. Without this type of picture, they’ll be left wondering about the person they might meet up with.
   • This picture should show you dressed up and looking your best.
   • Consider using a photo of you strolling under a street light in a nice part of your city or town.
   • You can use filters to alter date-night ready photos.
5. Pick photos in which you are alone. While it may seem like a good idea to upload photos of you with others you care about, you have a much larger chance of alienating potential matches than winning people over.
   • Don’t post pictures of yourself with children.
   • You don’t want potential matches comparing you to someone else or scrutinizing the situations you’re in.
   • If you must use a group photo, it should be your final photo.
6. Maintain positive body language in your photos. Positive body language is key in getting more matches on Tinder. Not only will positive body language make you look more attractive, but it’ll help people get the impression of you as a friendly and likable person.
   • Don’t slouch.
   • Avoid crossing your arms or posing in a defensive or threatening way.
   • Smile! It may increase your appeal to others.
7. Change your pictures if they're not working. If you're not getting matches, change your photos around. By rotating or using new photos, you’ll get an idea of what photos work and which ones don’t.
   • Look through your existing photo library for possible photos.
   • Take new photos, if you need. For example, get a friend to follow you around for an hour and take photos. Then go through them and see which ones might work.
   • Ask friends which photos they think are best. In fact, you might want to ask others who are successful on Tinder what photos they think will work for you.
   • If you have any professionally taken headshots or solo portraits, those are usually a great choice.

Tweaking Your Settings

1. Search a wider area for matches. Generally, Tinder settings are tailored to people who live in big cities, and want to meet people in the same neighborhood or community. By enlarging the geographical area you’re willing to make matches with, you’ll probably get more.
   • Go to your settings and make your search distance a little bigger if you want more matches. If it's set at {{safesubst:#invoke:convert|convert}}, change it to 20, 50, or even 100. Remember, though, to make a match, potential matches must have similar distance settings.
   • If you live in a rural area, you might consider making your search area very wide. If you'd be willing to go anywhere in the state for a meet-up, consider it.
2. Expand your age range. A larger age range will open many more possible matches. Ultimately, you may discover many people you wouldn’t have otherwise matched with.
   • Start by expanding your range a little bit. For example, if you originally searched for 25 to 30, expand that range to 20 to 35. You might find you have a lot in common with people that are younger or older than you.
   • Think about your comfort range. For example, if you’re 25, will you be comfortable dating someone that is 7 years younger or 7 years older? A 14-year range might provide you with many matches.
3. Pay to boost your profile. Tinder has recently introduced Tinder Boost. This service allows you to pay a fee to temporarily put your profile toward the top of the swipe list. By paying this fee, more people will be able to see your profile – thus increasing your matches.
   • Tinder Boost moves your profile up for 30 minutes at a time.
   • Tinder has said that their service may increase your views by 10 times.
   • The boosting service costs between 3 and 5 dollars depending on your market.
   • Tinder Plus users can boost their profile for free.

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See also

• Talk to Girls on Tinder
• Adjust Your Tinder Age Range
• Make a Good Tinder Profile
• Change Your Location on Tinder
• Chat on Tinder
• Delete a Tinder Account
• Use the Tinder App
• Deactivate Tinder Account Using iOS Devices
• Keep Tinder from Crashing
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