Your Profile is best described as your acceptance party to the world of Internet Dating. To get the attention of not just any man, but a quality man, it is important you put up a profile that highlights your best sides.

Perhaps, you have had your share of horrible dating story in your search for a quality man, and you have tried some sites for a match online and the experience turned out more horrifying. Even with how terrible your experience has been, your friends and family who were supposed to understand your ordeal better than anyone, blames you because they think you are being too picky; they think you should be more relaxed and lower your standard, or you’d never get a real date nor finally settle down.

Ultimately, I think that would be a wrong move – relaxing your standard. You are looking for someone to spend the rest of your life with, so yeah girlfriend!, you need to be as choosy as you can.

Dating is hard for everyone, online or offline. You are probably that girl who often meet the wrong type of men, you find yourself often trust the “wolf in sheep clothing” types. After your first, at most second date, you often come back with mascara-stained tears running down your face after trusting yet another asshole with your fragile heart. A girl recently tweeted that, she has cursed her heart, she said any other man that breaks her heart will run mad. Funny right? I bet her heart was on its last lifeline.

Obviously, you constantly think that your single status is because of lack of quality men around. Well, I think you need help reevaluating why that may be your resort. It is very easy to blame any other person than yourself, why you have not met a quality man yet. Well, I think the bunch part of the reason is probably your poor profile or your negligence of profile rules to meet a quality man. 

We may not be able to change our environment and the douche bags that surround us, but there are things, you don’t just take for granted while trying online dating and this is one of them. Your profile rules are your get-way towards attracting the quality man you yearn for.

Here are 8 profile rules to meet a quality man

1. Make a List
You need to know what exactly you are going into and be ready for the right opportunities. Draw out you plan and strategies before you even start out on creating a profile. Make a wish list. What are you looking for in your dream quality man? Create your list and be as specific as possible. Don’t think or write something like “I want someone who wants or loves kids”, break it down. Say that you want someone who wants three kids, about four years older and is willing to go through fertility treatments with you should pregnancy become a problem. Part of making your list is defining what you want.

P/S. This doesn’t mean you can’t eventually change a thing or two, when you finally meet a quality man. Of course you can. Relationship is about compromise between two people who are willing and ready to meet each other half-way. But at least, you are guided and more confident because you know what you want.

The idea is for you know more specifically about your favorite things or priorities. What you want in a man and what you can’t fall for by mistake.

2. Prioritize
Have you made your list? Do you know the traits to look out for? Do you know what you want or don’t want? Do you know what your dream quality man should look like? Then, it is time to prioritize your list. Like I said earlier, you can make compromises, but there are just some things, you can’t compromise for anybody and if your catch is a quality man, he wouldn’t bug you about them.

Think about the attributes in your previous relationships. Develop a scoring system. Allocate points to your top priorities. Decide what a man should score before you accept to go on a physical date with him. This is you, trying the lay off the junks and give more room for your dream quality man to find you.

3. Get Online
Pick websites to use. Site that has a more general environment with a lot of options. Sites that have more serious people, who are also looking for some long-term relationships. You can shop with more than two sites at a time, though, some sites are really expensive but it increases your chances and helps your choice. For the most part, dating sites aren’t doing anything particularly mysterious or magical. It’s best to treat dating sites as giant databases for you to explore options.

4. Recent Smiling Face Picture
Men are naturally wired to be attracted through visuals. What gets a man’s attention is your face first, then body. How does your picture portray you? Unhappy or happy, desperate or just there. You need a current picture that shows you smiling and happy.  Who doesn’t like happy people? You appear positive, fun and full of life when you are smiling and every good quality man wants to identify with such a woman.

When choosing a profile picture, make sure that you choose the one you have some great make up and clothes that show off the best of you.

Your profile pictures can either win or lose a quality man’s attention, and it does not have anything to do with whether you are pretty or not. What you’re doing in the pictures can affect how you’re perceived, and with the right pictures, you could be able to grow your audience, catch a few more eyes and probably invite the quality man you are targeting.  

Good looks is good, it is an added advantage but you don’t have to be ridiculously good-looking to meet a quality man at online dating sites, and even offline. So if you’re a normal woman with the right picture, you’re already ahead of the game.

So in my opinion, the right picture will be a recent smiling picture, that shows you are happy, show your hobbies, and interests. More than any selfie, these profile pictures show people how special and interesting you are.  They attract people who have things in common with you and tell people that it looks like fun to hang out with you. Remember, your online dating profile needs to be a conversation starter.

5. Keep Your Profile Short
Long profiles don’t always get much attention. Everyone is busy these days, no one want to task their brain with lengthy write ups that probably doesn’t have anything to do with them. For a quality woman hoping to find a quality man, you should also be very thoughtful and quite smart. You should put yourself in the shoes of those who are likely to click on your profile.  Profile that will grow popular are profiling that appear shorter and intriguing. I will suggest that you read aloud your profile to yourself after writing it.

Use language that is positive. Talk about what excites you, fun and happy things about you and work on reducing the ‘I’s in your profile to a minimum, so that you don’t come off sounding boring and insensitive. Once, you have succeeded in creating a short and intriguing profile, stop! Remember, your profile has not more than 10 seconds to get a man’s attention.

6. Profiles need to be engaging and flirty
Flirty yes, but not sensual. He doesn’t need to know everything about you yet. Show some regards to yourself, If you don’t have some regards for yourself, how do you expect the man to respect you? Anyone who is worth dating will appreciate a woman who knows her own worth and wouldn’t want to settle for anything short of amazing. If you’re trying to find a quality man by getting wasted every night and dancing with your skirt over your head, chances are that only douche bags will come clicking at your profile.

Stick to your intriguing short profile, that is also flirty enough to capture eyes, but keep the details about your life for when the two of you meet. That’s when you can share more meaningful, interesting stories and those sexual adventures if you like. The only reason for a great profile is getting a quality man to notice you and want to meet you.

Don’t make the mistake of insinuating anything sexual, they give men the wrong impression about you and would attract the men, who would use you and dump you. You are looking for a long-term relationship date not a hook up situationship.

Think about ending your profile with a sentence that asks a man to write you if he likes what he is attracted to what he is seeing, but not making yourself look desperate and vulnerable. It will put a quality man off. You should aim at looking unique, not the same as every other woman online.

7. Don’t Do False Advertising
While hoping to find true advert of another person. Do same. Stick to who you really are. Pretending to be someone that you are not, just to meet your quality man, is something you can’t keep up. Online dating is one place where you can actually be yourself.  When you choose to do false advertising, and then meet in person, how do you keep up?

Lying by mistake or not is not a good way to start a relationship, you will probably not make it to a second date at all. Most importantly, you may be losing out on many opportunities to meet people who will like you for you. Your so called flaws, can be another’s strength.

Be real to yourself and that will show your self-confidence and it is a good selling point. 

Even when you finally meet offline, stick to your personality, embrace your individuality instead of changing yourself to meet the expectations of a man that you just met. A quality man will love the person that you truly are and not the carefully constructed version of yourself that you have put up because of him. If you made a false representation of yourself to appear more desirable, remember the truth always has a way of coming out.

8. Market Yourself Well
Feel good about yourself first, it helps in how you project yourself out there. Like yourself and like your life. I am sure, you want to meet a fun, happy person, you have to be the person that you’d want to meet.

Don’t just reuse old photos or copy your profile from dating site to another dating site. This is an online dating best practice because it’s common decency. Have your selfies, but still take a full body shot. A quality man would also want to know what you actually look like. Remember men are visual oriented. Unless you want the other person to think that there is something you don’t want to show, post at least one photo showing your full body.

Also, remember to come across as a confident woman, no man will be able to walk all over you because you would never stand for that. Any odd man you meet will most likely be frightened by your confidence, whereas a quality man will be drawn to your confidence and admire it. 

If you come across as a happy, positive, self-confident person, you increase your chances of meeting a quality man.

Finally, promise yourself that you will consciously follow these 8 profile rules to meet a quality man and more importantly, you will take out time to write a really great profile that is interesting, flirty yet short and engaging, with a superb picture of you smiling to capture a quality man’s attention online. This is a great combination for attracting your dream quality man.