There are over 22 million unique visitors every month going to a variety of online dating sites. If you think about it on a grandiose scale that is a lot of possible matches to look through. Thankfully the sites filter your choices down to which ones can be suitable to what your looking for. An article posted on Computerworld.com talks about “Joe”. Joe found 500 people who appeared to fit his criteria. It still amazes me easy it is to find people online. All we are looking for is one – pretty high odds of finding someone. Joe did – he narrowed down his match until he ended up with the one he wanted.

Good online dating sites build their sites on a combination of technology, most times we don’t even realize it when we go to these sites. Some good points that are brought up in this article:

• Offer excellent response times. People want instant gratification, so the sites try to give users at least some matches as soon as they’ve created an account and completed their profiles.

• Convert at least 10% of visitors who register into paying customers — preferably more.

• Deliver an acceptable range of probable matches and offer a variety of ways to pursue those prospects, including high-tech developments from video chat to photo-realistic avatars.

• Keep the quality of the prospect pool high by weeding out inactive and misbehaving users and by blocking the 10% or more of new accounts every day that are estimated to be scammers, con artists, criminals, sexual predators and other undesirables that can overwhelm a site and drive away paying customers.

Most of this information isn’t easy to find out online – if you have a doubt get hold of the online dating site and ask. Even if you are looking to date someone on the wilder side, a good site will remove anyone from their site may put another member in danger. Just because a dating site is online it does not mean they have no offline presence. Find out what you need to know – and then start playing with your numbers!