5 Dating Profile Tips for Men: Triple Your Matches in 2024

If you want to match more beautiful women on dating apps, follow these 5 tips to triple your matches on Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge.

You need these five important tips if you want to maximize your online dating profile. So, if you’re struggling for quantity or quality of matches on Tinder Bumble and Hinge, buckle up, bro!

If you don't know me, I’m Hunter from Wingman Plus. I'm sitting on over 6,000 Tinder matches right now

I've helped thousands of men around the world match and date more beautiful women using dating apps, and after coaching so many men I've really narrowed this down to a science and found that there are five key tips that you can use to maximize your results.

Tip #1: You need to know what women are actually looking for on dating apps.

Most guys take the five to six least crappy photos in their camera roll, throw them up on Tinder and hope to get some results. Meanwhile, the average woman can take 100 virtually identical selfies and not even post one of them because she's so selective about the image that she puts out there.

Growing up, guys play in the mud… We're playing basketball and sports, playing with Hot Wheels, etc., but girls are going to the bathroom and taking selfies together. So by the time they're young women, they understand their lighting, angles, hair, makeup, and understand how to take good photos that show themselves at their best. So if you want to succeed in attracting women, you need to understand the female perspective.

So what are women actually looking for? Well, they're looking for photos that clearly show what you look like and show yourself at your best. So unfortunately taking the 5 to 6 least crappy photos in your camera roll and hoping for the best results won't get you very far.

With that in mind, you really want to put an effort into clearly showing what you look like in every photo throughout your profile, so avoid photos where you have a motorcycle helmet on, hats and sunglasses at the same time, photos where the back of your head is facing the camera, or putting group photos early on in your profile.

If you're making her guess what you look like, she's going to take the path of least resistance which is to reject you and swipe left.

Now clearly showing what you look like is an important factor and you need to include this in your profile. But you actually have to go a step beyond just showing what you look like.

Let’s be honest… five head-on selfies will do that, but you need to take this a step further and show yourself at your best! So when you're getting your photo taken, make sure that your hair is on point, your beard is lined up - no neck beard), and your style is on point.

You also want to show yourself as confident, happy, and candid on camera. When women are swiping on your profile, your vibe is super important.

You need to present yourself as a guy who’s fun to be around, goes to interesting places, and does interesting things. The best way to do this is to put on a cool layered outfit and go to interesting locations to have your photo taken.

So instead of taking mirror selfies or selfies inside the car, get out of the house and take cool photos in dope locations.

Tip #2: Get someone else to take your photo.

Sure, a good selfie will get you pretty far, but you’re going to see better results when you have your photo taken by someone else. Here's why:

Nine times out of ten, a good selfie would look even better if someone else took the photo for you. Whereas a bad selfie is just a bad photo, and shouldn't be in your profile. But the deepest reason why you want someone else to take your photos is because it displays social proof. If your profile is littered with selfies it looks like you’re always out by yourself and don’'t really have any friends. But if you get someone else to take a photo of you, it implies that while you’re out going to interesting places and doing interesting things, you’re doing so with other people, which is a really big green flag.

Remember, women are meeting a stranger off the internet on these apps. So you want to implement social proof whenever possible and the easiest way to do that is just to have someone else take your photo. It’s the bare minimum effort but it goes such a long way.

When I'm doing photo shoots with my profile makeover clients, we use a Sony A7 camera with an 85 mm lens, and based on my experience this is the gold standard for getting Tinder profile photos. The Sony A7 cameras have the best sensors for low light conditions but your photo is also only going to be as good as the lens that you use. 

The reason we use the 85mm lens is because it's the perfect focal length.

Did you know the lens you use on your camera will actually change the look of your face?

Different lenses can make your face appear wider or thinner, and what we’ve found is that the 85 mm lens perfectly replicates what the human eye sees. This means that it's going to take your photo in the most flattering light because it’s the perfect focal length. This lens also creates a nice blurry background behind you, which really makes you pop and stand out and look your best in these photos.

If you don’t have the money to spend on a profile makeover, you can also get really good-quality photos with just a phone. I recommend getting the newest iPhone you possibly have access to and shooting your photos in portrait mode.

Portrait mode does a really good job of replicating the 85 mm lens. It captures you in a really flattering light and it blurs out the background to give your photos an extra pop.

Even with my profile makeover clients, I still take a couple iPhone photos in portrait mode just so their profile doesn't look too polished and gives off more of a natural candid energy. 

Tip #4: Use dynamic poses.

I see it time and time again… Guys go on a photo shoot they have these really fancy cameras and they're still not getting matches. They ask themselves, “Why am I not getting any results on these dating apps?”

It's because they look awkward on camera. Most guys do the default pose, the tourist pose. Where you're standing with your shoulders square, facing the camera, hands at your sides, and awkwardly smiling, like you're saying cheese and your mom's trying to get a photo of you at Disney Land.

The easiest way to pose dynamically is to turn your feet 45° from the camera, that way you have one shoulder closer to the camera, and one shoulder further away. From there you just want to create natural bends in your limbs. One of the easiest ways to do this is to put your hand in your pocket with your thumb sticking out or rub your hands together like you’re applying hand sanitizer.

You also want to get a variety of shots in these dynamic poses; that way you're not settling for just one photo.

So when you are getting your photo taken, do some where you're looking at the camera, some where you're looking away, some where you're smiling, some where you're not smiling, some with sunglasses on some, and some with sunglasses off.

The greater the variety of photos you have taken of yourself, the more options you have.

So instead of settling for the least crappy photo, you're putting yourself in a way more advantageous position.

Okay so we've talked a lot about photo tips, but tip number five is super important and it has nothing to do with photos. It has to do with your bio and your prompts.

I see a common mistake of guys pouring their heart and soul into their bios or using cringy formatted bios about seductively whispering a foreign language into her ear and putting handcuffs on her…

Bro, you're trying way too hard with your bio. So avoid these cringy bios or super long paragraphs.

When it comes to your bios and your prompts, you want to use what I would call the hot boy bio.

I've had my girlfriends swipe through apps and look at all the top men's profiles and there's one thing they all have in common. They keep their bios and prompts short and sweet. So instead of writing a giant paragraph or telling your life story, use a funny, playful, or interesting one-liner.

That's right, all you need is one line. No more, no less.

For example, my Tinder profile says, “I probably have more tattoos than you,” and women are constantly messaging me first asking about this bio because it creates curiosity and gives them a reason to swipe right and ask me a question. Whereas if I included a paragraph writing everything about myself, they'd have no reason to swipe right and get to know me.

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