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        <description>Creating your profile, searching and making dating connections with other singles -- that's what this section is all about. How do you write a personals profile that attracts potential dates? How do you pick the right photos? How do you make connections? You'll find answers here and great ideas for Internet dating on Yahoo! Personals.</description>
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            <title>Online Dating: Increase Your Personals Profile Responses</title>
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            <description>You're dating online because you want dates -- and not just dates, but the right dates. If you are not getting the responses you want, it's time to make some updates to your profile. With just five easy tweaks, you can significantly increase both the quantity and quality of your profile responses.</description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:48:32 -0800</pubDate>
        <dc:author>Liz H. Kelly<br />Special to Yahoo! Personals</dc:author>
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            <title>Online Dating: How to Grab a Woman's Attention</title>
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            <description>In all my years of coaching men how to succeed in online dating, the one thing that always amazes me is the amount of men who still cut and paste a canned opener and send it to a woman.</description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:41:12 -0800</pubDate>
        <dc:author>David Wygant<br />Special to Yahoo! Personals</dc:author>
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            <title>Top 10 Dating Personals Profile Mistakes</title>
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            <description>You've just invested your hard-earned dollars in an online dating site. After a few hours you have what you believe is the perfect online profile. You kick back, waiting for the prospects to roll in. Day after day goes by -- but still your inbox is empty.</description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:11:31 -0800</pubDate>
        <dc:author>Jeff Cohen<br />Special to Yahoo! Personals</dc:author>
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            <title>6 Tips to Create a Better Online Dating Profile</title>
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            <description>You need to bring your dynamic personality into your online profile. When writing your profile, think about everything you're writing like a conversation. If the conversation you're writing would be interesting in person, then you've done a good job of profile writing.</description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 23:04:15 -0800</pubDate>
        <dc:author>David Wygant</dc:author>
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            <title>Dating Challenge: Crossing the 'Friend Zone'</title>
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            <description>You've had feelings for your friend for a while and you're worried about crossing the line and ruining the friendship. That's not really true, of course, but that's what you keep telling yourself so you can justify not putting yourself on the line and risking rejection.</description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 01:03:50 -0800</pubDate>
        <dc:author>Andrea Syrtash, ONDating<br />Special to Yahoo! Personals</dc:author>
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            <title>Buying the Best Chocolate for Your Valentine</title>
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            <description>Buying the best chocolate for Valentine's Day (or any other occasion) almost never happens by accident. Learning to recognize fine-quality chocolate isn't difficult, it's not nearly as expensive as learning about wine, and it's just as much fun. With a little direction and some practice tasting chocolate (tough, I know, but I'm pretty sure you're up to the challenge), you'll be able to wow your date or your mate with your newfound chocolate expertise.</description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:22:20 -0800</pubDate>
        <dc:author>Clay Gordon<br/>Special to Yahoo! Personals</dc:author>
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            <title>Ugh, It's Another Valentine's Day and I'm Still Single</title>
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            <description>So, you are not in a relationship at the moment and Valentine's Day seems to be putting a big red spotlight on your singleness. Here are some practical and empowering things you can do to tone down that &quot;ugh&quot; feeling.</description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:42:09 -0800</pubDate>
        <dc:author>Caroline Presno<br/>Special to Yahoo! Personals</dc:author>
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            <title>Building the Perfect Personals Profile</title>
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            <description>I answered the phone last week, and without even a hello my friend barked, &quot;He looked NOTHING like his photo and was about a decade older!&quot;</description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:22:33 -0800</pubDate>
        <dc:author>Andrea Syrtash, ONDating<br />Special to Yahoo! Personals</dc:author>
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            <title>7 Steps to Dating Success Using the &quot;American Idol&quot; Approach</title>
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            <description>&quot;American Idol&quot; has America falling in love with it each season. The show finds amazing talent using a system of recruiting, screening and evaluating potential superstars. Why not tap into the same methods to find your Mr. or Ms. Right?</description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:14:21 -0800</pubDate>
        <dc:author>Krista Bloom, Ph.D.<br/>Special to Yahoo! Personals</dc:author>
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            <title>8 Steps to New Love: Your 2008 Dating Plan</title>
            <link>http://dating.personals.yahoo.com/singles/gettingstarted/6782/8-steps-to-new-love-your-2008-dating-plan/</link>
            <description>Change your love life by following a whole new dating plan and committing right now, right here to find your new love. At this moment your chances of meeting the love of your life could be better than ever! New singles are coming on the scene all the time. In fact, around 16 million people are now using online dating in the U.S. You have a lot of partners to choose from.</description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:00:43 -0800</pubDate>
        <dc:author>Diana Kirschner, Ph.D.<br />Special to Yahoo! Personals</dc:author>
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