A match occurs when someone swipes right on your dating profile, and you have already swiped right on theirs.
A like occurs when someone swipes right on your dating profile, and you are yet to swipe right on theirs.
It’s baffling to you to be receiving a decent amount of matches but almost no likes on a dating app.
There are a few reasons for this.
For one, you have a like limit.
Dating apps restrict the number of likes a person sends or receives to keep them from abusing the system.
Were a dating app to give its members unlimited likes, there would be so much indiscriminate liking of dating profiles, the app’s ability to connect compatible matches would be jeopardized.
This lowers the efficiency of a dating app’s algorithm, which leads to a loss of subscribers and a loss of business.
Guys have a much greater propensity to swipe right on dating profiles than women do.
As a guy, you are generally swiping right on dating profiles as fast as you are presented with a woman’s dating profile.
This means that women receive significantly more likes than guys do, being that they rarely swipe right as often as men do.
On your end, you almost have no likes.
On her end, she has a ton of likes.
Unless she has a premium account, she has no idea who has liked her dating profile or whether she has any interest in them.
Additionally, whenever she swipes right, she almost always gets a match, given that so many guys swipe right on every dating profile they are presented with on a dating app.
This slows her down, as her attention is now divided between addressing her matches, and swiping.
On top of this, women are much less likely to swipe right on dating profiles, which further decreases the chances that a guy who hasn’t already swiped right on her dating profile receives a like from her.
Percentage-wise, women like or swipe right on dating profiles in the low teens.
Keeping this in mind, don’t take it personally when you have almost no likes.
Loads of men have this complaint on dating apps.
Women on dating apps are much pickier than men are.
When you have almost no likes, your dating profile isn’t as visible.
This affects how many likes you get, as there aren’t that many women being presented with your dating profile in the first place.
For more visibility, use better photos.
Hire a professional photographer who specializes in dating app photos, and get some photos taken, most importantly, your primary photo, or headshot, as this is the first photo that a potential match sees.
A professional photographer with years of experience in taking dating app photos is well-versed on what types of photos attract the most attention.
Women aren’t as visual as men, but they are visual. Which means, they are drawn to dating profiles with attractive photos.
Once you have these attractive photos on your dating profile, a woman who is presented with your dating profile has a higher probability of liking it.
This compels an algorithm to make your dating profile more visible, which in turn, gets you a greater number of likes from women.