Your profile is one of the two key elements that will determine if a person emails you on an online dating service (the other is photo - see next tip). Thus it's important to make sure that your profile is lively, fun, and positive. Avoid negatives (I'm lonely, I can't believe I'm doing this) at all costs. Examine other profiles and determine what about it makes you more interested or less interested. Also be yourself and write a detailed profile of all your intrests, so that people will take time and read a well made up profile. Then in turn you will have many messages to read and people to get to know to find your one and only soulmate.