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A few things that matter more for dating sites than general SEO advice suggests:
1) City or location pages only work if there are real local profiles behind them. Hundreds of "dating in [city]" pages with no members behind them look like doorway pages, and Google tends to drop them in bulk.
2) Profile pages are mostly thin and similar to each other. Put the weight on a handful of strong category and guide pages and link to those, rather than pushing thousands of profiles through the sitemap.
3) Bing and DuckDuckGo hide a lot of adult-leaning dating sites under SafeSearch Moderate, so check visibility with SafeSearch off before assuming a penalty.
If you hire someone, ask for examples of dating or adult sites they actually grew. Generic SEO playbooks don't transfer well to this niche.
 
Adding to the points above, the fastest way I have seen dating sites earn real authority is original data. You already sit on anonymised member behaviour, so turn it into small studies, things like which weekday gets the most first messages, average reply times by age group, or how opening lines affect response rates. Journalists and lifestyle bloggers love that kind of angle around Valentine's Day, summer and the January dating spike, and those mentions bring the editorial links that thin profile pages never will. Pair it with a proper advice section written by someone who knows the space, covering first date safety, profile writing and scam warning signs. Those guides rank for informational searches, build trust with new visitors, and give you pages worth linking to internally from your signup flow.
 
whats the niche and language? a general dating site isnt going to rank for the big dating terms anytime soon, the big brands own those. niche + non english keywords is where a new site can actually get traffic
 
News, trends and gossip too are great potential for surges in new keywords research queries.

For example this past weeks there was a surge in researching for Megan Fox new leaks in google trends.

It was because of Megan Fox launching her own channel in subs the new OF website.

Sometimes I experiment with google trends to see what trending search in some niches and when I typed the keyword "nudes" and explored the related queries of that week I found out a sudden explosion of researches for an actress name I've never seen before...

After a fast Perplexity research I found out it was a mainstream actress in some trending Netflix show.

People were trying to find leaks and nudes of this person just after watching episodes of a show.

You can bring new free traffic using nsfw, adult and adjacent events, trends, and gossip news using curiosity then promote your website or forum to that new crowd using banners or direct CTA messages with every article/blog post or shorts/reels of these trending events combined with a link-in-bio.
 

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