Cyber-Dating Expert, the dating advice site created by Julie Spira as a lifestyle destination for online daters, has been nominated as a finalist in About.com's 2011 Readers' Choice Awards for best dating blog.

Created in 2008, Cyber-Dating Expert was launched to support the online dating industry and singles looking for love online. Popular features include the Cyber Love Story of the Week and the Peril of the Week, where singles and couples share their online dating stories.

"It is truly an honor to be voted as a finalist in the Top 5 Dating blogs by the readers," said Spira. Cyber Dating Expert gives me an opportunity to engage with singles who need guidance in their quest to find love on the Web."

Spira, an early adopter of the Internet, created her first online dating profile in 1994. She personally went on hundreds of dates and memorialized her story in her bestselling book, The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online. She is the host of Ask the Cyber Dating Expert Show, where she interviews Internet Dating Site CEOs and bestselling relationship authors.

Offline, Spira helps singles find love online as a dating coach. Her irresistible coaching programs including creating online dating profiles for singles as well as personal searches as a digital matchmaker. 

Spira is a featured dating expert on Date Daily, eHarmony, GenConnect, JDate, Match.com, YourTango, and Zoosk. She writes about the marriage of love and technology on Huffington Post and is a frequent guest in the media on the subject of online dating.

Voting will take place through March 8, 2011 at midnight EST on About.com's site.