I was complaining yesterday about the login process that Contenture uses on its member sites to gain visitors. Rather than just complain, I thought I would give some constructive response to their request for feedback, which is coincidentally one of the topic areas that I like to study on this site.
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I've been struggling with Contenture for the past couple days. I think it's a great idea: users pay a nominal fee (starting from about $6) to gain membership in the Contenture network. Whenever a user visits a Contenture network site, that site gets a portion of the money contributed, and the visiting user gets any number of perks, including an ad-free visit or access to exclusive content. Anyone can easily add themselves to the Contenture network by dropping some javascript code into their site's footer, like I did. But there have been a few issues.
Yesterday, the network script couldn't even detect whether a paying user was a member. That has since been corrected, but there are a number of other odd things that leave me wondering whether the Contenture folks did any prototyping of their system.
For example, my biggest complaint about the system right now (assuming that I'm even getting paid visitors, which I can't tell by looking at my account on the Contenture site) is that there is no clear way to direct network members to log in to receive their benefits. If a person visits my site and is a member, but they're using a public computer and have not logged into Contenture, there should be a link on my site they can click on to log them in. Currently, the only way to associate my site with Contenture is to forward them to my affiliate link (if they sign up via that link, I make a dollar). The affiliate page on the Contenture site doesn't have a login form or link at all. This doesn't make any sense if my visitor is already a user. Worse yet, there's no way for a user, after logging in, to get back to my site.
Another problem with Contenture is that there is currently no visible tracking of the visitors that hit your site who are members. Fortunately, I've discovered a way to track that using Contenture's sister site, CetClicky.
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