I have enjoyed a lot of the information that ChristianDatingWatchDog.com has put out there on the Christian Dating sites that we should be wary of.   God Bless “The Dog” for doing it.   I also enjoyed another site that I suspect he is responsible for at BigChurchDating.info ]

However, I’m a little disappointed and sketchy about the fact that both sites are registered with “domains by proxy” privacy protection and both sites feature identical error messages when you try to use the “Contact us” form.

I have some questions on why my client at SinglesofFaith.com is listed on the “Dog House” list (we feel in error) and would love to address it.   The current situation makes this impossible.

I can understand that taking a stand like this against some big money guys can generate a bit of a crap storm.   But I have to say, that I would give more credence to “The Dogs” opinion if the anonymity thing was out of the way.     At least in the case of BigChurch,  your message is spot on.   Why not be available to answer questions by email occassionally?  Or to respond to possible inaccuracies?  Some may think you are just taking shots at dating sites you don’t affiliate with.  (for the record, we’d love to have you in the program at SinglesofFaith - you’d do well)

Here’s the deal.  I want to chat with or have an email conversation with “The Dog”  - heck - I’d love to PodCast the conversation and shine some light on some folks.

So “Dog” let’s chat - my contact form works - or you can email me at wade [at] christianaffiliatemarketers.com

Let’s do some good work together man.

God Bless,

Wade

As I have discussed here time and time again,  “Christian” dating is a minefield of legitimate and illegitimate offers that target Christians.

Some are great and Christian in ownership and mission in vision like SinglesofFaith, ChristianCafe, CatholicMatch, etc and some like BigChurch are really flawed and shouldn’t be promoted by Christians to Christians.

A lot of Christian webmasters are still running BigChurch though because they either don’t know better or choose to look the other way for the cash.   Hey, I’ll admit it - they build a great landing page and they know the science of conversion… but they should.  They’re essentially a re-faced porn site that is veneered to appeal to Christians.

There are a couple of sites I like who play “watch dog” over the space and I really value what they bring to the table in terms of doing the research on corporate ownership of the “Christian” dating sites and giving people the straight scoop.   Then, today one of them really chapped my hide.

I saw SinglesofFaith listed as one of the sites not to work with due to “deceptive marketing practices.”  I beg to differ.  SOF is so legitimately Christian it’s ridiculous.  They absolutely should be listed with ChristianCafe and Single Christians Network as one of the “good guys”   I checked with Mike at SOF specifically on the types of marketing methods that were frowned on (bidding on competitor keywords) and was assured that this is not the case.

So- I attempted to contact the site owner through his contact form to get some clarification… hey - if my client has done something wrong, we’d like to fix it.   The “Contact us” form is broken.

Bottom line -  there is what we feel is incorrect negative info on the site up on the page and no way to get any feedback or get a changed noted and recommendation made.   ARGGGGH!

“Dog,” if you are out there and see this, please get in touch.  I love your site and want to be able to recommend you as the gold standard.  But we need to clear this up.
God Bless,

Wade Tonkin