Miva MC: My Thoughts

I tried Miva’s new Monetization Center out last week. After hassling with the code and never really getting it to work properly, I gave up and just let it run for a few days. Here are my results:

• Their code shifts elements on my pages around messing up the design.
• For 5 days I haven’t been able to login to their reporting tool from any computer even though they say it works fine from their end.
• I set the CSS to display orange, but they would only show in black. They did send me a revised CSS that I never tried, but it should have worked out of the box.
• Their default CSS gets rid of the formatting on the links. (i.e. bold links become non-bold)
• In FireFox the page lags for several seconds while rendering the links.
• And the #1 reason I decided to stop my trial with Miva: Terrible earnings

Sorry Miva, you promised me a lot and I got very little in return. My account rep did a good job, but the technology just wasn’t up the par and the earnings were dismal to put it politely.