I logged in today to see lots of my hubs have the bad link sign next to them, but all the links are fine on what i have checked.
This has just been over night, i had zero before and now about 30 hubs say they have bad links?
Shall I just leave it? is this a bug?
This has happened to me for the past week on 6 hubs. Weird.
When I get more than just a few "false positives" I email admin about it so they can take a look.
Sometimes it's due to the checker on our end, sometimes it's a communication lag they can't do anything about.
The broken link checker simply observes the http status code that the URL returns when we test it. If it's 400 (bad request), 404 (not found), 500 (internal server error) we consider the link to be broken.
It looks like many of your broken links were amazon links. Most likely they had some technical issues that caused those particular urls to return 404 for a time. You can go through and retest them on broken links page yourself, or just wait. They should clear up on there own over the next few days (we try and test every broken in a published hub every 7 days).
I've had the occasional link here or there that was mis-marked as bad. But your situation sounds like a lot of them -- unless they're all to the same domain and it's gone down. Why don't you drop a note to team@hubpages.com.
Yes. I have had two so far today. No doubt the mark is being applied too hastily.
It will be 96 in the morning. I have tangled with far too many Christians this weekend - they will be voting me down en masse.
I know HP says that would carry little weight, but it seems to me that when I zing 'em, they get even. Could be coincidental, of course.
I noticed one that popped up just a minute ago from YouTube.
When I clicked the link it's working fine.
by Kate Swanson 11 years ago
My account is showing several broken links which are not broken. They are all links to other Hubs.
by Novascotiamiss 11 years ago
I tried to link up one of my recipe hubs to a new hub and it keeps coming up as a bad link. The bad link is the following hub:<link snipped>
by Sherri 12 years ago
This is a great feature HP has...flagging Hubs where links within those Hubs are broken.However, just in the last 20 minutes, four of my Hubs showed on My Account page as having broken links. Only one did. (As in, there was no yellow text when looking at those Hubs in edit mode, for three of...
by Dolores Monet 12 years ago
I have what appears to be way too many broken links - the links are to my own hubs. Testing the links, I see that the little link thingy on the accounts page seems to be off, as those hubs are still there. Anyone else have this problem?I clicked the button for a retest.
by AMAZING THINKER 10 years ago
I was wondering if the traffic will increase if we link to other hubbers with hubs on related topics. Will google value the links from within HP ie .hubpages.com?? Without links our hubs are never going to rank on search engine results, so why don't we try this. A lot of people write on similar...
by Wayne Tully 12 years ago
57..... better do them after I've waited until my other hubs get unpublished......There's a rat in my kitchen what am I gonna do?......
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