Is anyone else having trouble with the "suggest link" function on Hub Pages?

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   RebuildingJobsposted 12 years ago

   Is anyone else having trouble with the "suggest link" function on Hub Pages?
   
   I am still having trouble after 2 months with afixing and changing links of "suggest links." It simply isn't working.

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   WD Curry 111posted 12 years ago

   Sometimes it gets busy or there are sunspots, or something. I have weak wifi, and it takes it awhile to "light up" after I click it. Give it a minute or two and try again. If you click it twice before it goes hot it gets confused.

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      WD Curry 111posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Who voted me down? I haven't had any problems with it (yesterday or today).Sure you can add links other ways, but   part of the idea of the feature is to recommend other hubbers hubs. Are you going to look up other's work on related topics? No.

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   cascolyposted 12 years ago

   it wasnt working at all yesterday for 'my hubs' searches - even though it would normally show 5 or more possibles - but it asccepted the urls for those hubs when i pasted them in

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   KDuBarry03posted 12 years ago

   I've been having problems with them the past couple days. There is a different way to add links onto your page. When working with a hub section, you can hyperlink a selection of words if the suggest links button doesn't work.

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   rjsadowskiposted 12 years ago

   I have been having the same problem for two months. I keep waiting for HubPages to fix it.

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   DRG Da Real Grincposted 12 years ago

   I am not having a problem. The suggest link can be tricky but just know that when yo begin the process you must manually highlight (as if to copy) a word or phrase and THEN it's will suggest a link.

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      WD Curry 111posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Great point. Google Chrome has been weird for a few days as well. Maybe that's it.

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      cascolyposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      that's how it worked in the past - last few days it couldnt find anything even when my hubs had the selected word in their title [i've not changed my IE browser]

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      WannaB Writerposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I did highlight the words that should have brought my hub with those words in the title up. The only suggestions available were Amazon products. I did use Chrome, but I always use Chrome and it has worked fine in the past.

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      UnnamedHaraldposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      It's not working for me (using IE9 or Firefox) and I used to use it all the time.

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   Jeannieinabottleposted 12 years ago

   I've been having a problem with it for weeks now.  It just constantly says it is "working" but nothing ever appears on the screen.  I was starting to wonder if it was just me.

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      Thelma Albertsposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I had the same problem this morning. Nothing appears at all so I´d just leave it.

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   LillyGrillzitposted 12 years ago

   Yes. I have sat for 15 minutes with the message box saying, "working". But it does not work.
   
   The only way I can get a link in a Hub is by manually placing it.
   
   Thanks for asking this question, I thought it was me.

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   calculus-geometryposted 12 years ago

   I only used it once and the suggested articles were not very good suggestions, so I haven't used it since.  Though it might take longer, a better way to get hub suggestions is to use the following Google search phrase:
   
   "your keyword phrase here" site:hubpages.com
   
   That will pull up hubs that have the phrase you are targeting, or you can leave the quotes off the broaden your search.  Google seems to find more relevant articles than the Hubpages link suggester.

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    caitlyncookposted 12 years ago

    I am! Maybe there is a glitch in the system right now.

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       cascolyposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       something has changed - it used to work fine - select a word and click on suggest link and it would show related hubs - you could choose either 'my hubs' or hubs overall.

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    WannaB Writerposted 12 years ago

    Yes. I tried to link to one of my hubs last night from a hub in process and there were no suggestions. There should have been. I had to insert the link manually.

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    UnnamedHaraldposted 12 years ago

    Yes. I can't get it to work using IE9 or Firefox. This has been going on for many weeks now.

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       KDuBarry03posted 12 years agoin reply to this

       More than likely it must be issues with the website if you are using two different internet browsers. Users of google chrome, like me, have to heed caution because there may be issues with separate internet protection from your Norton and Chrome.

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    Faceless39posted 12 years ago

    I reported this problem 6 days ago, here:  http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/100585
    
    Apparently it's a problem with Internet Explorer, Firefox, as well as Chrome.
    
    They're diligently working to fix it.  Hopefully soon!

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    RebuildingJobsposted 12 years ago

    Thanks for all your input. Yesterday, I saw someone had asked the same question a few days ago and someone recommended using a different browser. So, I used Mozilla Fox Fire and the suggest links DID work! Hurray! It's interesting that HubPages itself hasn't given an explanation for the problem. To those who have tried a different browser and still can't get the "suggest links" to work, I have no other suggestion. What else can a person do if he/she cannot get the suggest links to work? Any other suggestions?

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       cascolyposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       after 2 days of not working, it started working again for me - using IE the whole time

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