Zemanta does not appear to be working correctly

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  arkitekt878 · Member · Jun 25, 2012 at 8:57 am

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  I participate in the Weekly Photo Challenge organised by WordPress and after have written my post I use Zemanta to find related links (mainly others taking part in the challenge) before publishing. Last week Zemanta found very few links using the search term “weekly photo challenge”, normally I would see about 30 to 40. This week Zemanta is finding nothing and doesn’t appear to be recommending any new links, no matter what search term I use.

  I see there are a few posts recently expressing problems with Zemanta but none seem to be like this.

  Is anyone else having problems and have you found a workaround?

  Mike

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 25, 2012 at 9:01 am

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  Check your virus protection: it might be blacklisting Zemanta.

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  arkitekt878 · Member · Jun 25, 2012 at 9:22 am

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  I’ve just done that. It’s not my anti-virus protection, but thanks for the suggestion.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 25, 2012 at 9:28 am

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  Then try disengaging Zemanta, doing a cache and cookie clear, restart, and then re-enable.

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  arkitekt878 · Member · Jun 25, 2012 at 11:30 am

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  That’s not worked either. I’m going to add Zemanta as an extension to Chrome and see if that works….

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  arkitekt878 · Member · Jun 25, 2012 at 11:41 am

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  I’ve just downloaded the extension and enabled it. I’m editing a post in WordPress. Now I assume I have to right-click to use the Zemanta extension but there’s no sign of it in the menu.

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  arkitekt878 · Member · Jun 25, 2012 at 12:06 pm

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  An Update:

  I’m talking about the Zemanta that comes with WordPress, rather than the Chrome Extension.

  Zemanta is working after a fashion. When I create a new post I am given recommended links and related articles which are sort of relevant to my post. The media gallery from Zemanta also updates. However if I ask Zemanta to find me a specific topic, such as, “Weekly Photo Challenge” or any other topic for that matter, it goes through the motions but the media gallery and related articles just do not update.

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  arkitekt878 · Member · Jul 21, 2012 at 5:14 pm

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  This has still not been resolved. Last week it was updating and I was seeing lots of related links. This week it just does not seem to want to update..

  Is anyone else having a problem with Zemanta?

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  zemanta · Member · Jul 23, 2012 at 7:18 am

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  Hi!

  Sorry for the late response. We have had some issues last week but should be resolved since Friday. Can you try searching for something again?

  Thanks!
  Rok from Zemanta

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  arkitekt878 · Member · Jul 23, 2012 at 7:36 am

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  That’s much better. My search term was “Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside”, fourteen related articles were highlighted. I would have expected more but it’s a start. Thank you for resolving the problem