Is it best to only use the links suggested with the suggest link tool? Or is it a good idea to?

Don't link to a hub that you have not read. It could be below your standards and unrelated. It is better to link to hubs that you yourself value.

Too often the script relates like tags do, but to a hub that is totally unrelated. I agree wholeheartedly with jonihnj.

I would say the latter. I suppose the link tool leads to related topics (from a computer script perspective), but the links all too often lead to topics that have little and often nothing to do with what I'm writing. It frustrates the reader to be taken away from a page they were reading to come across a topic they could care less about - sort of a bait and switch.

That's why I use links selectively - visiting the page link suggested and determining for myself if it's related to my topic. It also helps me find my way to interesting HubPages.

The latter mostly, sir. Though I've been guilty of using the suggest link tool and found some great hubs related to mine that way.

The link suggesting tool leads to related topic. You can link to your own hub if you want to.

I think your outbound links could be better used on content you have read first and maybee even created to drive more links to your sites.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.