23 Feb 2020, 4:35 am
23 Feb 2020, 10:35 am
Mona Pereth wrote:
Magna wrote:
I will let you know how it goes, Mona. There seem to be some issues with the meetup.com filtering. When I would search for my group without logging in to my meetup account, as if I was someone just browsing, my group wouldn't come up at all when selecting my city. Even when I expanded to within 25 miles of my city...still nothing. It was only after I expanded the range to within 50 miles of my city did my group come up. I emailed meetup.com about that and they said change the zip code to a different one in the city. I did that and that didn't seem to help. Now nothing comes up even if I expand the search to within 100 miles. 
On Meetup.com, did you select topics for your group? If you have not done so already, you should select a big bunch of topics, many of which will be redundant.
For my group I selected all of the following: "Support Group", "Autism Support Group", "Adult Aspies", "Neurodiversity", "Autism", "For Adults On Autism Spectrum", "Asperger's Support Group", "Adults with Asperger's Syndrome", "ASD/Asperger Syndrome", "High-Functioning Autism", "Autism Spectrum Disorder", "Asperger Syndrome", "Autistic Adults", "Supporting social skills in aspergers adults".
I don't know if this will do anything for your specific problem.
Yes, meetup gives you keyword suggestions based on the topic or interest you type in and I selected probably 15 or more variations equal to or similar to the ones you suggest. I'm going to email meetup support this week to see if I can figure out the best way to work my group page for maximum exposure in my area.
For example, if I remember correctly, once you designate your group as private, you can't change it back to public. I believe this is the case because doing so after you have members would betray the privacy of said members and likely without authorization from them. Going private seems like something that should be done after a public site has a healthy number of members; I chose to go private at the outset.
I'm wondering if I can start a parallel public group to better advertise my group and then post the link in the public site to the private site asking people to join the private site. The public site will broadcast all information of upcoming meetings such as the location address which is what anyone looking to attend the meeting needs and which is blocked out completely on a "private site".
25 Feb 2020, 2:41 pm
