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How Do I get People To Join My Group on DeviantART?

Why can't I get people to join my group?

  • I just started a group and I've been waiting for people to join and I even joined yahoo group of groups to try get help but still nothing has worked. Does anyone have a solution to this problem? Is this whole group thing just a waste of time and should I rather delete it as it seems to be another waste of server space that will get flushed down the loo with geocities. Here's the link if you you need to assess my group http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/high-tech_experts/

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    You have to make it attractive to others. Start by making your site look sharp. Choose custom colors a good photo and welcoming message. Click edit beside description on your cover page, scroll down and you will find where to do all that. Send an email to all your friends and relatives with the URL pasted in explaining the group and inviting them to join and asking them to forward the message to their friends and relatives asking the same. Periodically post a message asking the members reminding them that new members are always welcome and ask your members for suggestions. You could also start a group n Facebook and promote your Yahoo group on that site. Do not allow members access to the member's list, if you do and a member gets annoyed at you they could try and get them to join another group or spam the members Add moderators as your group grows and ask them for more input. HTML links to other sites which are pertinent to your group add color and interest to your cover so add them by pasting the codes in just below your welcome message and email their webmasters asking them to do the same. You can also add a hit counter to your cover page. To find them just do a search for “free hit counters”, there are lots available. Put first posts on moderation that way you won’t get spammers. If a member’s first post is spam, ban them right there and then. also if a member is causing problems ban them fast you don't need the aggravation.One thing to keep in mind it isn’t necessarily the number of members your group has but the participation which makes a group interesting. Good luck, take your time and it will grow,

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Probably because no one can find it. Yahoo changed their group search recently to require a + sign between multiple words and even then the words must be adjacent. Since this search protocol has been obsolete for quite a while finding groups with a specific topic has become almost impossible. Mostly now no matter what you put in you just come up with porn.

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No new group gained a ton of members over night. Regardless of the appearance, it has to be a topic people would want to join and one must also consider how many other groups are out there of that same topic. I personally would change the category- there is hardly groups there and it's alot of clicks to get there. I'd put it in Programming Languages and skip the PHP.

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Try changing the name to "The Big Bang Gang"

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