How did Digital Point become so big?

Digital point rocks. Because of DP, I am not visiting other forums... Post a question here and after 5 minutes, you'll have the answer.

You got almost all the answer to your question here.

Try to advertise on various forums, Contact other owners in your niche.

 

It's become so big because the respected owner, the earning opportunities, the press, the low amount of spam, the sites design, the friendlyness of the community her, the niche, and even more things have helped to make it what it is today.

 

In the real estate business they say that there are three keys to successful property investment: location, location, and location.

In any website business, there likewise are three keys to success: promotion, promotion, promotion.

Unless you work hard every day to get the word out and drive new members to your forum, you are focusing on the wrong things.

JR

 

I bet it involves a lot of determination, sleepless nights and networking.

 

I'm interested in knowing what break they got at the start tho to just get the ball rolling. So often in many of my business website ventures I keep to a stage in growth where it is very difficult to break through.

 

I agree, i have spent the last 3/4 weeks solidly promiting my site, adding it to directories etc, and already im noticing an increase in activity. The site is the largest christian site hosted by proboards, and i have just paid a small fee to get my url changed so its no longer the free proboards.com url but now my offical url - http://worldwidechristiansonline.co.uk

Does anyone know any good sites to submite my forum to, both free and paid?

Thanks for everyones comments so far

 

A. It's forum setup rocks, neat and organized

B. There's a crap load of webmasters out there. Givem a half way decent place to sell stuff and they'll visit

 

bad karma buddy
on a more serious note , this forum gets really googled well , and the webmaster mustve done lot of seo work. i think thats their matra.

 

I agree with others. Its really a great technic which has been implemented by the dp owner, moreover, the demand of dp discussions make others to join here and keep their business opportunities on. And definitely Business opportunities are the basic demand here which made this DP forum great with the usage of adsense revenue sharing too.

 

Shawn had wonderful viewership on this site because of his popular tools then he added forums to provide support to tool users .. and also relaxed environment of the forums not strict like others.
This created space for digitalpoint in webmaster forums niche and many users of other forums started to come here ...

 

1. get a freakin' paid host ($10 a month is not that much $$$ - I'm 16, I can do it, I'm sure you can)
2. get a freakin' domain
3. get a freakin' good design

Make everything freakin' better

lol

 

It's responsiveness definitely rocks!

 

I have a domain and a new desing - http://worldwidechristiansonline.co.uk

 

And what does this have to do with the thread topic?

Spam!!

 

He is the OP, and was wondering DP's secret so he could apply it to his own site. After taking some advice he is giving us an update.

 

patience,destination and determination three things in business.

yea your site is hosted in proboard this is the reason.
as a visitor i would think "oh this site is hosted in other board so may be down anytime i don't trust it"
don't get sad but its better to host on your own domain to be like DP.

 

Digital Point sounds like a mountain peak where you would go to get help with techy issues from gurus. Only I vote for a skylift, my old legs can only make so many trips per day

 

Lol,here is one of those promotion skills,Shawn started a thread years ago

Now Get Paid To Use This Forum (no joke)
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=519

 

Wow that's really huge, how did you get all these member to sign up.