My guess is word of mouth...people suggested this site to other webmasters, and it just grew from there.
I reckon it was an unsaturated niche when DP was created - now every man and his dog are trying to become the next DP making loads and loads of webmaster forums.
Thats what i thought Mikey, i am not sure when the first idea came along to produce this forum however it must of been a long while back before your aunt your uncle and your grandma new how to web design if you follow. These days everyone knows how to set up a forum they pop up everywhere many markets are saturated, i wish i was so focused on webmastering back in the 1990's when four letter.com names were still available and markets were not as saturated :'(
Absolutely, unfortunately it's no longer as good as it was back then, but every once in a while you learn something that makes you go ahh.
Ahh yes i never thought of that, Blogmaster considering you have 24,000 posts which excuse my language "holy crap" thats a lot, do you know when dp started?
Sad to say, Blogmaster, that seems to be the truth. A few years ago the forum discussions seemed to be chockful of helpful, informative posts. Nowadays, that seems to be less common — but still frequent enough to keep me coming back.
I've started a forum with my team from Search Feature. Will see how it grows. Just starting really slow for now trying to keep the noise out. I'm quite sure some other good forums will come up ... in time. Aaron Wall has started a paid forum and I've heard that one is going really well. There are a couple of private forums that are really good, but not for seo. Seems that in the future there will be a need for paid access in order to keep people out who really have no interest in being productive.
If I'm not wrong this is 243rd Thread p) about the same topic ... please search before u post a thread