Mostly webmasters visit this site. A higher percentage of webmasters have the Alexa toolbar installed vs. normal users.. therefore webmaster related sites will always rank disproportionately high on Alexa. This site rocks, regardless.
This weekend CNet's News.com ran an article about the business model behind this message board. That could explain the really high Alexa Rating. I know I joined this forum as result. I have admit the advice is good. The community is good. Who would have thought that a message board could be getting so much attention in this Blog eat Blog world.
Also think about the pages one would visit. No one would visit one page. Instead they would visit many pages also bolstering your ranking. Skinny
Yup, that article was originally from the NY Times. Quite a feat of PR! (public relations, not page rank) This board has been the place to be for quite a while. I think it grew mostly out of Shawn's viral toolset that he offers to other webmasters. "Put this tool on your site!" was a fantastic idea.. then he has the 5 latest topics from the forum on those pages = instant forum growth.
Good point about the Alexa toolbar. The forum doesn't have THAT many online users relative to other sites I work/frequent (800-1200 at a time)...
Well this forum is only a small part of digitalpoint.com (and one of the newest parts of digitalpoint.com)... the webmaster tools are more popular than the forum by far (43,000+ registered users of this one alone... http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/).
this forum is just a subdomain. DP got some nice tools that many webmaster are directing their traffic to from their site, such as the sandbox