Digital Point Forums hits 100,000 members
This milestone seems to have gone largely unnoticed in the SEO blogosphere but the DP forums have indeed hit 100,000 members this month.
I’ve been a member of the forum for years now and haven’t been posting there as much recently for a number of reasons.
The main reason is that so many of the members seem fixated by learning the secrets to SEO and tying to scam their way to the top.
If DP was to start an organic SEO school it would turn the entire industry on its head.
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Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Branded3, a Leeds SEO & Digital Agency specialising in SEO, Web Design, Development & Social Media.
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I’ve pretty much given up on DP. There’s far too many spammers and scammers floating around on there to make it even a somewhat reputable forum.
I’m using it too, although Jeremy has a point there. But you still can find some interesting topics from time to time.
I was wondering one thing. How old is this forum? Does anybody have any idea?
A member since 2004 at DigitalPoint Forums, but as said by Jemery Steele too much spammers.
I’ve enjoyed reading the digitalpoint forums, but when the Indian invasion started I’ve hold back a little.
Congrats on Shawn for building such a big forum.
@Mike, the forums started March the 4th, 2004.
In the past year many frequent top posters left the forum. I’ve seen several ‘fights’ among users. That’s negative publicity for the digitalpoint forums.
At the moment I see alot of ‘quick’ buck users, too many questions about how to gain top rankings without doing anything and make much money.
I hope things will improve. In the mean time I visit totalwebtalk.com a lot latetly.
I’ve joined this forum 3 weeks ago, and I like it. I like the fact that has a lot of members. If I have a question I’m getting an answer really fast. There are some spammers/scammers, but there are also a lot of high quality people there.
That is absolutely great. I recently joined digital points forum and it is great.
DP was great when I first started but I haven’t been posting as often recently. There seem to be tons of spammers and scammers around nowadays. Plenty of people are just posting meaningless comments to pad their post counts so they can sell their signature links. Quite often the advice I get is meaningless or overly simplistic. At least I get a response on their forum though!
And only 85 % of them are spammers and scammers…
I have learn so much from that forum. You still get some very good post here and there.
i just joined dp forums after i stop using webmasterworld too much infighting i hope the sames not true at dp.
The mods there are corrupt, they take bribes to remove accounts and the lie saying they have multiple accounts.
I hope things will improve. Its really hard for building such a big forum.