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Are DMOZ and Alexa the same?

Discussion in 'Directories' started by jeff2, Nov 12, 2009.

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    I have eventually being listed in DMOZ and I assumed that DMOZ and the Alexa directory were the same, is this true?. If not how does one get listed on Alexa?. I get a Alexa spider every day but I cannot see my site listed.
     
    jeff2, Nov 12, 2009 IP
  2. pipes

    pipes Prominent Member

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    Im not aware that they are the same.

    Two separate entities from what im aware.
     
    pipes, Nov 12, 2009 IP
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    CReed Prominent Member

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    Alexa's directory utilizes DMOZ dump but orders the listings by popularity according to Alexa. If Alexa updates their directory, you should eventually see your site there as well.
     
    CReed, Nov 12, 2009 IP
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    jeff2 Peon

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    Thanks for the reply, I will keep an eye on the Alexa directory listings and see when I my site appears. Please advise in the forum to talk about Alexa and sites linking ?.
     
    jeff2, Nov 12, 2009 IP
  5. Nima

    Nima Well-Known Member

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    #5
    completely separate.

    Alexa is for profit, DMOZ is not
     
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    #6
    Both are different. Dmoz is good directory Web site and alexa is search engine.
     
    otcmarketbulls, Nov 13, 2009 IP
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    kapesnik Well-Known Member

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    #7
    they are separate
     
    kapesnik, Nov 13, 2009 IP
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    alistair80 Well-Known Member

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    #8
    Both are owned by two different companies: Alexa by Amazon and dMoz is part of Netscape...(AOL)
     
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    faceblogger Guest

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    #9
    They are not same
     
    faceblogger, Nov 14, 2009 IP
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    Ibn Juferi Prominent Member

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    #10
    No they are not the same.
     
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    kingofking Prominent Member

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    #11
    Both are not the same buddy.
     
    kingofking, Nov 14, 2009 IP
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    #12
    Alexa is a search engine which monitors traffic of each website whereas DMOZ is an open source directory... Both are important in an internet business... :)
     
    johnny.litson, Nov 14, 2009 IP
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    Nima Well-Known Member

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    i didnt know that about DMOZ. i thought it was stand alone
     
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    metros Notable Member

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    #14
    Alexa is a website-rank system based users
    Dmoz is open-directory based volunteer editors.

    The only thing in common is that Alexa use the Dmoz DB (Just different order)
     
    metros, Nov 14, 2009 IP
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    robjones Notable Member

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    Creed is correct. Alexa utilizes the Dmoz database, but it is not a live connection, it's updated periodically via RDF dump.
    You can verify that by viewing the attribution at the bottom of the Alexa Directory pages.

    Alexa is owned by Amazon, and Dmoz was initially a standalone but was purchased by Netscape which was in turn purchased by AOL.
    AOL staff pays for the Dmoz servers and supplies some staff functions, but the database is maintained by the volunteers.
    If a site is entered into Dmoz it will enter the Alexa database when it next is renewed.

    Here's a screenshot of the attribution (see green rectangle).

    [​IMG]
     
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    merlinseo Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for this info, I wasn't aware
    Just a question out of curiosity if thats the case then Alexa still shows the traffic for NON-DMOZ Listed as well
     
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    Alexa showing their stats for almost every existed domain, Nothing to do with Dmoz.
     
    metros, Nov 15, 2009 IP
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    And if you pay attention, Google directory takes all the database of DMOZ...
     
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    #19
    Indeed, Many websites use Dmoz
     
    metros, Nov 15, 2009 IP
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    #20
    both are totally different.
     
    whitespparow, Nov 15, 2009 IP
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