I think Alexa and Dmoz are completely different. To register a blog in Dmoz, you need to add listing. The whole process is described there just check. But to get activated takes a lot time
Why do you think that? Did you not notice that this thread was about the Alexa directory being the same as DMOZ. Did you look at the Alexa Directory and not notice that its a copy of DMOZ ... or did you just post in this thread without reading it first?
Are you another one of the fools that did not bother to read what this thread was about before posting? The thread is about the Alexa Directory!!!! IT IS A COPY OF DMOZ - they are the same! Why is that so hard to get? ... or did you also not bother to read the thread before posting in it to see what it was about? BTW - its not even a directory of Google. Google is just another one of the ~3000 or so sites (like Alexa), that use the DMOZ database
Have you actually read what this thread is about? How can you claim that they are different? The Alexa Directory is a copy of the DMOZ directory. ... that is what this thread is about!! How can you claim that they are entirely different, when one is a copy of the other. I don't get it!! Can you explain why you posted an answer without even knowing what this thread is about?
I think you're either speaking typing in a foreign language, not being clear enough or typing too fast.
yea, I must stop typing so fast as people just not getting it. This thread is a perfect example as to why Digitalpoint has such a bad reputation among professional SEO's and why none of them frequent here.
Hey Agent000 ! Those that have opinion should just state it and accept that other may have different opinions instead of trying to defend your own opinion to death. In my opinion; alexa uses an enhanced version of dmoz but again they are no EXACTLT the same and I already gave you an example that there is a domain in alexa directory but not in dmoz. Also I accept that you or anyone else may have a different opinion on this matter, that is it!!
BUT, its NOT an opinion! duh? For your benefit, here is the original post: Here is the alexa directory: http//www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Top Go to any category; try and submit a site....it takes you to DMOZ. How is that my opinion? That is a fact. Please tell us how this is an opinion. Click on submit a site in the Alexa Directory, it takes you to DMOZ (I typed this twice so you get it!) Perhaps you can explain why so many posting in this thread are getting it wrong. This is not a matter of opinion. Others have even posted screen shots in this thread. I have even typed slowly. Why are people continuing to post the nonsense?
Hi jeff2, Alexa does not have a directory as such, they only provide traffic stats and website information. You do not need to be listed in DMOZ to be listed in Alexa, your site should automatically be listed once it starts receiving traffic. To find your site in Alexa, just go to http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/example.com (Replace example.com with your own sites domain) Although Alexa is not a directory, it does have a list of "Top (500) sites" that are categorized in a directory like structure. For Alexa to accurately know which category your site belongs in, it "helps" if the site is listed in one or more of the most common directories EG BOTW, Yahoo!, Jigsaw, DMOZ etc. But before your site can show up in any one of Alexa's "Top Site" categories, it first needs to receive enough traffic to place it into the top 500 sites for that category. Hope that helps. Cheers James.
Um, excuse me, but www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Top is not a directory. It is just an ordered list of the top 500 sites in a given category. That's why when you try to submit a site from there, you are taken to DMOZ. Because Alexa is NOT a directory, they provide traffic stats and website information only. Your guess is as good as mine Cheers James
Then what do you call this: http://www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Top If you want to be in that Alexa directory, you do (which is what the poster was asking about)
Me thinks you need to go and look again. Then come back and tell us you were wrong. All the sites in each of those categories is the sites in the relevant DMOZ category Lets take this Alexa category: http://www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Top/Recreation/Guns/Shooting/Military Really looks like the DMOZ category http://www.dmoz.org/Recreation/Guns/Shooting/Military/ ...and while you are at the Alexa directory category --- do you notice the link at the bottom of the page to submit a site ---- it goes to DMOZ !!
I call that a list of the top sites in a given category. Just like this (Top 500 sites in a category) see what happens when you press next? If the sites also appear in the same category in the DMOZ directory is not the point. The OP "assumed" that DMOZ and Alexa directory were the same, he assumed wrong. Just like you are. Alexa is not a directory. That is why when you try to submit a site from within an Alexa category, you are taken to the DMOZ directory. Because Alexa is NOT a directory. There, I typed it slow and said it twice just so you get it Cheers James
Perhaps you can explain to the original poster how he can get his site listed in one of the categories at the Alexa Directory without being listed in DMOZ? I guarantee that you can not. It just does not happen. Can you show me some sites listed in the Alexa Directory that were not listed by DMOZ? I guarantee that the original poster can not get their site listed in the Alexa Directory without first being listed by DMOZ. Getting your site into "Alexa" and to get an Alexa ranking is a very different thing to being listed in the Alexa Directory, so I can see where you are confused. Hopefully you get it now.
1e100.net (DMOZ) 1e100.net (Alexa #79) lol... Mate, I think your the one that's confused. You keep referring to Alexa as a directory. Alexa is not a directory. It gives website information and traffic rankings. It can also sort those traffic rankings by category and country, but that does not make it a directory. If it were a directory, you would be able to submit sites to it... but as you yourself have mentioned several times in this thread that you can't because you just get redirected to the DMOZ directory, just proves my point. As for the OP being listed in an Alexa top sites sorted by category, If the category has less than 500 sites listed, its guaranteed. If it has more than that, there may be work to do. (Also as Agunt0oO points out, a DMOZ listing helps) To get listed in an Alexa top sites sorted by country, you will need to be in the top 100, which of course is a lot harder (but no DMOZ required) Good luck. Cheers James