Thread: Alexa and Dmoz, Biggest Joke

I think both Alexa and DMoz are showing pretty much misleading information to people.

Alexa ranks without spensing much words is the most stupid ranking system ever.

Unless you are an editor at DMoz/you can bribe a DMoz editor/your site is awefully good you can forget about getting listed at DMoz (in 60% cases). So many complaints against these guys. Worst is Google uses their data!

I personally do think both Alexa and DMoz is biggest joke online and should be declared dead.

Originally Posted by mastermind

I think both Alexa and DMoz are showing pretty much misleading information to people.

Alexa ranks without spensing much words is the most stupid ranking system ever.

Unless you are an editor at DMoz/you can bribe a DMoz editor/your site is awefully good you can forget about getting listed at DMoz (in 60% cases). So many complaints against these guys. Worst is Google uses their data!

I personally do think both Alexa and DMoz is biggest joke online and should be declared dead.

Well some sites have design faults, some has link faults, some have business strategy fault.

Alexa and Dmoz are the well-known and very popular in world wide web. They should think about their repo.

They have some uses, although there are sites with better information but not as famous as these are. So I guess you might have a good point out there.

I don't care about DMOZ... Alexa rank is just decoration..

Originally Posted by silveraden

I don't care about DMOZ... Alexa rank is just decoration..

Do you have the same thought while buying / selling the site?

DMOZ is definitely a collosal giant that has become a huge drain...

Nevertheless a link in DMOZ is still valued.

Google recently removed their recommendation to "submit to link directories" but they said they are not saying that those links are de-valued as of now, but just not something they will recommend anymore.

Oh and out of the millions of directories on the web, DMOZ is definitely still one of the most "authority" like directories...

Here is a case of bribing DMoz editor DMOZ editor wants $300 to list my site - WebProWorld

^^^ the above case has happened to one of my friend but he just asked 50$ he said fcuk of...

Originally Posted by krates98

^^^ the above case has happened to one of my friend but he just asked 50$ he said fcuk of...

really! think AOL should sell DMoz or make it better. plus Google should stop using it, make their own directory if they need.

Originally Posted by manik

really! think AOL should sell DMoz or make it better. plus Google should stop using it, make their own directory if they need.

Lol i told that before in others threads of dmoz i think ..... DMOZ from human edited should be converted to automated something like that it will be easy....

I would still use Alexa to check for traffic, but I agree that DMOZ is wack now since no one gets listed. Its awesome to be listed by them but I wouldnt work too hard on it.

They are big named portals in online world and everybody who surf net know about it.

They are bot stupid. Alexa considers page views and gives useless ranking.
DMOZ staff is corrupted and it takes ages to get approved.

seeing this thread I just checked alexa. webcosmoforums.com seem to have a rank of 52308 webcosmoforums.com - Traffic Details from Alexa

well that's a good rank for webcosmo but still these numbers don't really tell much about a forum.