How to benefit from dmoz listnings?

Confused...

[marttali]

Hi,

I recently registered 4 domains which are in dmoz dir, they have pr of 3 to 5. They are personal pages and left by the owners. All of them are lying in freehosts which dont provide php/mysql and not even perl, pure html is allowed and most likely javascript.
No i mostly likely should buy couple of decent domains and park them in good hosts. Now how to i take maximum out of those dmoz ones's - should i redirect them via 301,302 to those decent new ones (the ones im gonna buy) or should i just provide links from the dmoz ones to the new domains or maybe build content on the dmoz domains? What would you do?

[cbpayne]

As soon as DMOZ notice that the sites have changed content or redirect, they will be booted from DMOZ.

[cbpayne]

Should also have said that Google has some sort of expired domain penalty, so you are unlikely to get any benefit from the PR.

[marttali]

They are 404 already!
But still have pr.
Also there's no editor in that category (they are non english sites). The ownership even didn't change. The freehost where they lie works this way: The user name u choose becomes your website address, like www.the-name-of-the-freehost.com/your-user-name .

[marttali]

seems they got a pr boost in last week, pr 5-s all now.

[victor]

Ask at the OPD Public Forum. Tell 'em the URLs. They should give you a definitive answer :)

[coburn]

Hi Marttali - I'm a dmoz.org editor

You can forget whether or not the categories you want to submit to have resident editors. A meta-editor or other higher editor will pick up your application and process it.

Be careful about a perm redirection. Editors are wise to look for more than one occurence, and will mark your second copy out for future submissions. So I suggest that if you are to use a new domain - that you migrate fully and submit the new domain name, or go with the old. You'll not get to submit the same domain twice.

Choose you category wisely - else you'll likely end up waiting a long time for a response. ODP is a voluntary group, and we generally pay faster attention to good applications. So do yourself a favour and read the submission guidelines, read other entries already listed, and post accordingly. You may need to be patient, especially if you're submitting a business category - too many submissions for too few editors.

Here's the forum to ask questions at: [****.com...]

Good luck!

[flicker]

Expired domains will eventually be removed from the ODP. If you buy several of them and redirect them to your homepage, you will probably be getting yourself labelled as a spammer and you may find your main page removed as well. Don't say I didn't warn you. (-:

However, if you leave the old content up on the old sites as-is, and just add a link to your main site at the bottom of each of them, then they're undoubtedly fine to stay where they are, and you'd have the full benefit of that link (plus whatever you put in the anchor text). Personally, I wish more enterprising souls would do this with some of the valuable informational sites out there that keep expiring and disappearing forever. They'd get a nice link out of their sponsorship, and we'd all benefit from the information remaining available. (-:

[choster]

But don't link to pørn. Sites with links to adult content are listed in the Adult/ tree, but since editors encounter a lot of sinister domain hijacking, they will usually delete a "tainted" listing outright (no assumption can be made whatsoever that in 2 weeks those pages about snow leopards won't have turned into porn dialer central).

[marttali]

Thanks,

I thought about it myself and came to the same conclusion what flicker suggested.