joeduck - 5:14 am on Sep 24, 2005 (gmt 0)

Chris, best advice, stay away from 301's in any way shape or form, 404 the old pages,

I don't think I agree with this at all modemmike. I know of one case where the 301s worked perfectly for a site when they did a massive restructuring. The 301s carried their PR forward as Google had implied it would.

I agree with you and others that 301s *sometimes* cause problems or are not handled properly by search engines, but I think they are still the best way to go based on comments by many posters and search engineers from Google, Yahoo, and ASK at the WebmasterWorld conference.